Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
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Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
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Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#2I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of dollars of very high-tech machinery from my understanding.
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#3I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of doll…
Why would you need to?
Western agriculture as you point out is very different to somewhere like in the article.
You fit the product to the market not the market to the product.
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#4I often refer back to Open Source Ecology when agricultural hardware is brought up: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#5I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of doll…
A 2.5 acre farm in the US is a hobby farm. You might get a bit of income from canning or selling exotic meat, but I cannot imagine 2.5 acres of anything being enough for a basic income to cover land taxes, equipment, and basic essentials for the family.
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#6I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of doll…
Why would you need to? Western agriculture as you point out is very different to somewhere like in the article. You fit the product to the market not the market to the product.
We definitely still need very large farms with big machines to feed the world; but nowadays, with climate problems, droughts, smaller and diverse farms resist better, are more productive by surface, have a better quality of soil, better quality of food, they are literally carbon sinks, it just requires more manual work
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#7I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of doll…
> 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability
Smaller farms -may- have less vast monoculture sustainability issues. However, how do the 2.5 acre farms achieve the efficiencies that scale affords the massive farms in terms of water, energy, and fertilizer use?
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#8I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of doll…
A 2.5 acre farm in the US is a hobby farm. You might get a bit of income from canning or selling exotic meat, but I cannot imagine 2.5 acres of anything being enough for a basic income to cover land taxes, equipment, and basic essentials for the family.
If you have a scroll through the episodes of Country Calendar (https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/country-calendar) you'll find examples of small farms definitely produce enough to make a good living.
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#9I'm all for improving the success of local agricultural efforts, and the 2.5-acre farms held by many people in the article seems like an improvement over the gigantic thousand-acre ones here in terms of sustainability, but it's hard for me to generalize how something like small scale thresher manufacturing would work in America. The average commercial farm in the US is a much larger operation and has millions of doll…
A 2.5 acre farm in the US is a hobby farm. You might get a bit of income from canning or selling exotic meat, but I cannot imagine 2.5 acres of anything being enough for a basic income to cover land taxes, equipment, and basic essentials for the family.
Yeah you are right. One of the most profitable crops is cherry tomatoes and you can make $1400 per acre on a good year, $900 on average. Saffron, with optimal yields at the most expensive prices per lb, will get you $125k from 2.5 acres.
My dream is to have a farm with enough crops to cover my food & maybe sell a little extra. Out of interest does anyone know a good place in Europe where that's possible for a good price?
Re: Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech hardware
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you need to? Western agriculture as you point out is very different to somewhere like in the article. You fit the product to the market not the market to the product.
We definitely still need very large farms with big machines to feed the world; but nowadays, with climate problems, droughts, smaller and diverse farms resist better, are more productive by surface, have a better quality of soil, better quality of food, they are literally carbon sinks, it just requires more manual work
> it just requires more manual work
Oh, is that all :-)