Come to think of it, this might also benefit small landholders eventually by reducing the minimum amount of land required to fund a single tractor.
Most small landholders should sell and move to the city. You need a fair amount of size to make a decent living selling something cheap. Though my biggest worry is the medium sized farmers - wasting $10/acre in extra chemicals when you have 600 acres is only $6000 - you probably won't even notice it and in any case not wasting it costs investment too. When you have 6000 acres though that $10 is a larger number and you can afford to put a lot of money in better whatever to not waste it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889842
> if you search me you will see elsewhere that I explained that bigger is better for the soil.
I read through your argument here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44889514
These claims are interesting but I did not find information to substantiate them with a brief search. I did find this:
https://mupages.marshall.edu/sites/nexus/2025/01/17/types-of...
> Most small landholders should sell and move to the city.
Economically, this has been true for decades irrespective of developments in autonomous vehicles. But city life is miserable, and there will always be people trying to escape it on the farm.
