Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from Tractor & Farming History
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My grandfather became disabled during WW2 and buying a tractor saved his farm. My grandmother shocked the older people in the village by driving it. A woman *grasp* driving a tractor! 😲
Omg your voice over addressing the missed hoop coop poop opportunity was WAY better than if you had just said it.😂😂😂
That was funny to me too. Enjoyed the voiceover
Gosh Morgan I'm just so impressed by your video making skills. Seamlessly weaving a narrative into a vlog while also doing manual labor that requires thoughtful problem solving seems WAAAAAY difficult. Well done man, we appreciate all your hard work!
Morgan has hired an awesome editor.
@@mc101 his awesome editor does a killer job of knitting the footage together :-)
@@mc101 i believe they both do the editing ~
plus showing us a bit of editing ~
@@colecolettecoleI'm thoroughly impressed by the whole process! However many people are involved, it's a very meticulous ordeal to make a video like this. Planning, scripting, filming, editing, finalizing; you can definitely see all the time and care that goes into making a gold shaw farm video :)
Hey Morgan, there is a moral question there on using midjourney to create those pig pictures. Midjourney specifically uses a database of images that were scraped indiscriminately online, including artists' that have not consented to have their art used as a training tool for the AI, nor have the company got their copyrights. Legally it's still pretty grey, but I encourage you to look up artists' thoughts on AIs like midjourney or stable diffusion, etc.
Especially that you're including those generated art in your video that makes you money. These artists are usually small time or up and coming, and they don't have the power behind them to check on these legally. Unlike the many music generators for example, that do not use copyright material because they know that the music industry would come down on them legally.
Good point 👏
Lets swap this scenario. An up and coming human artist studies art for years (books, online, classes, etc) to teach themself how to paint, draw, photoshop, whatever. Based on what they've learned, they then create their own original work that everyone loves and is using constantly. Does every artist they studied and learned from deserve a royalty? Does every: book author, art teacher, street painter, performance, ad company, random conversation, youtuber, critic, that gave this human artist knowledge and inspiration deserve a royalty? Whatever your answer is, now swap human artist with A.I. A.I just studied and learned faster.
@@JohnSmith-et8xz that's the problem. Artist study and reference work but they're still drawing on their own, using textbooks and master paintings that are made for either commercial educational use or is in the public domain. Artist still draw that eye, that hand on their own. AI doesn't do that. It steal and copies directly from artworks that the artists never gives consent to. It doesn't draw its own work, its mishmashing multiple artworks together like if someone took multiple cakes and mash them into one. You're still stealing from the Baker even if you mashed the cakes together to make something new. No one should steal other's own hardwork, and AI is build on the backbone of the stealing of others. Why make AI for art when artists never asked for it when theres a million other jobs that would benefit from AI that doesnt involve it stealing from others? If you can't understand that simple then you're just immoral in every way.
@@piplupcolathat’s not how ai works m8
Also, why do we give these protections for music generators? You could make the exact same arguments for them, yet companies still take care to not use copyrighted materials. Why are visual art any different?
Back in the 1930’s and early 1940’s, my dad farmed with an ox. It was pretty standard to use oxen back then, they were easy to control and easy to care for, ie, ‘cheap to run’.
And you care
Those must be wonderful memories for you.
Back in the 40s and 59s, my tenant farmer Opa farmed using his many children for the same reason.
My father was born in 1922. The 12th of 13 kids. Needed a lot of kids to work the farms in those days. My grandfather raised cattle and cotton, and also had a sawmill and cotton gin. My father picked cotton as a child. Worked the fields with mules. As the older ones grew up and went to college (my grandfather was BIG on education, since he didn't have much) and into WWII, the mules dropped off and tractors were used. Papa had to depend on mechanization to survive. I still remember the huge feed mill/grinder in the feedlot barn. One reason the small farms didn't survive was that the kids didn't want that lifestyle. Of my father's 12 brothers and sisters, 10 went to college. Oldest son worked the cotton gin with Papa. Others worked in the steel mill in the area or ran cattle. But most became teachers and educators and didn't stay in the area, including my father.
My granda moved logs with his draft horses. Even though he loved them. They were alot of work after work along with feed. Plus grandma would do nothing with them. She was not a fan. Course she didn't really care for animals period.
