I hate to break it to you all, but modern farming means to work a LOT with computers. At home for the "paper"work which is mostly digital, on the field with proprietary systems in tractors and other machines needed. Not even mentioning the IT work involved in herding cattle or chicken. You cannot run a modern farm without being an IT person. And yes, that's also true for ecological farming.
Now if we all would join agriculture to create open source and open standards … and open seeds …
A lot of the IT "solutions" for farmers are centralised, highly proprietary, complex, not interoperable and confuse the hell out of people that just want to grow food. We, IT people looking for a better life, could really help AND move to better places, closer to nature. THAT is the better way, in my humble opinion. FTR (For The Record) I grew up in agriculture. I live in the city, but I still don't like it. Back to the roots and build smart villages instead of smart cities, that's my goal :)
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/115116546999346244 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
