Eli Whitney built the first cotton gin, and that revolutionized cotton farming, it changed everything, forever in that sector. Today the business of agriculture is going very high-tech, very fast. More mechanized equipment, robotic systems, and high-tech tools.

The massive productivity increases and crop yields is completely astounding, unfortunately, this also causes a problem for people, workers who make their money on farms and picking crops – they just will not be needed in the future.

This means they may not be able to feed their own families. Indeed, I can look back at my family tree and before the 1940s my ancestral charts show ten kids in nearly every family. Why? Simple they were farmers and needed the labor, may as well “keep it in the family” so to speak.

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