Will Robots Open The Door for Farming As A Service?
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
A lot of these segments that I do focus on robotics and automation. But where does all of this lead for the farm of the future? One vision is that it slowly moves the farmer off the tractor and into higher value tasks. Mark DeSantis of Bloomfield Robotics sees a future where autonomy, robotization and digitization all start to overlap.
DeSantis… “ The team came to kind of this concept of this sort of Venn diagram where you have autonomy, robotization and digitalization, and at the center of it they slightly overlap.”
Desantis believes the result of this could be equipment providers offering farming as a service.
DeSantis… “ The equipment providers in particular will go deeper into the farmer's world, into the activities that are normally done by the farmer, and the farmer will choose to what extent they can contract out these services.”
Although DeSantis sold Bloomfield to Kubota last fall, he says he’s more bullish than ever about the future of agtech.
DeSantis… “ I think the next wave, and I don't mean in five years. I mean like now. This idea of taking that sensing data and allowing robots, machines to act with us and collaborate with us to do all kinds of amazing things.”
Again that’s Mark DeSantis of Bloomfield Robotics.
