Agricultural Advances

The severing of ties with the Inner Sphere did not stress the agricultural industries as opponents predicted. Being as far from the Inner Sphere as they were, most of the worlds of the New Suns Republic were forced to become self-sufficient. Several corporations that stayed behind and gambled on a future with the NSR stepped up to make that happen.

The MakeMake Co-Operative, having gotten out of the agricultural business except to build and manufacture equipment, was contracted by the central government to work on making equipment on a massive scale. MakeMake Co-Op research worked closely with terra-formers and local farmers to build machines that would allow worlds to grow enough to sustain themselves.

This led to the production of the Mech-form, an ultralight industrial mech that can be adapted to any heavy labor task, harvesting drones, and the 150 ton quad mech, the MegaBeetle. A mech that allows for large fields to be harvested in areas hard to get to by other means. Aside from the few worlds dedicated to food production, most systems in the NSR are self-sufficient, growing enough food for their own populations. With the advances in farming technologies by Hestia Foods Ltd, a small family farm can be maintained and managed with  ease. Because of this, it has become a popular occupation amongst those living planet side.

For the populations living in the thousands of orbital habitats found in the NSR systems, most food is grown on those facilities. Self-sufficiency being a highly regarded trait among the population, all stations have some means of supporting themselves should they need to. However, this has led to a lot of trade in produce and other foodstuffs between the various systems as different variations and strains are sought after in different parts of the Republic.

Ranching has also become a popular profession as well on some worlds, since many forms of livestock have been bio-formed to the new environments. Veridian Dynamics stepped forward with their genetic engineering department and began work on modifying existing livestock to become adapted to worlds where terraforming wasn’t feasible.

Most of these were successes, bringing about breeds like the Landrace Boar on Kozny, a boar that can grow to the size of some battle armor, or the Holsteiner, another off-shoot of the Holstein cow that also reaches truly massive sizes. However, after the Campion Incident, the NSR Agra-Bureau has limited genetic alterations on livestock until further oversight can be established.