3 Robot Farmhands Disrupting Rural Life

While food prices continue to rise, there is no denying the need for affordable investments that will keep the costs of food production down. As we see prices rise in the stores, most of us, having never produced our own food, have no clue what it takes on the other end of the pipeline to bring our food to the table, especially in a highly industrialized system. What we don’t often consider when we complain about our long and expensive grocery receipts is the labor, fuel, packaging, logistics and much more that takes place behind the scenes to fill up our overflowing supermarket displays with shiny and colorful produce from around the world.

By Charlotte Shea on Oct 24, 2016 7:00 AM. 4 min read time