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The Future of Agriculture: Revolutionizing Farming with Robotics #FarmTech
Feb 5, 2024
The Future of Agriculture: Revolutionizing Farming with Robotics #FarmTech
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my job is to sort of assess the
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technology at a foundational level and
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see is there actually an opportunity for
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this to have a big impact once it's
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ready there's The Stereotype of the
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farmer you know the straw his teeth you
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know resistant to change uh our
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experience has been anything but the
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Growers we work with they understand
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where the future is and they're pulling
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us by the nose they're the ones that
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want to see this change and they're just
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beging us to get it done faster why we
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think robotics is important is something
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that the president of a actually turn me
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on to and it's about changing the script
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of farming from yield per acre to
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nutrition per acre can we make that crop
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be healthier for humans through
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Precision
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agriculture Farmers have always been
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looking for more efficient ways to
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Growing food especially when the food
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system is experiencing immense pressure
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like ours is
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today agriculture is entering into its
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fourth Revolution one marked by computer
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vision AI and robots with each
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Revolution we've seen great progress but
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not without trade-offs the last major
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change in agriculture was known as the
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Green Revolution it gave a crucial boost
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in crop productivity when much of the
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developing world was on the brink of
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famine it introduced high yield crop
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breeds that require large amounts of
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chemical fertilizers and
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pesticides today these methods still
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help feed the world but at the cost of
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many environmental
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imbalances but the good news is
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this fourth Agricultural Revolution
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actually has the potential to restore
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some of that
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balance increasingly folks are turning
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towards you know cover cropping again
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and intercropping and other regenerative
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agriculture techniques that allow us to
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keep the soil healthy techniques like
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intercropping Place multiple different
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crops in a single field which creates a
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healthier ecosystem and balance between
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resources the challenges there have been
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that it's difficult to do that at the
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same sort of scale that we can do
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monocropping which is how we view the
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world but because verdin's robot has the
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ability to farm each plant individually
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it could potentially enable these types
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of regenerative act techniques at
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commercial scales which ironically is
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kind of returning to how we farmed you
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know 100 years ago unlocking knowledge
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that a lot of older Growers had and
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bringing it back through technology I
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deeply feel the responsibility to make
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the world a better place and to be aware
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of the ecological impacts the societal
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impacts of our robots kind of Everything
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full stop I think we're just at the very
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beginning we haven't even begun to see
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the effects of this digital revolution
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in agriculture