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Introducing new technologies is difficult with the supposedly highly educated American farmers. Reality is, farmers worldwide are awfully anti-intellectual with
by luckydata 7y ago
Introducing new technologies is difficult with the supposedly highly educated American farmers. Reality is, farmers worldwide are awfully anti-intellectual with a strong contrarian streak and rarely listen to science, even if ironically science has given them their way of life in the form of fertilizers, GMOs etc...
Source: I worked for an ag-tech company and I will never EVER have anything to do again with anything that has to do with that world.
- briandear 7y agoAmerican farmers are anti-intellectual and rarely listen to science? Citation is really needed, because that’s not what reality shows. It’s very true that farmers are risk adverse, but that’s for good reason: it takes years for “discoveries” to be vetted and people aren’t going to literally bet the farm on trendy tech until it’s proven. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/farming-technology-agriculture.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/farming-technolo...
- mycall 7y agoAmerican farmers are extremely innovative, today and throughout history. Hell, they invented TV.
- luckydata 7y agoAmerican farmers are grease monkeys, they like big machines but know approx. jack squat about agronomy. If I could have a dollar for all the nitrogen farmers waste because they don't know how to manage soil properly I would be a goddamn trillionaire.