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Robots in Farming takes readers on a sweeping journey through one of the most profound transformations in the ten-thousand-year history of agriculture the arrival of intelligent machines in the fields, barns, and growing systems that feed the world. From the autonomous tractors navigating vast grain fields without a driver to the laser robots killing weeds one at a time in the English countryside, from the milking machines that let dairy cows choose their own schedule to the vertical farms growing lettuce in former office buildings fourteen floors above city streets, this book examines what is actually happening on the ground not the marketing version, but the muddy, complicated, genuinely extraordinary reality. It asks the questions that the technology industry tends to set aside: what happens to the farmer when the tractor drives itself, whether smallholder farmers in Kenya and India will ever be able to afford the tools transforming agriculture in California and the Netherlands, and whether a farming system optimised for efficiency can also be one that sustains the land, the communities, and the deep human knowledge that have always been agriculture's most important inheritance. Drawing on four years of research across twelve countries, hundreds of conversations with farmers, engineers, agronomists, and economists, and visits to farms at every point on the spectrum from ancient to futuristic, the book refuses both the utopian enthusiasm and the fearful alarm that dominate most writing about agricultural technology. It is honest about what the robots can do and equally honest about what they cannot about the irreplaceable knowledge that lives in a farmer who has walked the same land for thirty years, about the ecological complexity that no sensor array has yet fully captured, and about the political and economic choices that will determine whether this technological revolution serves the many or the few. Authoritative, humane, and impossible to put down, Robots in Farming is the essential guide to understanding how the food on your table is being grown and how it will be grown by the time your children are old enough to ask the same question.

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