Trump Effect: Farmers Turn from Foreign Pickers to Automation

[rangerrebew]

   
Trump Effect: Farmers Turn from Foreign Pickers to Automation

Farm automation has been progressing along, just like uses of smart machines in other industries, but agbots may now be getting an extra boost. Apparently President Trump’s crackdown on illegal border crossings has decreased the supply of foreign pickers, so farmers are looking more favorably at tech solutions. The transition would have happened anyway, but immigration enforcement is speeding it up a bit.

Not only are there are robot weeders, pickers and cultivators, but cows can now walk into an automated milker when they feel the need.


http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2017/11/11/trump-effect-farmers-turn-from-foreign-pickers-to-automation/

[Cripplecreek]

So basically they're doing what farmers have been doing since farming began. Always looking for more efficient and productive means.