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Not in agriculture, so I don't really know what I'm talking about, but... Isn't that pretty much everything that's wrong with our agriculture today? Isn't larg

Not in agriculture, so I don't really know what I'm talking about, but... Isn't that pretty much everything that's wrong with our agriculture today? Isn't large-scale monoculture, which this system obviously aims to support, a part of the environmental problems we're facing? The original article points to the unsustainable course of the current trend, so while the caterpillar system and the ability to roll on less land solves the immediate problem described, it fails once you look at the bigger picture, I think.

riskable 4y ago
There's no reason why a giant machine can't manage multiple different crops/plants at once. The problem in industrial agriculture isn't the geometric layout of straight rows/columns... It's the monoculture (and fertilizer/pesticide usage and soil compaction and plastic pollution!). It would be interesting to see a farm get a new voronoi-style layout each growing season.