So, I am one of those "young guys" in which this technology has evolved right with my growth. I started life on a simple dairy farm and it is still a simple dairy farm. I outgrew that and in high school started doing service work for dairy farms. They had the idea to use me to help with robotic milkers. That technology never took off in the volume they were expecting so I moved on to college and life.
I now do automation programming and full system set ups for large industrial plants. I think the one thing I have in my head that others in my position lack is the understanding of how to do it by hand. I program things so an Operator without any skills can follow the thought pattern. We get these machines that are programmed by some intern that played Xbox all day (or even worse, from Europe) and even for me it is quite frustrating! Automation is a great asset for the industrial world as it makes operations more efficient. The biggest issue I see with farming is, breakdowns or false issues have a huge impact when you're trying to plant / harvest in a very narrow window.
Back to that simple dairy farm. My dad will never own anything like that. I remember the first day he used the mouse on a computer. However, the family has recent accepted a program which monitors the herd and provides statistical analysis. To me that is a common sense application to use (heck I could program it) but to my dad it is vo-do. If you never "used it" its very hard to just suddenly "embrace it". My hats off to the older generation who have been able to catch on.
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