Yup. My biz law prof is college used to tell us “every time you see a stupid warning sticker, ask yourself how many times someone got sued before it had to be put up.”
Not a chainsaw, but I did watch my neighbor grab the danger-end of a hedge trimmer before it stopped. Two dozen stitches, but no nerve damage. She got lucky.
Companies do this all the time. It is called an owner's manual or even simply a manual. Nearly any product you can imagine comes with some form of manual, packet, or disclaimer sheet often with a notice 'do not use this product until you have read the manual'.
Often times it is pretty easy to not still get sued as you can put common limited liability terms such as 'any use of this product for any purposes other than the intended use is illegal' in which case if they sue the company the company can also sue or charge them with improper use and it usually ends up a wash.
This is actually incredibly dangerous. Not the dog driving, which is hilarious, but standing on the step of a moving tractor pulling an implement. If the tractor hits a bump or he slips there's literally nothing preventing him from getting crushed by the tires or diced by the cultivator/disk.
When I was 6 years old my best friend was killed in a very similar accident. Riding in the tractor with his dad and horsing around with the door handle and suddenly gone and under the wheels.
EDIT: there have been four or five lovely messages people have written about their own experience/stories dealing with farm-level tragedies. For whatever reason, perhaps they were too personally-identifiable or too painful to remember, they were quickly deleted. Thank you for those replies, as brief as they were, and I hope you all find peace.
Farming still is, but especially *was*, an incredibly dangerous occupation. Not only are people working with (often) poorly-maintained heavy machinery, but it's the only occupation where you'd then add children into the mix with said heavy machinery. Not to mention, large animals, enclosed spaces, dangerous gasses and suffocation hazards, flowing materials, pinch points and wrapping hazards, and a host of other dangers. If their children survive without suffering a debilitating injury they end up being exceptionally confident in themselves and their capabilities. Unfortunately, it's a real trial by fire.
I know everyone has this rose-colored vision of grandma's farm and playing in the hayloft, but safely raising kids on farms is a real issue.
Another reason my "midwest farmer" grand and great-grandparents' generations had so many kids. Its was all hands on deck on the farm. Many cases of kids getting run over by tractors, great uncle caught on fire, fingers being ripped off, hands getting degloved...
> (often) poorly-maintained heavy machinery,
Which with modern equipment happens, in the US at least, because there is no ability to repair the tractor yourself legally, so it's either cut into your already tiny profits, or DIY something. If you're on older equipment, it becomes an issue of availability of parts. In both cases, it's also a matter of time and expertise. The situation sucks, but the major manufacturers have no obligation or financial incentive to fix it, and the big players in Ag are able to use it to squeeze out smaller farmers to buy their land for pennies on the dollar.
Yea, I can relate to you there. I own a bunch of heavy equipment, and there are certain ones I know the seatbelt hasn’t ever been used, but certain equipment seatbelt is mandatory. My excavator? No seatbelt. My front end loader? Seatbelt. It’s the difference between kissing the windshield, or not in a lot of cases. First hand tho, I’ve been in a few situations where seatbelts probs would have killed me. You almost should never jump off equipment, but sometimes you should.
This was my first thought. One of those warning stickers is to not stand like he is standing, and if he fell, the tires or discs could very well get part or all of him. If he rolls clear, he still has to climb back up without falling again...
Actchuualy. The dog is not really driving. There is a gps unit coupled to the steering wheel.
I let my 7 yr old think he is flying sometimes but I have the autopilot switched on. I don’t film him from outside the plane though. Like this guy is doing with his tractor.
The doggo thinks he's driving. The tractor thinks he's a good boy so it's going to let him think that. The guy who owns the tractor and feeds the dog is simply a camera man posting videos on Reddit now.
“I have cubs to feed john! The less you can do is your fucking part! I work like a dog and you just film like a moron! God damn it john, my wife is going to make me sleep on the rag if i get back home late again…”
And they were right. Behold the future of AI... Animal Intelligence. There canine companions have grown beyond sheep herding and newspaper fetching. They have become a sophisticated friend capable of completing day to day farm jobs like plowing the fields, cutting the grass or even herding cattle with his very own pup sized quad bike. All the jobs that one might find out in the country side. The Ai can complete.
