For the Love of Farming

 People who live in the city are often unaware of how much in the forefront of technology farmers have been. I'm quite certain most of this is because "those rubes" have historically been unconcerned with city manners, city schedules, and such things as haute cuisine et couture.  Instead, they focused on more pragmatic things, like planting, harvesting, transportation and storage of crops, like telecommunication and meteorology, like chemistry and gene sequencing, and so on. 


I won't go into a long rant about this, though, because others have said it much better.  Instead, I'll just share this spiffy pic of an earlier version of advanced technology in agriculture, circa 1920-25:

In less than 20 years, the horse would be fully retired from the average farm's labor pool and would become a luxury pet. 


100 years later, the tractor can drive itself, guided by GPS and a basic computer program.