Robot Farming

With accurate field navigation controlled by row end posts it will be possible to service SCAF fields by keeping rolling injectors in the channels between the rows with the work done entirely by tractor robots. This will be less expensive at the beginning of carbon dioxide supplementation, but once the concept is profitable it will be advantageous to install permanent underground systems as they place the gas or water directly under the plants at lower servicing cost.

Weeds and pests can better be controlled with gas and water injection under the plants as this keeps the row areas between dry and unfertilized. But, equipment working between the rows can be made inexpensively to get the concept in the fields. Of necessity it will use more CO2 as the areas between the plants will have to be saturated with the gas in order to insure diffusion to the plants.

In the case of recovering soils we will need to plow and treat the entire field once for carbon amending. Where carbon does not migrate or diffuse we cannot achive amending without full deep plowing. Once settled the field can be set up for robot farming with stakes or whatever positioning technology is available.

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