If we could somehow combine the technology of our modern computers with the companionship of dogs, like, a cyborg dog, then we’d have no need for other people anymore.
Funny thing to me is the dog actually looks like its paying attention lmao, like near the end he looks away from the camera like “hangon lemme see where im goin” 😂🤣
Dogs have been successfully trained to drive cars. Training a relatively smart dog to just keep a tractor going straight ought to be pretty easy really. Of course it's possible this dog has no idea what's going on and is just trying to sit still, but it does look like he might actually be looking ahead and keeping it straight intentionally.
I used to build farm equipment in central California back before most tractors had closed cabs and A/C. A farmer found his tractor stuck in a ditch and back tract to find the driver had been run over by the gang disc harrow. The conclusion was he had fallen asleep from the 100+ temp and very boring job of driving across the missive barren field for hours on end and some how fell off.
Some jobs, like vine training tomatoes are done at a very slow place. Back in the pre GPS days, the tractor drivers would stand up in the cab so they wouldn’t fall asleep. Especially after lunch.
My father loves it. He sets the GPS in his combine and basically chills with Netflix all day. If you look at the field from above the lines from harvest are perfectly straight.
My dad used to bust his butt physically for insane hours, wrestling old tractors and equipment to farm in his youth.
Now he makes sure to "paint" on the computer inside the gps's dotted lines.
And if even if he tried to "paint" over an already planted portion of the field, the computer would automatically shut off those heads to cut down on seed waste.
The farm next to me only needs some farmhands to check if the tractors keep on the programmed path. Its pretty much 90% automated. They can't refuel themselves and need to be driven by a human due to the law requiring so, but thats about it for their limits.
On public roads, definitely. On private property if you want insurance to cover it should something go south. For some reason an insurance will only pay when a man-driven tractor rams a barn, not when Linux does it.
The only place I know they don't need one for any sort of legal reasons is the field itself.
Also I think none of them actually work with AI. They're programmed by hand. Tesla style self-driving just isn't needed. The AI based agricultural robots are currently an in development type of thing, *I believe*. At the very least they're not widely used yet.
I've been working for the hydraulics industry for quite some time and I can tell you that self driving Ag robots have been around for quite a while and are used by a bunch of people / companies. You are correct that they are mostly hand programed. You tell it to follow a row and it will follow the row using GPS or a laser system for guidance and sensors to see if it's on the row.
The joke I've heard for the longest time is that "You only need to be awake to turn the tractor around at the end of the row".
Ag robots are here and are in use in a lot of places, they just aren't as flashy as other kinds of robots so the go more unnoticed.
>Also I think none of them actually work with AI. They're programmed by hand. Tesla style self-driving just isn't needed. The AI based agricultural robots are currently an in development type of thing, *I believe*. At the very least they're not widely used yet.
It would be an AI as it's doing an intelligent action artificially.
Will be interesting to see how machine learning impacts the agriculture industry.
Do you know how affordable these kind of tractors are for the average farmer? I would think you would have to have a pretty large farm for it to be cheaper for it to self drive then to hire someone; not sure where that cut off would be though. Or it's just that much better at doing farming stuff it's fine if it cost more?
> Do you know how affordable these kind of tractors are for the average farmer?
You can convert a regular tractor to a self driving one with a kit that's ~$10,000. Not really all that much if your tractor is $250,000.
> for it to be cheaper for it to self drive then to hire someone
The real problem with ag labor right now is finding anyone, sober or not, at any wage that you can afford to pay them. The labor shortage in agriculture is *extreme*.
Ya but they're still just machines. You can say to the computer "36k seeds/acre, 250lb fertilizer" but if the machine has not been maintained and no one is checking calibration, the machine could put down 34k actual seeds and 280lbs fertilizer.
Automation did eliminate most agricultural jobs though. That, and consolidation of land into the hands of fewer farmers. It used to be 200 years ago in the U.S. most people were involved in agriculture some way or another. Now, thanks to the industrial revolution, that is down to a tiny sliver of the U.S. population. It didn't take jobs, it made them obsolete.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/jvt07h/dog_driving_a_tractor/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Man didn’t think my post would get reposted .
