Sean Sundberg and Chase Schapansky of US company Guss stand by the group’s Global Unmanned Spray System at the Nampo grounds near Bothaville. (Photo: Supplied) In the US, the rise of the tractor between 1910 and 1960 replaced an estimated 24 million draught animals, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Now, more than a century after the tractor first gained traction, automation and digitisation threaten to put many agricultural workers out to pasture.
In a recent blog post on this issue, Aaron Smith, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of California, phrases it this way: A […]
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