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I'm genuinely not trying to treat it as if it's a business right away. It's just, I don't know, maybe I'm too close to farming to get my head out of it. I'm a
by Loughla 10y ago
I'm genuinely not trying to treat it as if it's a business right away. It's just, I don't know, maybe I'm too close to farming to get my head out of it.
I'm a 4th generation farmer in my spare time. The variables required in agriculture are just too many for something like this, is my opinion. I get it, farming isn't immune from technology, but this just seems like over-engineering a problem.
- beardicus 10y ago> The variables required in agriculture are just too many for something like this, is my opinion. I'm certain there is a lot of complex knowledge locked up in farmers' brains that most folks wouldn't even think of. The same is true for doctors though, and it doesn't seem foolish that folks are creating expert systems to help with complicated diagnostics and such. Surely the wisdom of farmers can be codified and emulated reasonably well by software. Further, maybe this is only limited to a subset of agriculture. It doesn't need to apply to every crop type to be useful. It's probably dumb to grow 100 acres of wheat this way. Perhaps it's useful for highly-controlled small beds of high-value high-labor-input vegetables or such?
- daveguy 10y agoI would love to see a shared open database of environment and care parameters. Imagine all of the ounces of water per week per watt of sunlight type optimizations. Identifying okra that is ready to pick would be nice -- the maximum size for tenderness and plant health. A shared open db of farming parameters would be awesome.