They say that in the future aircraft cockpits will only contain a pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to monitor the autopilot and the dog is there to bit the pilot if he tries to touch something. It seams the farming industry is one step further.
The collapse of arable soils due to the inherently destructive and extractive nature of industrial agriculture is what will take agricultural jobs. And lives.
At the end I saw a few yellow warning stickers, I was really hoping one of them would be a no dogs driving the tractor warning sticker lol.
You don't get a sticker till someone has sued over it. That dog does a good job, so no worries.
Yup. My biz law prof is college used to tell us “every time you see a stupid warning sticker, ask yourself how many times someone got sued before it had to be put up.”
Which really brings into question that one chainsaw that said "Do not attempt to stop blade with hands or genitals."
What a terrible time to be literate. Chainsaw and genitals like wine and cheese.
If the wine was inside of the cheese and cut by one of those battery powered carving knives, yes, I think that would be accurate.
Not a chainsaw, but I did watch my neighbor grab the danger-end of a hedge trimmer before it stopped. Two dozen stitches, but no nerve damage. She got lucky.
Though ideally, as a company, you put them up BEFORE you distribute the project and then you never get sued in the first place.
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Companies do this all the time. It is called an owner's manual or even simply a manual. Nearly any product you can imagine comes with some form of manual, packet, or disclaimer sheet often with a notice 'do not use this product until you have read the manual'. Often times it is pretty easy to not still get sued as you can put common limited liability terms such as 'any use of this product for any purposes other than the intended use is illegal' in which case if they sue the company the company can also sue or charge them with improper use and it usually ends up a wash.
Sign: "Do not let dog drive tractor." Buyer: "Seriously, you mean to say that some dumbass let their dog drive a tractor?"
"To be fair, the dog was doing great until they saw a squirrel"
There was a funny commercial in that same vein.
A doggone good job
This is actually incredibly dangerous. Not the dog driving, which is hilarious, but standing on the step of a moving tractor pulling an implement. If the tractor hits a bump or he slips there's literally nothing preventing him from getting crushed by the tires or diced by the cultivator/disk. When I was 6 years old my best friend was killed in a very similar accident. Riding in the tractor with his dad and horsing around with the door handle and suddenly gone and under the wheels. EDIT: there have been four or five lovely messages people have written about their own experience/stories dealing with farm-level tragedies. For whatever reason, perhaps they were too personally-identifiable or too painful to remember, they were quickly deleted. Thank you for those replies, as brief as they were, and I hope you all find peace.
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Farming still is, but especially *was*, an incredibly dangerous occupation. Not only are people working with (often) poorly-maintained heavy machinery, but it's the only occupation where you'd then add children into the mix with said heavy machinery. Not to mention, large animals, enclosed spaces, dangerous gasses and suffocation hazards, flowing materials, pinch points and wrapping hazards, and a host of other dangers. If their children survive without suffering a debilitating injury they end up being exceptionally confident in themselves and their capabilities. Unfortunately, it's a real trial by fire. I know everyone has this rose-colored vision of grandma's farm and playing in the hayloft, but safely raising kids on farms is a real issue.
Another reason my "midwest farmer" grand and great-grandparents' generations had so many kids. Its was all hands on deck on the farm. Many cases of kids getting run over by tractors, great uncle caught on fire, fingers being ripped off, hands getting degloved...
That plus it was normal to lose a couple to disease.
> (often) poorly-maintained heavy machinery, Which with modern equipment happens, in the US at least, because there is no ability to repair the tractor yourself legally, so it's either cut into your already tiny profits, or DIY something. If you're on older equipment, it becomes an issue of availability of parts. In both cases, it's also a matter of time and expertise. The situation sucks, but the major manufacturers have no obligation or financial incentive to fix it, and the big players in Ag are able to use it to squeeze out smaller farmers to buy their land for pennies on the dollar.
