The pace of change in agriculture is rapid and is accelerating. Output per man-hour and capital per man have been rising faster than in many other industries. Is the time ripe for widespread automation as a sequel to mechanization ? The author lightly deals with historical tendencies, gives his own views, corrects some common misapprehensions, and ventures to look ahead in an imaginative essay, parts of which may well prove to be prophetic.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Anon. (1964). New Sci., 24, 580.
2.
CongerO. D., and CorbettV. G. (1911). Russ. Pat. Spec. No. 10, 632.
3.
CoryE. A. (1956). Fm Impl. Rev., 82, 1256.
4.
FaulknerE. (1964). Private communication.
5.
GilmourW. D. (1960). Agric. hort. Engng Abstr., 11, 2.
6.
LiljedahlL. A. (1958). Pap. Minn, agric. Exp. Sta., Sci. J. Ser. No. 4037.
7.
LitinskiiS. A. (1958). Proc. Lenin Acad. agric. Sci., (2).
8.
MatthewsJ. (1963). J. agric. Engng Res., 8, 207.
9.
MatthewsJ. (1964). J. agric. Engng Res., 9, 147.
10.
NashR. (1959). Private communication.
11.
RicheyC. B. (1959). Agric. Engng St Joseph, Mich., 40, (2), 78.
12.
WarnerM. G. R. (1965). Paper presented at Convention on Advances in Automatic Control, Univ. Nottingham, April 1965. In press. 21 refs.
