When I was involved in the metalcasting industry, I often felt like a voice in the wilderness in urging foundries to stop commoditizing the engineered cast iron and steel components they were manufacturing by selling them by the pound. I don’t know how much good it did.
As civilizations became more industrialized and populations moved to cities, the need for a large scale storage and transportation infrastructure became necessary to feed the growing urban populations. This motivated the development of the modern storage and logistics technologies that are prevalent in today's agricultural industries from farm to fork.
The trend towards further automation of processes — coupled with intelligent data management systems to optimize the regulation and control of equipment, logistics, documentation, quality assurance and traceability — is proceeding in agriculture.
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There was plenty of technology on display at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., a few weeks ago. Farm Equipment editor Mike Lessiter caught up with Monarch Tractor’s John Issacson and got his take on the top 5 applications in autonomy right now.