Speaking as an artist myself, I think that if you're in a position where you were never going to pay an artist in the first place (non-profit, personal use) or could have found free stock for what you were looking for, then it's totally fine. As an artist, I think its a great tool to use as a reference. If it provides a sketch and I finish it, is it mine? If I provide the sketch and it finishes it, is it it's? It's definitely all a gray area. But as a point of reference? Even non-digital artists look at reference photos. If that's all it's used for right now, it's perfect.
Now if, on the other hand, you were using it create images of highland cow heads with witty phrases on them and slapping them on a print-on-demand t-shirt and selling it on etsy, then we'd all have a huge problem, I think. But a video thumbnail that still uses your likeness? A one off joke image? I have no problem with that, tbh.
The other thing I'm using AI for is coding. I'm also a web developer (for my own personal projects) and it can just do it way faster. I have to double check its work constantly, but its really sped up my prototyping.
It's not taking a job away from anyone else in my uses. And its not in yours, either.
AI is nifty and is going to do all sorts of things in the future, but as someone who has huge respect for you and your art process, I'd really like to add my two cents on this one. Careful about using AI Art in things you're using for commercial purchases, like the thumbnails. Unless you've REALLY deeply looked into the program you're using to make them, a LOT steal art from digital artists like myself (Almost always without permission.) It feels like the kind of thing you'd probably care about, so a heads up! Make good choices and keep vibin'.
Training an AI on images is not theft - it can't be, because they do not actually save any images anywhere (that's not how the AI we have right now works!). If you upload your work somewhere, you want people to look at, and training the AI is exactly that. You're basically saying how dare you look at my pictures, it might enable you to later copy the style!
@@verenakremer6748hello! Training AI by using people’s art without permission is in fact stealing, hope this helps!
Even if a lot of people agree with your opinions, Benny & Tulley, and follow through, the companies will still plow ahead unless the government stops them. Same thing with climate change, rainforest destruction, and child labor. The US Federal Gov/State Department/DoD/IMF & World Bank would rather bully countries like Sudan into punshing, murderous fiscal austerity which causes so much pain among the populace that riots break out and gov breaks down, instead of enforcing child labor practices in places like Congo. IRS goes after $600 gig income instead of taxing Apple, Buffet, Alphabet.
@@verenakremer6748 You're wrong, in order for the AI to learn from the data, it has to first copy the image to its servers first. At that state, using that image for commercial reasons, is in fact, crossing the copyright laws. That image, is used as a training tool, as a part (because the AI ultimately saves the learned weight in its servers), of a commercial product (the AI).
@@ufhewahf @tulleyelniski6373 they have the images or texts in a temp storage only while they are working on them, and then they delete the data again. they don't keep the images or data, and they don't sell them. ergo, it's really not theft. and any laws that would actually effectively stop that would be a hard no for many big companies like google, just to name one. whether you approve or not, it's not gonna be ever forbidden.
At some point the corporate world is going to have to take a Henry Ford approach to understanding of the marketplace - you need to have customers who can afford to pay for the goods and services you offer. If you are so greedy that there is no middle class, you are soon going to be poor too. This is why it is important to have a fairly compensated workforce.
My former spouse was a urban planner in a rural county. One of the interesting statistics she told me was that in our county the number of dairy cows were roughly the same for 100 years. The difference was the number of farms and farmers that took care of those cows. The modern farming operations ran on 10% of the number of workers who had done those jobs 100 years previously. And the farms had 10X the size of herds.
I just love the sound of crisp grass. Happy healthy cows
My grandfather had a 78 acre agricultural farm and hired seasonal workers to help plant, grow and manage his crops. Then he would sell his vegetables at the Hay Market Square in Boston back in the 1950's and 1960's.
my grandfather was a sharecropper
Beautiful new hive! I may forward this to my PCP who is retiring {sob} and mentioned becoming an amateur beekeeper. And you are looking so much more HEALTHY since giving up the insurance job and moderating your food choices. Good on ya!
Every day a new video comes up here, it really makes my entire day. I love to watch them and hear your thoughts on things and watch your adorable animals. As always, great video today. Thanks for being my place of zen. 💖
Morgan i just want you to know when i see you uploaded i ALWAYS WATCH. because i know its going to be good. I follow alot of channels that i watch regularly but yours is one i wouldn't miss for nothing. Your story telling capabilities are bar none my friend.
