| junk fun - 3/14/2024 23:16
You'd be foolish to predict the future 20 years out. The best you can do is present some possibilities and your personal opinion on the most likely.
Autonomous and likely smaller equipment seems likely. Another thing that seems likely to spread is native predators, causing less grazing livestock and more confinement. Unless or until drones trickle down from Armenia/Ukraine to the farm level. Predators have a couple recent new enemies, the thermal rifle scope, and the rage of hunting from helicopters. My son just got back a couple weeks ago from a 3 day helicopter hunt outside of Corpus Christie, Texas. He and 3 other guys killed 369 hogs, 39 coyotes, and a couple Bobcats. The pilot admitted, it’s becoming harder as time goes on to find critters for paying customers. Some farms they flew were void of any targets already, been shot out. Around here, night hunting for coyotes with thermal scopes has brought dozens of new guys pursuing coyotes with thermal scopes, that have never hunted them before in the long held traditional methods. Hunting with dogs is also fairly recent phenomenon. Unless the coyote find a hole to hide in, he’s just about guaranteed to be having his last day once some good dogs cut his track. |
What does the future of farming look like?
