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Based on your post and your messages, it looks like you're saying that robots and automation could help small farms most by reducing labor costs. So it sounds
by rpeden 9y ago
Based on your post and your messages, it looks like you're saying that robots and automation could help small farms most by reducing labor costs.
So it sounds to me like the kind of automation that's needed will be very task specific. You might find it easier to connect with the the folk by describing some of the specific laborious tasks you'd like to automate. That will get their tech brains thinking about specific solutions to your specific problems.
Perhaps start by picking 2-5 tasks that are repetitive and take up a lot of your time or require you to hire lots of people. Some of them might end up being quick wins that wouldn't be too hard/expensive to automate. Providing the tech folks with a list to choose from will help them focus on the items that they know they can solve in a reasonable amount of time.
- jelliclesfarm 9y agoI have about seven repetitive manual tasks that would be easily accomplished by automation. I will refine it further and translate with maybe visual snippets. I was thinking of maybe showing it as graphic novel strip because I feel like a lot of times farmer's and engineers speak a diff 'mental' language. But taking a ripper shank to compacted ground illustrated with a 'thwack' inside a serrated thought bubble can explain more than if I explain in English. The knives and rippers and v-shanks we sometimes use as implements is very difficult to explain in words. A lot of times, farmers just tinker together stuff in their shop to suit their particular soil condition or that year's weather challenge.
- jelliclesfarm 9y agoThank you.