6:50 - there’s a German word for that, Treppenwitz (“stairway joke”). It’s the witty joke or scathing comeback that comes to you as you’re walking down the stairs after the party has ended.
You forgot to mention about the draft animals the tractor replaced. We had farms which bred these animals be it horses or ox. Then black smith, saddle and carriage repair because things have a way of wearing down.
he mentioned them
I found your reflections on AI very interesting. I sort of feel like you are chatting with the neighbor across the street that recently passed. I bet he had some interesting stories about how farming has evolved over the years. I am sorry for your loss.
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I really enjoyed your talk today, Morgan.
Really enjoy your videos, Morgan. Only request is PLEASE put up the text for longer than a few milliseconds! I'm a very fast reader but always have to go back and pause to see your comments. Thanks.
My Father grew up in Maine for much of his earlier years on a few farms. He and his full Brother lived with Aunts and Uncles for a time, and they and their Cousins worked on the farm with the adults to get things done. He would wake up around 0430 and go out to feed the animals , milk the cows, and to tend to the livestock. Then it was bringing in eggs or milk and having what breakfast their Aunt made. After that they would tack up the draft horses and hook them up to the cart, or start the tractor if they were using that. Once everyone was ready it was off to where the men were working that day. My Dad drove the tractor most often while he picked up cousins and family friends along the few miles to where they were either logging or where they were farming. Dropping the men and the team and wagon or the tractor off, the kids walked to school a few miles and got their education. After school the kids walked back to where the men were and worked. The older boys either helped cut wood, yard it, or load it. If they were farming, they were usually picking crops…. (Mostly potatoes). When sundown came, it was back to the farm the same as how they got to the fields or woodlands. They untacked the horses, washed or wiped them down, fed and watered them, and again milked the cows and collected eggs. They ate, did evening chores, bathed if needed, and then fell into doing homework, often after 11:00PM. Lights out was by 1:00AM, so you got 3-1/2 hours of sleep at the least. More sleep if you finished your homework early. You worked as a family, with family, and with your neighbors, who often were like family. You bartered and traded with goods produced upon your farm, for those different ones produced on other farms. You also traded and bartered labor, but if there was an emergency, my Great Aunt or Great Uncles would send the boys over to help at any time needed. Sustainability, it would seem, was not held just to the farmstead, but shared in a way throughout the community. The farms were often left to the children to continue on in those days. What you need Morgan, is children. You raise them on your farm, teach them on your farm, show them the value of your farm and the ecosystem that you have created for sustainability, but more so for happiness. They learn about animals, plants, that ecosystem, the wonderful things, the tough horrible things, but they never stop learning. They invest their time and labors not only as chores, but as a duty to the collective health and welfare of the farm. They earn their way into being a vital part of their very own future.
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AI can help your farm with scheduling on your chores like a virtual PA. It can be tricky to make a model of your chores and the rules of the farm that an AI can understand, but once you come up with the model, you can ask your Virtual assistant to schedule your chores with the objective of completing farm tasks as quickly as possible, or maximizing profit to cost ratios, or scheduling chores such that the laborer (which would be you) would be the least tired. It all boils down to training your AI to recognize the output you consider is favorable.
how boring not to think
Great video. You sure pack a lot of information in a short amount of time but also totally interesting. Thanks Morgan!
I would say that a lot of the things being put forward as AI are not really AI, but more advanced pattern matching algorithms. There are some pretty hard limits on things like Chat GPT which is a LLM, and other tools and what they can actually do / comprehend. A lot of the noise that is out around now, I would put on the same sort of level as the noise for NFTs a couple years ago.
Listening to a legal case recently where the lawyers decided to use chatgpt to write the filing. On the surface it looked OK unfortunately chat gpt made up the cases it cited for case law. The judge questioned the validity of what had been cited because they couldn't find the cases. Instead of fessing up, they hadn't even checked it themselves, the lawyers of 30 yr experience doubled down. The judge was not amused when the truth was discovered, the lawyers are facing sanctions.
Industrialization killed the farms. What really happened was people who were farmers moved into the cities to work in the factories. Better pay and such. They then bought their food at a supermarket. People use to make most of their own food and only bought refined stuff at local shops like Sugar and Flour. Things have changed. For the better not sure. It is a little safer now because of pasteurization and other hygienic stuff we do.
