local, organic, small-scale farming is certainly practical, and it's also imperative for a sustainable model to support our immense population. So is automation

local, organic, small-scale farming is certainly practical, and it's also imperative for a sustainable model to support our immense population. So is automation, and greenhouses, and transporting food from far away places. What is incompatible with a sustainable future is conventional, factory farming, where the fields are awash in toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and supplemented with bare fertilizers manufactured using toxic processes out of fossil fuels or harvested from unsustainable sources. That can't go on. Fortunately organic holistic farming methods produce higher yield and healthier foods, and are compatible with the best and highest tech in automation, greenhouses, and etc, and increasingly the old and new tech is coming together on the small scale, local farm.