Ocean farms?

What idiot thing do you think of farmers

Mmmmm algae

A single farmer can do several square leagues

Worth of labd

10 acres; 1 day ; 1 farmer

that IS automation

America isn't a tucking subsistence farming country

wheat doesn't harvest itself

They mechanize everhthibg

yes it is called a tractor

10 acres; 1 day ; 1 farmer; 33 rules upheld, the next is about to get ploughed

Well tractor and

someone still has to operate it

Mechanical reapers

exactly

@Lucienne d'Anwyl - Land in the United States is cheap. You can buy an acre for $1,500 or less in a lot of places, so given a choice between $100,000 in productivity investments or $50,000 in additional land, both yielding the same increase in food production, pretty much everyone chooses to buy more land.

Techoreaping

acually with some newer equipment, it will harvest itself

See those dense areas, they're some of the few plains on the Japanese home islands. Hence niggas live there

automated combines

Technorape

But that isn't true

Everyone chooses both

Because with mechanization

it's all machinery that allows quick planting and harvesting of acres and acres very quickly

You can afford to get a high yield from a small amount of labd

The only other expensive treatment would be feryilizwrs

there are limits

That most likely literally destroy the soil

yup

Is this how the French say it? Labd?

Is all that blue area really mountainous?

Topo map of Japan. Not much farmland space

hence why vertical farming isn't practical

Terrace farming

Makes mountains oractical

You can get a very high yield from a very small amount of land, but the infrastructure and labor are expensive enough that most people don't bother. Why the fuck would anyone do that, when you can just go out and buy another 100 acres?

I live in a similar country that has fuck all farmland

Not like they aren't experienced in it

you still need land and lots of it to use automatic farm methods