I would expect your farming predecessors mostly relied on family for labor. In the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s they may have had at least one non-family employee. But in the 70’s and 80’s dairy margins got thinner and thinner so finding and keeping farm employees (family or otherwise) became a huge challenge. Many of Vermont’s small family dairy farms sold their cows. Lived through all of it with my family. Really good video. So is the barn done?
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Long and informative video great watch thank you
Your the best farmer
The thing to think about regarding AI, particularly AI "Art", is that the AI was trained on artwork that was illegally sourced. It's essentially art theft. Just keep that in mind. It's always better to commission a real artist/writer for their work, than to source from AI. That's the ethics behind it, because it's effectively people getting rich off stolen resources.
But I guess what else is new with humanity. :P
Great video though, nice food for thought.
They stop using slave labor because they lost the civil war
Great comment. That was food for thought.
THIS. This so much. Speed and convenience don't compensate for the fact that AI image generators get their sources form non-consenting artists.
As an artist myself, albeit in the music business, I agree with you on principle. That said, there is no way the vast majority of UA-camrs could afford or justify spending the money on a human artist to draw them the kind of art Midjourney can spit out in seconds for very nearly free. A talented artist, even one who works quickly, would likely charge hundreds of dollars for even one or two of those complex works. That simply doesn't work for videos unless they are getting millions of views. So the choice isn't really human vs A.I. ... it's artwork in the video vs no artwork in the video.
The future of small farms lays with delivering higher quality products to middle class city dwellers. In my country there are hundreds (if not thousands) of really small farms (like 5-10 acres) making a decent profit with bio / traditional products sold online with door-to-door courier delivery, from pesticide free veggies & fruit to free range meat/eggs/milk, unprocessed honey, traditionally made cheese or deli meats, etc.
I would love to see more long cut content, as much as I enjoy your editing zingers and snappy cuts the longer form content hits much better especially when you are standing in front of the camera talking, its very obvious when you cut between sentences and it feels more authentic if you speak your mind as it comes!
You made a bunch of very good points, and I love how you wrap it around to being about ecosystem-style management. However, there does seem to be at least one major differences between the industrial agriculture revolution and this new wave of AI creations: agricultural machines sought to replace the work of peoples’ hands and muscles, while AI generators seek to replace the work of peoples’ minds and creativity. And that doesn’t seem even close to being possible. While I understand the novelty of AI generators, in my experience it appears that any website or video including substantial amounts of AI content can be safely discarded as misinformative, nonsensical garbage. Aside from the issues of widespread digital art theft and the AI-supporting community being filled with a-holes and scam artists, there’s also the point of a recent study that showed that AI programs will inevitably, rapidly decline in quality unless new material gets constantly put into them. After recycling their own generated images enough times, AI programs eventually spew out nothing but unintelligible mush. It’s not productive, and cannot contribute anything better than what a human mind can contribute.
That's a very narrow view. Just look at what AI was doing a year ago vs today. The technology is advancing rapidly and will very likely be indistinguishable from human art in many cases. It's already replacing human jobs, even in its half baked state.
@@AlmightyDoubleHelix Well, throwing anything cheaper than live human jobs at customer service is a very tempting proposition. How happy the customers may be is another matter.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 we don't live in a country where losing your job is easy to recover from
Wow love the doggy door/ human gate.
Started this was about a farmer and his work plus animals😮 now he gives mental health recommendations 😅
Well done! By the comments, your discussion is getting people to recognize that we must consider things as your expose says "Balance". What you may have missed for consideration is picked up by your fans, which is why your followers are increasing. This is why people subscribe. The topics, along with the discussion have made this episode well worth the time to listen and read.
Congratulations on over 800K subscribers!
I love your scenery-matching color scheme.
Green bathed in blue on you, green bathing in blue behind you.
It just jives well.
Also-interesting points, and I really enjoy your points.
GOLD SHAW FARM (Morgan Gold) FOR PRESIDENT 2024!!!
I bet you’d change this country for the better.