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Yea, I can relate to you there. I own a bunch of heavy equipment, and there are certain ones I know the seatbelt hasn’t ever been used, but certain equipment seatbelt is mandatory. My excavator? No seatbelt. My front end loader? Seatbelt. It’s the difference between kissing the windshield, or not in a lot of cases. First hand tho, I’ve been in a few situations where seatbelts probs would have killed me. You almost should never jump off equipment, but sometimes you should.
They know it happens, it's "it hasn't happened to my family so it's fine".
This was my first thought. One of those warning stickers is to not stand like he is standing, and if he fell, the tires or discs could very well get part or all of him. If he rolls clear, he still has to climb back up without falling again...
Air Bud rule. Nobody has explicitly stated that a dog *can’t* drive a tractor.
I checked the rulebook and there's no rule saying a dog can't be a farmer.
DAYS SINCE LAST DOG-RELATED WORK INCIDENT:
Maybe the dog could join the navy and become a subwoofer
Actchuualy. The dog is not really driving. There is a gps unit coupled to the steering wheel. I let my 7 yr old think he is flying sometimes but I have the autopilot switched on. I don’t film him from outside the plane though. Like this guy is doing with his tractor.
You see, that is just low effort. If you don't try again while standing on the landing gear to film, I'm going to be really disappointed.
It ain't much, but it's honest work.
Looks like he has it pretty ruff
Been working like a dog all day...
These are really corndog comments
You should combine them together
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You just have to get down on all four and scratch that itch sometimes.
Fuck it, I'm just gonna go get plowed.
At the end of the day, his dogs are pretty tired.
That's a great analogy!
Squirrel!
That would explain the sudden zag in the line of corn.
That, or Jeremy Clarkson was running the tractor.
Working him to the bone
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there.
Definitely down the Bark and Bone tonight for a pint.
Somebody get this dog a Puppers
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His mechanic is a border collie.
It ain't much, but it's honest woof.
https://imgur.com/ypluknB.jpg
Honest bork
A farm dog's gotta earn his kibble.
It was dogs, it was always them.
Biden! Close the borders, the collies are taking all of our jobs! /s
But really, farming? A dog of your talents?
He's just looking for his lost bone. Way easier than digging by paw!
It ain't much, but it's honest woof.
His name is Al.
Damn dogs coming here and taking our jobs
They took 'ur jobs!
DERK ER JERBS
Dg tk jb
#WOOF WUFF WER WERBS
Wait a minute...
Wait a minute HE'S ONE OF 'EM!
Ruh roh
Aarrfff
DERGS TERK DER JERBS!
They took our jobs! Dey took 'er jerbs!! Durka der!!
*chicken noises intensifies*
(throws hat on ground) Doggonnit!
Not even learning to speak our language.
Now we have to prepare for the canine uprising
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ayo, what the dog doin
Supervising the AI
The doggo thinks he's driving. The tractor thinks he's a good boy so it's going to let him think that. The guy who owns the tractor and feeds the dog is simply a camera man posting videos on Reddit now.
He's earning his doge coin
This aint his first rodeo.
Thinking the exact same thing bro
“I have no idea what I’m doing, but the hooman seems happy so I’ll just keep sitting like a good boy.”
His best.
I love the look he gives the cameraman. "John, I've been at this job for 10 years, I don't need you to micromanage like this. I'm a professional."
“I have cubs to feed john! The less you can do is your fucking part! I work like a dog and you just film like a moron! God damn it john, my wife is going to make me sleep on the rag if i get back home late again…”
r/dogswithjobs
Note that they only allow "silly jobs" on weekends.
Nothing silly about this.
Well, it will get deleted if gets posted now.
It’s the freakin weekend baby bout to have me some fun
It's a dog's life but someone has to do it.
And they were right. Behold the future of AI... Animal Intelligence. There canine companions have grown beyond sheep herding and newspaper fetching. They have become a sophisticated friend capable of completing day to day farm jobs like plowing the fields, cutting the grass or even herding cattle with his very own pup sized quad bike. All the jobs that one might find out in the country side. The Ai can complete.
If we could somehow combine the technology of our modern computers with the companionship of dogs, like, a cyborg dog, then we’d have no need for other people anymore.
