Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
They've learnt how to stack cardboard boxes...
We're all doomed.
I thought the jumping one was pretty impressive. Balance is not an easy thing to master.
One Man to a Thousand Acres
- Thread starter DrWazzock
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I thought the jumping one was pretty impressive. Balance is not an easy thing to master.
one thing has occurred to me:-
There are a few members on here who can’t wait to replace everything with robots. The same members (well one in particular) have stated that there staff are members on here as well.
Let’s all hope for your sakes that those loyal employees don’t read this thread or you lads could have a revolt on your hands
Half of Staffordshire could be a wasteland for the next 10-20 years till these robots become comercially available
i saw that coming in the seventy's.
in NZ. we have queen street farmers ,who just farmed to get around tax in several different ways
the fact that farming is being treated like a professional business is why we have this tread.
the fact that the professional business model has seen produce prices drop seems to have been missed by a lot of farmers.
but not by the bankers
Some aspects of “swarm robots” I’m struggling to get my head around, although I’m happy to learn !!
Most crop protection products rely on being applied in a timely fashion to achieve the best results, in a typical season with short windows, how does transporting and setting up some knee high minionesque robots on a field by field basis achieve this ??
Same with drilling, I want to drill, say, 400 ha of WW in a 10 day period in the middle of October, 10 days with a 6m drill or months with a swarm of these things ??
All the above can only lead to lost yield ....
I can’t imagine unmanned devices being left to slap on pesticides next to houses and places of work ever being given the green light, too much room for error to ever be allowed in our ever more restrictive legislative world we now live in...
I think these swarms will have some successful niches in say, weeding high value salad or veg crops or targeting BG in a growing crop over a largish time period over winter, but I’m struggling to see how they are a replacement for tractors, sprayers and combines etc.
They may also work on large open plains of the US / Canada, Russia etc, but spread out UK farms with lots of roads and gates etc ??
I can imagine the fun the local towns Yooths could have on Friday night on the way home from the pub, tipping over robots and getting sprayed with Pendamethalin in the process
again the robots are a smoke screen for GE.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Haha - yes I've seen that & even shared it on FB in the past
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
As for commuting - I travel 20 km to go to work, sometimes over 100km . . .
at 50 i have seem farms go from 100 cows to a 1000 cows .we have farms in NZ that are worth so much on paper that no one seems to be able to buy them.
that is going on how long they take to sell
Wrong, my wording was bad. The industry is professional, most farming companies aren't so end up getting strung up.
that is why we have been printing money for several years .
in reality there should been a big crash that sent us back to horse's, but greed won out
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- pembrokeshire
as ive said before i used to go to sales in the east to buy my farm machinery they were crumbs off the rich mens tables unfortunately there crumbs are too big for me now
if i had a six straw walker combine it would not fit up the road besides the header trailer would not be able to turn off the road so we are limited , big is not always beautiful ,we are a bit like Drakes little ships we have to dart in and do what we can when we can what between the weather windows and the five acre fields we are hampered i was chatting to a man on his holls he was a farm manager from England he saw a field of barley no more than five acres in the middle of nowhere miles from another field of barley he could not believe someone would go there to cut it i cant imagine an army of robots gong down the road to do it in the future all this talk of robotics just baffles me i am a farmer i enjoy my work i struggle with electrics and don't like the office to sit in the office and control robots like some computer game does not appeal to me- Location
- pembrokeshire
nice outfit not autoreset ?2wd doesnt matter the front wheels wont have any traction when she is pullingYes, I didn't like to mention I still use a 100 hp tractor, and 4 furrow plough........and ummmm...errrrrr 2wd.
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- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
as ive said before i used to go to sales in the east to buy my farm machinery they were crumbs off the rich mens tables unfortunately there crumbs are too big for me now
Err, just curious from a Southern Hemisphere perspective?
Is it even worth growing 5 acres of barley in its own, considering the logistics / difficulty of moving gear all the time ? If it was a number of small fields all together I could understand it, but just 1 ?
Not having a go at you, but I just can't understand how 5 acres of barley ( as compared to pasture / cattle / sheep etc ) could generate enough return to make it worthwhile ?
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- Lincolnshire
I remember when our small town got a grant from the EU for IT.
Some of the money was spent on a computer terminal at the railway station where you could select a destination and it would tell you the train times. Nobody could think how else to spend the money but it had to spent "or we'd lose it."
There are only 2 destinations served by our station and only 5 trains per day. All of the necessary information was clearly displayed on an old fashioned notice board next to the terminal and could be viewed in an instant, whereas you had to work through menus in the terminal to tell you the bleedin obvious. It wasn't long before the terminal stopped working, as it was probably mistaken for a urinal, but it still proudly sports a plaque which reads something like "this equipment was funded by the European Union." A very fitting monument to the folly of over indulgence in IT and technology which will still be there, not working, like some kind of tombstone to our EU membership long after Brexit.
Some of the money was spent on a computer terminal at the railway station where you could select a destination and it would tell you the train times. Nobody could think how else to spend the money but it had to spent "or we'd lose it."
There are only 2 destinations served by our station and only 5 trains per day. All of the necessary information was clearly displayed on an old fashioned notice board next to the terminal and could be viewed in an instant, whereas you had to work through menus in the terminal to tell you the bleedin obvious. It wasn't long before the terminal stopped working, as it was probably mistaken for a urinal, but it still proudly sports a plaque which reads something like "this equipment was funded by the European Union." A very fitting monument to the folly of over indulgence in IT and technology which will still be there, not working, like some kind of tombstone to our EU membership long after Brexit.
Traffic dodger
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Spend it or lose it is a common theme in councils
A rare sunny day in crapweathershire i assume?Yes, I didn't like to mention I still use a 100 hp tractor, and 4 furrow plough........and ummmm...errrrrr 2wd.
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glasshouse
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- lothians
IT is the worst thing ever invented.
What is ?
Deerefarmer
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- Location
- USA
Impressive to say the least. Now send it out to the back 40 to check the gender of that new Angus calf put an ear tag in or whatever else While mama is watching
Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Impressive to say the least. Now send it out to the back 40 to check the gender of that new Angus calf put an ear tag in or whatever else While mama is watching
Bets on how long it'll take before that's possible. I'll go for 15 years.