An electric tractor would make perfect sense for us, but it'll be a few years till there's an 85-100hp orchard tractor available, and it'll be way outside our budget. I reckon fruit farms will be early adopters.
agile and half a company of horses+ all day+ easy to use for pull or power
a potentially nice tangent for the leccy car folk
Shane
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Posted: Fri Jun 11, 21 2:45 pm Post subject:
Might not be a tangent - rather an established product line. I'm sure it won't be long before the massive agricultural conglomerates are rushing to show their green credentials (to avoid having to address issues such as sprawling monoculture, soil erosion, run off into rivers, methane from cows, etc.), so electrifying their machine fleets will probably already be on their minds.
For sure Shane, but part of the solution to feeding the planet is going to be industrial (lab) production of meat, and vertical farming (basically a warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with trays of plants under LED lamps, hydroponically grown).
I reckon the advances in food tech in the next 20 years will be as great as all those since Homo Sapiens emerged as a species. I wonder if your starter culture is a kosher cow whether the "beef" produced from it will be kosher too. One of the more trivial ethical issues that will have to be dealt with in the coming decades.
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