Will technology replace the farmer?

INDIANOLA, Neb. - How smart are our “IT” people in the United States? I’d say pretty darn intelligent. Farmer Tom has a cool monitor in his tractor when he plants and when he combines his crops. Although they may not be the newest or the best available, they are still pretty smart.

They can give information like bushels per acre, seed moisture, seed population, and a whole lot more. I think the goal may be to eliminate the farmer altogether but I’m thinking I’ll be dead and gone before we must worry about it.

Of course, everyone knows that these people work for NASA as well as other corporations and have the technology to send ships into space, control long-distance missiles, and many other things almost too advanced for the regular “Joe” to understand. I refer to my last column when I mentioned voting machines.

I can’t believe no one has said as much in the media or in the current administration. Oh duh! That’s because it’s not supposed to get fixed. There simply can’t be that many ignorant people that voted for a 50-year career criminal politician with dementia.

I haven’t heard of any new prototype tractors that can backup and park by themselves but if cars and trucks are doing it successfully, I’m sure that is what is coming down the line. As trains did away with the need for a caboose and have almost all electronically controlled engines, the new machines are going to take the need for human operators out of the picture. I wonder if that means we are all going to be out of a job at some point, except for maybe things requiring manual labor.

Who will want to do those jobs? Just a thought in our society today.

Have a good one!