Cody Nelson

"I think future equipment will band apply seed, chemistry…and fertilizer in 1 pass and use plants to reduce inputs." A major focus for mid sized family farms/ entrepreneurs, and advocates of agricultural/ rural restoration need to be working on is equipment and technology for alternative production systems and crops like what @jasonmauck1, @zebulousprime, and @Mathew_Winters1 are doing (not to mention yours truly at rileyfamilyfarms.com) Most of the impressive Ag technological development in the US the past 50 - 70 years has been focused on how to more efficiently scale #2 yellow corn production and other cheap calories for export. How can we farm more acres/ produce more tonnage with fewer people? Which has led folks to conclude that technology and scale/ centralization automatically go hand in hand But you tend to hit what you're aiming at. If we reorient towards a Distributist/ Christian localism mindset that understands: -- Large scale industrial agriculture has built major fortunes, dramatically reduced famine, and allowed a handful of people to produce food so that the rest of the productive economy could create the amazing advancements we've seen in modern civilization. -- Small and micro farms can produce high quality food for very localized communities -- But the "agriculture of the middle"; family farms are what built small town America, and arguably what built the America we know, and should be preserved @DamianPMason, @AdamLasch1 , @JRcowfarmer