I think a lot of people wouldn't mind a remote operator job, but it would have to be safe - in the case of tractor driving, you need to look out for other people and nature itself. Over here in the Netherlands anyway, in the US it seems like fields are a lot bigger and more mechanized.

But yeah, what do you do if you have a breakdown or an issue in the machine (like a rock stuck somewhere) that needs fixing? I guess if you look at US large-scale operations (five combines next to one another) you could have one maintenance guy / foreman with five remote operators?

I do think we'll see more of that. I mean there's the jobs depicted on TV (so I don't know if this is actually a thing) of people looking at security cameras, that can be done from home I think. Plenty of FNAF fans that have done that for ages.

But it has to be secure. I mean another remote operator job I can think of is in factories and power plants, but that's really not something you want to be doable over the internet. Even without internet, stuxnet (?) proved you can cause damage in that kind of systems.

US large scale is not large in general. Ukraine (or maybe Kazakhstan) are much bigger (the old collective farms from the soviet union, the collective broke up but not the farm). Brazil and Australia both tend to much larger farms than the US as well (but not on the scale of Ukraine). It will be interesting to see what happens in Africa - there are signs that continent is modernizing.

Of course if you are in western Europe US farms are big, but there is more to the world than Europe and the US.

Difference is in game you're not actually responsible for a very expensive piece of hardware.

good luck attaching implements/heads/refilling/dealing with rocks/replacing blades because of said rocks/etc remotely any time soon.