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The article does say that without the GPS service, they are 4% less efficient (in terms of slightly overlapping swathes of seeds/fertilizer/whatever) and this i
by MarkusWandel 4y ago
The article does say that without the GPS service, they are 4% less efficient (in terms of slightly overlapping swathes of seeds/fertilizer/whatever) and this is enough to be uncompetitive. Back when I was a kid on a family farm, accurate within 4% would have been great (with manually driven tractors)!
- causi 4y agoI'm willing to bet your accuracy was better than 4% across an entire field.
- salawat 4y agoSeems like this level of hyper-optimization being required out the gate is more a problem in and of itself. Call me a luddite; but if we're at the point that one needs bloody GPS to remain competitive, I'm beginning to question the resilience of our food production system as integrated with the global market. Everyone needs food. Period. If you can't get that food from where you grow to somewhere that needs it, that sounds more like the problem that needs solving. Then again, I think practically every problem reduces to logistics problem if you dig deep enough.