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Automation on the farm has revolutionized our production of food. In 1870 it took 47% of the US workforce to grow our foodstuffs. By 1970, the farm population had shrunk to 4% of the total. Since 1970 farming has outstripped manufacturing in productivity gain so that by the mid- 1980s our food was being produced by a mere 3% of our workforce - and they were creating unwieldy surpluses at that.
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© 1989 Joseph F Engelberger
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Engelberger, J.F. (1989). Farming. In: Robotics in Service. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1099-7_12
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