So given two of my go-to farm accelerators from Monster are in a poor state in 1.7.10 thus far, I cast the net a bit further and discovered agricarnations.
Cheers, not only for putting them high enough up the mod progression tree that I actually have to lose the tunnel vision a bit and explore another mod properly (i'm always guilty of cherry picking and missing a bunch of cool stuff when I get into a new mod), but also adding to a funny situation where I'm using three magic mods to power a magical crops farm to grow fuel for a reactor.