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Reforming agriculture through more sophisticated mechanization
John Payne
10 Dec 2011
Historically, at least since the mechanization of agriculture began in earnest, there have been two primary measures of agricultural productivity, the amount that could be grown on a given acreage and...
Cultibotics as a quality of life issue
John Payne
26 Jul 2009
Your typical farm raises at most a few crops, frequently only one. Because it's what I know, and because it's in practically every processed food you can buy, let's take wheat as an example.
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Why use robots, round 2
John Payne
13 Sep 2007
One measure by which conventional agriculture likes to judge itself, the output per man hour, or, put another way, the percentage of the population directly engaged in crop production, is seriously mi...
