The Future Of Farming Is… Robots?

Advanced technology is rapidly taking over agriculture, which will eventually deliver the entire food chain into the hands of error-prone Technocrats who will only say “Oops!” when a system fails while people starve. ⁃ TN EditorIn a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40-feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bent to place a small white robot at the edge of a row marked 103. T