(May 22, 2017 06:44 PM)C C Wrote: They'll soon be gathering dust like the rest of us obsolete automatons that lack zombie efficiency (unless migrants are brimming with robotic & AI maintenance techs).
With Farm Labor Getting Scarcer, Big U.S. Farms Are Preparing To Turn To Robots
https://www.forbes.com/sites/currentacco...to-robots/
your right on the money of the current issues there.
mono culture mega farms....
im fairly sure that the adjacent data from
CCD
study provides enough evidence to put mono culture mega farms to bed.
The associated cost of monopoly transport systems with price fixing at both ends of the market ensures that instability of the system.
while innitial investment may be ok, the system cant be maintained & will lead to collapse of the consumer confidence whichin turn leverages the marginal new investment return to create enough bankruptcy of farms to ensure consumers are very displeased with the leading brand enabling brand switching at massive cost to new investment.
sustainability requires smaller farms more widely spread to prevent market collapse around any single fruit, vegetable or grain.
The leveraging of cost to profit by control of farm gate prices is just about dead in the water.
thus the life & death of sustainable business practices at the common mercy of human frailties dictates a profit & loss variable requiring flexible cost to market & the machinery cost is by far excessive and prohibitive to the basic model of new & recycling investment returns on the manditory flexible side of the market productivety model.
of coarse the obvious alternative by forcing the market into a machine hiring services only cost effective model simply enables large scale raqueteering.