I hate to break it to you all, but modern farming means to work a LOT with computers. At home for the "paper"work which is mostly digital, on the field with proprietary systems in tractors and other machines needed. Not even mentioning the IT work involved in herding cattle or chicken. You cannot run a modern farm without being an IT person. And yes, that's also true for ecological farming.
Now if we all would join agriculture to create open source and open standards … and open seeds …
Unrelated, UK farmer Edmund Sutcliffe is building a decentralised app (REGRU) to improve farming provenance and supply chain integrity:
An early version of #REGRU is available to try (along with several others) as part of a competition to kick-start apps on the #Autonomi #p2p network.
Hello everyone in the Autonomi Community! I’m @Edmund_Sutcliffe and the founder of the REGRU Marketplace, an online marketplace where customers will buy products and trace them all the way back to the verified regenerative farms they originally came from. The Problem(s) Agriculture, the production of food and fibre form the Earth’s land and seas, is responsible for the majority of ecological destruction that happens in the world today. Customers are unconscious of the impact of the purcha...
Jan Wildeboer 😷
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