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This is wrong. Is farming productivity due to machines or labor? Take a wild guess.
by aapl88889 4y ago
This is wrong. Is farming productivity due to machines or labor? Take a wild guess.
- defrost 4y agoGood weather and smart farmers .. I live in a productive rural district with high exports; dumb people and million dollar machines don't produce anything of note. People that know the ground, know the past variations, know their seed stock, etc. produce good returns over decadal periods, as yet machiness and AI alone don't match that. Now, give it a few years...
- aapl88889 4y agoWell you are wrong. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/03/05/look-agricultural-productivity-growth-united-states-1948-2017 https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/03/05/look-agricultural...
- jxf 4y agoI hope you're not suggesting that farming is easy and that you just need the right machines. Otherwise, your argument is that a 15th-century peasant possesses all the necessary skills, education, and training to operate a modern farm, and they just need the right equipment.
- aapl88889 4y agoI hope you know that farmers who transitioned to these machines after employing labor decades ago