Well, the automated farmer certainly kicked the ladder for everyone else. Try and start a farm now, you can't compete without serious investment. The high tec

Well, the automated farmer certainly kicked the ladder for everyone else. Try and start a farm now, you can't compete without serious investment. The high tech farms will send their overabundant produce 2000 miles and still undercut you, while profiting. It's impressive, really, but it does put many local farms and would be farmers (lots of land, no other skills/ideas) out of a job.