I love Abby & Toby & the cats.god gave us animals for our enjoyment.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love Abby and Toby dogs
Hey Morgan. Excellent video. I am an IT student with aspirations to own a homestead like my grandfather, so I am a long time fan (3/5yrs?). You bring up many points that I did not think about in regards to artificial intelligence and how to relate ethical dilemmas to the average person. There are many nuggets of wisdom here that make me wonder what a paper published by Morgan would read like..
Quick question: have you thought about moving a stationary cow brush to the pasture for the cattle that don't want you to touch them?
The "cowmobile" is usually out there with his cattle. It has two brushes on it. But I believe he's mentioned he's working on a 2.0 version before summer.
Why don't you make a doggy door to the upper pasture so that the dogs can get constant access to it?
Probably because then predators can walk in too.
He said he wanted Abby to be separated from Toby on the upper pasture so doing that would mix the two together once that happens.
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I always love watching
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It's so nice to see Toby and Abby working together. I hope his bent nose has straightened out.
I had to stop and define wendleberrie *AND* agrarian in the same moment. Thank you for making me smarter.
Every day is an Easter Egg hunt for Morgan. 😄👍💙🕊
I was watching GMA3 yesterday and what a surprise it was to see you and Allison on it.
Gotta like for "hoop coop poop" interruption.
A, love the cover photo, I think it's from a KS farm or Nebraska.
B, I thought the same thing about the Hoop Coop Poop as soon as you paused it. 😂😂😂
Keep up the great work, love talking to my friends about what you're up to.
not every state had slavery and it took 87 years for america to end slavery once free from the king's rules. as a black person, i feel its necessary to give a more complete picture... including the fact that black people and native americans also had slaves.
also, it wasn't only black people who were (and are still today) slaves. qatar is full of indentured servants right now, as in africa, china.. and even america.
we should be trying to stop this more than rehashing the mistakes of the past..
Great video , and great information
Morgan asking the real questions this episode. We aren't on a sustainable path and the path we're on is only increasing that problem. It gets dark pretty fast when you start thinking about it. We have in the ball park of 50 years left of oil so we'll see the collapse in our lifetime. It's inevitable without some monumental change. That's probably why we don't talk about it.
Not sure if this is an option or not, but another farm channel I watch gives there goats garlic salt blocks to help keep flies away from them. Just wondering if that might be an option for the cattle. It really seems to work for the goats. 🤷♀️😊
You are correct it is commonly sold at farm stores and mostly used to help control flies on cows.
Keep the videos coming absolutely love listening to you while I’m at work or driving or just watching when I get free time
11:57 Those little wings are so cute, I can't take it lol
As AI becomes the dominant species on this planet, I can only hope they will treat us as well as you do your animals.
If you soak your grains over night or for 48 hours, you can sort of match the nutrition of the brewers grains through partial fermentation. Put the amount of grains you feed them in a jar or bucket and cover with a cloth or a coffee filter on the jar. This will allow the fermentation process without spoiling it. No more than 48 hours though.
@official-Goldshawfarm. DIAF
I am loving your channel. May I request a slight change? I notice when you create a text overlay in your video they only run for a couple of seconds. I need to replay them multiple times in order to read the message. Is there a way you could make them last 10 to 15 seconds?❤
I always pause it
@@masonweeny8187 me too
Should have a video loop of how you swoop in to scoop the poop out of the hoop coop.
Just learned about the weeding robot that kills weeds with lasers. Amazing
Love joey doing fence edging work!!
Morgan you talk about the hiring of other people to help run the farm. If you think about it farmers who owned their own farms used their children as laborer's. It may not be fair to the children but the reality is that farmers in the past would have children so they could work on the farm. You know Justin Rhodes uses his two oldest children as laborer's but he also pays them a wage. I know you all chose not to have children which is okay. But when you think about different aspects of the farm that was a readily available resource that maybe people don't think about today.
Agree with a lot of what you said, but one thing to keep in mind is how you said the majority of your income is from the videos. For other farms where their production is the main source of income, it's understandable how those farmers might make their choices regarding efficiency of their farming practices in order to increase production.
Well, I really loved this video. In many ways your talk on AI and the ag industry history was well done. Pete, over on Just A Few Acres Farm, did a recent video talking about some of the same things. He is a small farmer raising cattle, pigs and chickens for harvest and sell at the nearby farmers market. It is just the right size farm for he and his family to operate and maintain a good standard of living. And you should see all the old red tractors he has completely rebuilt and uses on his farm. Oh, and with all things, it comes down to the money. Corporations will do whatever it takes to continue to generate and deliver the standard minimum of 20% ROI on their investments. If AI can make that possible they will continue to squeeze it for all its worth.
