[Photo: Rasmus Landgreen via Unsplash] In 1870, agriculture was a source of employment for about half the U.S. workforce; now just 2% of the population produces food for a living, according to government figures. As large machines have increasingly done the work of ploughing and harvesting crops and tending to livestock, farms have become ever more human-free. And what of the future? They may provide barely any jobs at all. The new age of farm machines include weeding robots , self-driving tractors , and crop- spraying drones . The drivers: higher productivity, an aging human workforce (principal farmers are […]
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