{"id":29403,"date":"2016-08-26T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/robots-inherit-the-farm"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:45:24","slug":"robots-inherit-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/robots-inherit-the-farm","title":{"rendered":"Robots Inherit the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-inherit-the-farm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the US during the early 2000s there was an old political term for low skilled jobs, politicians called these jobs \u201cthe jobs that no one in America wanted.\u201d Well, we now can start seeing the slogan by politicians as \u201cthe jobs that Robots can do for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The focus of automation in farming has shifted from assisting humans to replacing them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fac-fcc.ca\/en\/ag-knowledge\/ag-economist\/the-automation-of-agriculture-part-II-farming-with-robots.html\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-04-23\/robots-replacing-japan-s-farmers-seen-preserving-food-security\">The average age of Japanese farmers is 67.<\/a> Across all developed countries, the average age of growers is 60. Robotics and automation technologies are just now reaching the stage where agricultural robots can replace human farmers for many or most crop growing tasks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/25\/robots-inherit-the-farm\/\">https:\/\/alfinnextlevel.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/25\/robots-inherit-the-farm\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US during the early 2000s there was an old political term for low skilled jobs, politicians called these jobs \u201cthe jobs that no one in America wanted.\u201d Well, we now can start seeing the slogan by politicians as \u201cthe jobs that Robots can do for free.\u201d The focus of automation in farming has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60617,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions\/60617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}