Ask HN: Why isn’t SV tackling fully autonomous Ag?

While everyone is congratulating AMZN and GOOG and FAANGs taking work remote, why aren’t we looking at our Ag. 1. Most of our food comes from outside USA. 2. Mid west grows corn and soy and not for human consumption. 3. We can’t live on lettuce and strawberries. 4. We need grains and rice and pulses and lentils grown here for food security. 5. We can’t grow a lot of stuff indoors. 6. With semi autonomous indoor systems, the inputs, plastic, lights, operations need maint and people. And not by anyone but by those who are trained specifically for growing indoors. 7. Compare this with outdoor Ag or hoop house natural farming where anyone can drop a seed, water or harvest or play a bot like a game to do the same. It’s a closed circle. What we need is small local mostly autonomous universal tool carrying platforms that use minimal input and even less manual labour. We need to rely on physics now to replace manual labour and not chemistry for inputs or math to collect data. This isn’t possible on large scale and can be easily done as small swarms of Ag bots to grow food, not commodities. Every acre can feed 20-40 people of nutrient and calorie dense food if it grows vegetables, fruits, honey, greens and some small grains . Not including oil or wheat/rice etc. rice can also be grown indoors, but it’s a tad involved. During an emergency: honey, eggs, dairy, fruits, greens, vegetables, seeds/pulses/lentils/small grains and commodities like rice/wheat etc should be easy to grow. And then there is vat grown protein and algae/yeast based foods. I am probably getting carried away here. Anyways: TL:DR; small farms can produce a lot of food in small spaces if we have swarmable general purpose Ag bots to automate soil Ag. But we don’t have any. Can have get some please? Signed, small acreage food farmer.