Please can you make a video on how to incubate eggs and what you have to do. I am debating if I should by an incubator or put the eggs under a broody I have.
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Came here to say exactly this.
Scrolled too far down to see this.
I've also seen reports of them using fake listings to make it look like there are more options, and then offering to sub to a different therapist "with an opening."
I had fun Thank you for sharing ✌
My dad used a team of mules to do most of his field work as well as his tree hauling.
A few chicken tractors like Lumnah Acres with an electric fence behind the cattle would rock the fields and spread cattle pies for nutrients. Sell laying chickens after 6 months and rotate all summer. You would make bank with a roadside stand for eggs and firewood. I hope you expand pastures and save back hardwoods to use in your barn rehab after foundations are secured in concrete.
Fun fact: there is so much AI art out there that AI is learning from those AI generated images and is starting to cause AI inbreeding that might cause some nasty feedback loop and break AI tools.
Mechanisation in agriculture was mostly brought on by workers leaving the countryside for employment in factories that offered better wages and hours.
That beehive is GORGEOUS!
I could watch you feed and water your animals for hours and hours!!!
Good morning! 🌹🌹🌹
It's more than just tractors. There was also a major push towards industrialization that kept pulling farm workers to the cities. That constant migration to the cities happened throughout the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, but it was the arrival of the tractors which allowed farm owners to invest in tractors and thus hire less workers.
But the use of tractors didn't really take off until after WWII. The popularity of cars also took off during the same time. That doesn't mean they weren't used before WWII, but prior to WWII it was still extremely common for ppl to rely on horses (or oxen) for farming or travel. The post-war economic boom led to rapid acceptance of the new technologies which allowed farmers to manage larger farms with less labor - but the trade off was the mass adoption of monoculture and farmers often having to choose between raising crops or raising animals.
There's a similar shift in manufacturing. In 1920, manufacturing made up 32% of the US workforce. In 2020, they're 8.5%. And a lot of that shift is because of the various laws that have been passed as well as automation. My partner used to work for a food company that made jalapeno poppers. When he was hired, they had about 100 people working a single line. After they automated the lines, they only needed 10 people per line. And that's an automation that went through in the last 20 years.
That doesn't mean the small family farm ceased to exist. They still exist today. My grandfather (who was born during the Great Depression) had a small family farm. The only reason he was able to actually farm it was because he had tractors. And even then, he only ever farmed part time. He worked full time as a mechanic and Grandma worked full time as a physical therapist. They had some animals as well when my dad and his sister lived with them, but as soon as they moved out, Grandpa had to get rid of the farm animals because he and Grandma just didn't have the time/energy to care for them. He had 60 acres which he co-bought with a neighbor (and later bought out). When he was preparing for his death (his cancer came back), he made an arrangement to sell the farmland to a neighbor's kid who was just starting out as a farmer for less than the land was technically worth - he wanted to make sure there would continue to be small family farmers in future generations.
of course is more than tractors.
is also irrigation, pesticides, fertilizers and enhanced crops, and green houses, and hydroponics, and for sure other things I have no idea of.
he mentions 40 percent then to 2 percent now.
I knew about 50 to 3 at end of century.
sure depends on criteria, but do not forget that the population tripled in this time. and this messes up a bit the stats.
but truth is that back then 1 farmer fed himself plus other one or two.
but now a farmer feds himself and 50 others. but also, many of those 50 are making machines, and medicine and roads for the farmer, so indirectly they still work in farming.
anyway, the problem is that if back then something disrupted the society, half of population could still fed themselves.
but now if something happens almost nobody will be able to feed on his own. only a small portion of those 2percent will be able to grow own food without machines and chemicals.
@@ehombane It's also worth remembering the Dust Bowl happened about 90 years ago. So... Yeah.
Thank you steel plow (which at the time was mostly pulled by horses or oxen) for all the wonderful ecosystems you destroyed. Seriously, do not till the ground when you're planting!
Its so different compared to what happened in England. I love watching the BBC farm series… the Wartime Farm covered this issue.
