I think that anyone that stands still will have time or technology passing them by.
Look at it this way.... Do you really thing you could make a go in any type of farming today using your grandfathers bushels per acre; acres one man can handle. You could even say the same thing about milk per cow or cows milked by one person. I would assume your answer is NO. So how can you expect your grandkids to make it in farming using your bushels per acre; acres one man can handle.
There may be a spot for a small farmer using outdated equipment; but just like the big box stores have run main street small town store owners out of business the BTO farmers will run small time farmers out little by little. What does a small time farmer have to sell that a BTO can not offer. It sure is not quality of product. The only thing I can think of is a small operator can farm small tracks of land better than a BTO.
There was a piece on the AG show a few weeks back about tractors that drive themselves and equipment that reads the health of the plant as it passes over it to put down the exact amount of fertilize or spray that each plant needed rather than working on a field average. They showed 1 guy running a lead tractor. 2 other tractors were just following the lead tractor so 1 operator was doing the work of 3 people. You have to wonder (while this new equipment may cost mega bucks) how is a farmer to compete with a neighbor that is doing the work of 3 people and saving cost on fertilizer and spray by only using what is required.
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