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Approach it from the numbers: You need 1 big farm buying one $2 million dollar unit, Or you need 100 small farms each buying one $20,000 unit. If you c
by sova 9y ago
Approach it from the numbers:
You need 1 big farm buying one $2 million dollar unit,
Or you need 100 small farms each buying one $20,000 unit.
If you can make a compelling case that there are many such $20,000 units (for example) that could be researched and invested in, and you have some strong ideas on devices and their network interplay, you could be onto something very strong.
- jelliclesfarm 9y agoThat's the cost of a small tractor already. It takes additional implements and man hours to operate it. If a 20k base module can exist like ..say..an iPhone and there is a library of tasks that can downloaded..like say a kindle book. I think we can see cheap tech. Let's say: clay soil + Swiss chard + zone 8A + September-December. We know enough to come up with a crop plan. As it's a shared library, with time, we can get whatever disease or pests come to that zone at that time of the year. What nutrients need to be added. Soil probes in the base module can figure out what's deficient and we can know what to supplement the existing soil with..connected with gps, weather data and past years pests issues/crop plans, you have a reasonably proficient farm assistant that can go into a mapped field and recognize the chard row..and scan for bugs or do a soil probe every 6 weeks or check if it's ready for harvest and predict how much will be ready for market every week etc. it's possible.