The following is an article from a California Agriculture magazine published in the year 2000, and in using two case studies from California, is quite instructive on what it takes to successfully introduce mechanization and automation into a cropping system.
No, I don't think so and see for yourself with the photo series below. I have quite a few more of these pictures, but I think you'll get the point with the two series posted.
It looks like even the Wall Street Journal has caught the urban farming bug. Link to article below out of their "The Future of Everything" series, followed by my comments. https://www.wsj.
