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<blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 4478628" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>I was thinking about this scale thing this morning. You would be able to get vast economies of scale on the production side of things as the same unit would work on all farms. I think also it could help improve the efficiency of smaller fields too which are currently less suited to huge machinery.</p><p></p><p>Benefits too in that small things don't have quite the same safety worries in the event of machinery malfunction. Gone awry they couldn't flatten a nearby house or take down an electricity pylon. Also, if one broke down in the middle of the night, the rest could carry on and the farmer doesn't have to haul his backside out of bed to fix one massive machine that can't be left broken for long.</p><p></p><p>I still can't quite get my head around the idea of multiple small units. It seems as if they should spend nearly all of their time going back and forth to fill up with spray / seed. However, looking for analogues in the wild, I suppose bees do it like this. But then why have bees got it right whereas deer (a huge thing that supports itself and doesn't need to return to base) haven't?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feldspar, post: 4478628, member: 386"] I was thinking about this scale thing this morning. You would be able to get vast economies of scale on the production side of things as the same unit would work on all farms. I think also it could help improve the efficiency of smaller fields too which are currently less suited to huge machinery. Benefits too in that small things don't have quite the same safety worries in the event of machinery malfunction. Gone awry they couldn't flatten a nearby house or take down an electricity pylon. Also, if one broke down in the middle of the night, the rest could carry on and the farmer doesn't have to haul his backside out of bed to fix one massive machine that can't be left broken for long. I still can't quite get my head around the idea of multiple small units. It seems as if they should spend nearly all of their time going back and forth to fill up with spray / seed. However, looking for analogues in the wild, I suppose bees do it like this. But then why have bees got it right whereas deer (a huge thing that supports itself and doesn't need to return to base) haven't? [/QUOTE]
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