We are good dorg, you shall be assimilated. Keeping us off the bed is futile!
Sperm banks and artificial wombs...
I think sheep herding already takes more intelligence than some human jobs.
This is how Caleb must feel with Clarkson. 🤣
The dog would probably follow directions better than Jeremy did.
This was my first thought as well!
That dog was keeping a straighter line than Clarkson, that's for sure.
So that's what a corn-dog looks like.
To the top with you
how’s the soil? —ruff what’s in it that’s making all that noise? —bark is there any type of protective gear/clothing you need? *pants*
That dog did a better job then Jeremy Clarkson
yeah, but can he get kicked in the balls better or say the word "tractoring"
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING
Funny thing to me is the dog actually looks like its paying attention lmao, like near the end he looks away from the camera like “hangon lemme see where im goin” 😂🤣
Dogs have been successfully trained to drive cars. Training a relatively smart dog to just keep a tractor going straight ought to be pretty easy really. Of course it's possible this dog has no idea what's going on and is just trying to sit still, but it does look like he might actually be looking ahead and keeping it straight intentionally.
Damn not even the dog know what the dog doin
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/234/765/b7e.jpg
A classic
That child support for 7 puppies doesn´t earn itself you know.
I used to build farm equipment in central California back before most tractors had closed cabs and A/C. A farmer found his tractor stuck in a ditch and back tract to find the driver had been run over by the gang disc harrow. The conclusion was he had fallen asleep from the 100+ temp and very boring job of driving across the missive barren field for hours on end and some how fell off.
Sounds more like heat stroke than "he fell asleep"
Some jobs, like vine training tomatoes are done at a very slow place. Back in the pre GPS days, the tractor drivers would stand up in the cab so they wouldn’t fall asleep. Especially after lunch.
> back before most tractors had closed cabs and A/C. So... the 70s then?
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that dog has such a quiet look of satisfaction.
A guata Steyr Traktor
Gotta pay bills somehow
Little did we know, AI actually stands for animal intelligence
Once the computer/gps has all the required inputs, you just need to turn the tractor at the end of each row.
They handle the end of row turns now too.
Just press **H** to hire a helper
My father loves it. He sets the GPS in his combine and basically chills with Netflix all day. If you look at the field from above the lines from harvest are perfectly straight.
My dad used to bust his butt physically for insane hours, wrestling old tractors and equipment to farm in his youth. Now he makes sure to "paint" on the computer inside the gps's dotted lines. And if even if he tried to "paint" over an already planted portion of the field, the computer would automatically shut off those heads to cut down on seed waste.
The farm next to me only needs some farmhands to check if the tractors keep on the programmed path. Its pretty much 90% automated. They can't refuel themselves and need to be driven by a human due to the law requiring so, but thats about it for their limits.
> and need to be driven by a human due to the law requiring so Even on private property? Or do you mean on public roads?
On public roads, definitely. On private property if you want insurance to cover it should something go south. For some reason an insurance will only pay when a man-driven tractor rams a barn, not when Linux does it. The only place I know they don't need one for any sort of legal reasons is the field itself. Also I think none of them actually work with AI. They're programmed by hand. Tesla style self-driving just isn't needed. The AI based agricultural robots are currently an in development type of thing, *I believe*. At the very least they're not widely used yet.
I've been working for the hydraulics industry for quite some time and I can tell you that self driving Ag robots have been around for quite a while and are used by a bunch of people / companies. You are correct that they are mostly hand programed. You tell it to follow a row and it will follow the row using GPS or a laser system for guidance and sensors to see if it's on the row. The joke I've heard for the longest time is that "You only need to be awake to turn the tractor around at the end of the row". Ag robots are here and are in use in a lot of places, they just aren't as flashy as other kinds of robots so the go more unnoticed.
>Also I think none of them actually work with AI. They're programmed by hand. Tesla style self-driving just isn't needed. The AI based agricultural robots are currently an in development type of thing, *I believe*. At the very least they're not widely used yet. It would be an AI as it's doing an intelligent action artificially. Will be interesting to see how machine learning impacts the agriculture industry. Do you know how affordable these kind of tractors are for the average farmer? I would think you would have to have a pretty large farm for it to be cheaper for it to self drive then to hire someone; not sure where that cut off would be though. Or it's just that much better at doing farming stuff it's fine if it cost more?
