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by corrral 1468 days ago
> Many in our area are farmers and they are a lot tougher than your post suggests.

Heh, I come very directly from extremely country stock, so I'd never disparage their hardiness.

... However, even the farmers are rocking fancy trucks and climate-controlled combines & tractors with GPS guidance, these days :-)

AFAIK you still have to step out of your air conditioning to shoo loose cattle back in their pens, or mend a fence, though.

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Not every agricultural operation is diversified like that. I don't have a great source, but this one is kind of ok if you flip back and forth between the maps. They have a better map that only works on desktop, and they have the raw data too.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Online_...