More farms are turning to automation amid labor shortages

Image credit: Amelia K. Bates / Grist. Article by Ayurella Horn-Muller & Melina Walling. Grist – October 28, 2024. This article is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist.

Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his 5-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet. […]

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