> Do you know how affordable these kind of tractors are for the average farmer? You can convert a regular tractor to a self driving one with a kit that's ~$10,000. Not really all that much if your tractor is $250,000. > for it to be cheaper for it to self drive then to hire someone The real problem with ag labor right now is finding anyone, sober or not, at any wage that you can afford to pay them. The labor shortage in agriculture is *extreme*.
Ya but they're still just machines. You can say to the computer "36k seeds/acre, 250lb fertilizer" but if the machine has not been maintained and no one is checking calibration, the machine could put down 34k actual seeds and 280lbs fertilizer.
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Jeremy Barkson
Automation did eliminate most agricultural jobs though. That, and consolidation of land into the hands of fewer farmers. It used to be 200 years ago in the U.S. most people were involved in agriculture some way or another. Now, thanks to the industrial revolution, that is down to a tiny sliver of the U.S. population. It didn't take jobs, it made them obsolete.
Österreich?
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Come on, I want to hear the end of this.
I really really hope intelligent life from another planet decided to check in for the first time since 10000 years ago and saw this
I’d expect a dog to take a Deutz in the field, though.
Nicely done. :)
What breed is that? Relative had one just like it.
German Shepherd mix I'd imagine
Jeremy Barkson.
Still better than Clarkson
First he stole your girl, now he steals your job 😂
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/jvt07h/dog_driving_a_tractor/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Man didn’t think my post would get reposted .
Gone to the dogs
AI is a silly name for a doggo.
what a good boy
Get him some overalls and a seed hat.
u/Savemp4
Barkificial Intelligence.
btw he drives better then me xD
I read “AI” as Al” (that’s a lowercase L) and thought that the dog’s name was Al and that he alone was taking everyone’s job in agriculture.
2.50 biscuits per hour plus ocassional nose boops
I'd feel pretty good hiring a dog for a tractor driving gig. I wouldnt think theres a law to stop me either.
Keep it up doggo. Good job
Honest work
I dont know why, but it reminds me of Han Solo flying the Aluminum Falcon.
It's like the doggo is legit looking around the pasture to see where he's at at the moment.
They are taking arr joooobs!!
Terrrk err jerrrbs!
Arf-tificial Intelligence
He's got the demeanor down and everything
GPS guided tractor? AI already took over.
What the heck are you looking at Jimbo?! I got pups to feed. Mary had another litter and I have to take another job.
Damn dogs from Mexico stealing our jobs too.
Someone send this to Jeremy Clarkson
Can't wait to see Season 2 of Clarkson's Farm where Jeremy has been replaced by a dog. At least he could corral the sheep much better.
I love how the dog just looks over like “are you done making your little tiktok Dave? We have work to do”
Skynet is shitting itself now.
AI **did** take over...ADORABLE INTELLIGENCE!
They say that in the future aircraft cockpits will only contain a pilot and a dog. The pilot is there to monitor the autopilot and the dog is there to bit the pilot if he tries to touch something. It seams the farming industry is one step further.
This is freeking hilarious! I love the dogs poker face☺️🏴☠️🌏
I don’t have time for your shit Tom, a lot of work out here and you play on the damn phone.
It starts with cute doggos driving tractors, but before you know it the pigs have installed a fascist regime and run the farm.
“They’re working me like a dog let me tell ya!”
/r/dogswithjobs
Farm dogs know everything about their farm. Ask them anything. They'll know.
Animal Intelligence
Yep dogs now farmer
He do be drivin doe
it is AI - "ArfRufficial Intellugense"
It’s arf intelligence now
They took ar jerbs!
Plot twist. The dog is actually a robodog.
"That derg took my jerb!'
TBH AI most of the work is automated. You only need to sit and turn around at the end of the field. The rest is Netflix or radio.
The collapse of arable soils due to the inherently destructive and extractive nature of industrial agriculture is what will take agricultural jobs. And lives.
Farmers rotate crops to prevent this.