And now I'm waiting for the Joey Ramone Eating Grass ASMR track
You shoulda said "I gotta scoop up the hoop coop poop"!
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Summer is round the corner how is your fly management going along? As for calf that wanders off, I have seen a farmer that tied a rope round the wandering calf neck and the other end of the rope tied to a cow that does not wander off. After around 3 months the calf that wanders off even without the rope will follow the other cow.
AI is just the new shiny thing tech bros have rushed to as the "next big thing" after things like NFTs/Crypto and the Metaverse have dried up. They're hyping it up because they want to make bank from investing early. That's it. I've even seen companies start to try and get in on it, branding their per-existing apps as having AI even though they didn't change anything about the app. It's the new fad. The only difference is that it will impact other people livelihoods if its adapted at face value due to greed. It's one of the reasons there is a writer's strike. Could AI have useful implementations? Sure, but not in the ways those in the industry say it will.
Welcome to 2023, where we replace the word algorithms with "AI" even though AI doesn't exist and probably never will.
Omg you read my mind. A couple of shows back you presented your artwork and I thought….Morgan could of used Mid Journey….you are so with it!!!
Saw you on the news the other day in DC
In the 1800's farmers often had large families so the children could help with the running of the farm.
It’s not just labor costs. Farm hand was a subsistence job, but the animal power was a big cost. Draft animals need feed and shoes and training and they get injured.
Great lesson today, Teach!
You need a tractor like that in Green Acers!!!
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The best future for humanity after technological singularity is to create, together with general artificial intelligence, a virtual reality identical to the real world but unlimited and individual, where people are free to do anything imaginable while AGI protects us in the real world and expands throughout the universe to be as durable as possible
So glad you are giving separate time to Toby dog.,,, and feeding him first 🐕
Back as part of the "just released" video crew :D Like the AI images with the big robots! Getting into it with Photoshop's new AI generator myself, really interesting shift in the marketing industry though I still have moral mixed feelings and a fight with pride over using it.
It's obviously Awesome. Simple is often best.
21:41 „No cattle left behind!“ - Oh, wait…
The paid labor for farming isn't as old as most think because only when a farm became landlocked both figuratively by inheritance and others around it grew. Many who worked thru sharecropping owed some debt if a crop failed and even family farms often couldn't be divided after one generation or was left to oldest child(son) who might tell others to move on. The fall in those in agriculture also came with the rise in better roads since getting a harvest to market made more money by having more than one buyer which is still a reality since they set price not a grower. In the late 1800s when Railroads were the means to getting to markets they often charged more to farmers than larger bulk shipper that they essentially paid for both. Before tractors early harvesters were already lessening the numbers needed being drawn by draft animals and farms grew in size since what was once worked by hand couldn't turn a profit without the latest machinery. Since buyers not sellers controlled what was paid the more that grown became a necessity to kept ahead even on a family farm who's labor wasn't a question its those prices did more to push others out. A Tractor was like the arrival of the assembly line only more efficient since the machinery meant you no longer needed as many hands or just one craftsman from start to finish. Farming was the same they rode no longer walked while sewing or harvesting a crop since the power needed only fuel not feed and what hauled to markets often came to you or a CO-OP that stored it for a better price even overseas became possible...🚜🚜🚜
I believe it was mechanized weaving in Britain that the British government outlawed a few hundred years ago to protect the livelihoods of all the small industry weavers.
Have you ever thought about getting mallard ducks
The goslings need sunlight - their poor eyes! Every creature needs sunlight.
I agree with Morgan regarding AI, "focus on creating balance in the ecosystem". I would like to add a thought for throwing in Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics and an easily accessible off switch, just in case.😉
Mechanisation offers new opportunities and problems, but consider, between 1875 and 1898 the average life expectancy of men was 43. Post mechanisation, from 1900 to 2000, men's longevity increased to 74 years. 😉👍💙🕊
We still farmed with a pair of horses through the early 2010s, but there is a big missing fact here. Yes only 2% of Americans are employed in agriculture, but part of that is because a significant part of farm labour is now imported from Mexico and South America. Even then there is still a lack of labour in agriculture, because of wages you are right its hard to hire. The mechanization and push of big ag are responsible for the fact that prices have not kept up with inflation of the cost of production.
l think that is very good analogy about AI....An thanks Morgan for the fine video 👍
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