comparing John deere with apple is another proverbial pears vs apples trope. practically no other industry other than IT experience this meteoric rise in the last 30 or 50 years, but this happened with railroads, steel and oil in the IXX and XX centuries . In this link you may found some ideas about growing: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/some-thoughts-on-the-future-of-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
in the mean time, i agree with you that agricultural machinery could fruitful apply recent advances in automation and biology. I cannot assure it may turn this industry into a world giant, but it could make some dents. There is big variability in markets, size of farms, products sown, production cultures, capital availability and everything else when we talk about agriculture. This is why it is more common to have smaller companies serving local markets in practically all type of machines.
I think there is a possibility to have many smaller machines working in a pack doing the job of a harvester, a pest control spray, a seeder. those machines, simpler and cheaper that common monsters, could be flexibly adapted to very different roles. The same platform used in seeding may become a weed control machine by changing accessories and tools.
in some ways my inspiration is the Personal computer ecosystem, where very small manufacturers supply different parts of a computer. This change turns a mainframe of a minicomputer into something everybody could afford
Great thoughts Manuel - thank you. I will have a look at the link and see what I can learn. I love the personal computer analogy, I'll do some thinking on that.
Manuel I like this analogy. If combines, harvesters (etc) are the mainframe, then I see bipedal humanoid robots (or broadly speaking small-scale dexterous adaptable automation) as the personal computer. Software becomes the small-parts ecosystem. What do you think?
Hi Sam!
comparing John deere with apple is another proverbial pears vs apples trope. practically no other industry other than IT experience this meteoric rise in the last 30 or 50 years, but this happened with railroads, steel and oil in the IXX and XX centuries . In this link you may found some ideas about growing: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/some-thoughts-on-the-future-of-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
in the mean time, i agree with you that agricultural machinery could fruitful apply recent advances in automation and biology. I cannot assure it may turn this industry into a world giant, but it could make some dents. There is big variability in markets, size of farms, products sown, production cultures, capital availability and everything else when we talk about agriculture. This is why it is more common to have smaller companies serving local markets in practically all type of machines.
I think there is a possibility to have many smaller machines working in a pack doing the job of a harvester, a pest control spray, a seeder. those machines, simpler and cheaper that common monsters, could be flexibly adapted to very different roles. The same platform used in seeding may become a weed control machine by changing accessories and tools.
in some ways my inspiration is the Personal computer ecosystem, where very small manufacturers supply different parts of a computer. This change turns a mainframe of a minicomputer into something everybody could afford
Great thoughts Manuel - thank you. I will have a look at the link and see what I can learn. I love the personal computer analogy, I'll do some thinking on that.
Manuel I like this analogy. If combines, harvesters (etc) are the mainframe, then I see bipedal humanoid robots (or broadly speaking small-scale dexterous adaptable automation) as the personal computer. Software becomes the small-parts ecosystem. What do you think?