Drones, robots, and super sperm - the future of farming | DW Documentary (Farming documentary)
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- The future of farming: Driverless tractors, drones and robots. How is the agriculture industry changing as digital technology develops?
Unmanned tractors controlled via GPS; drones that kill vermin in the fields from above; and highly efficient bull sperm used to produce genetically optimized calves. This is not science fiction. It’s the future of farming, today. "Smart farming" is the agricultural industry's new buzzword. A survey of almost 600 German farmers has revealed that more than one in two now uses digital solutions to optimize their harvests. Fierce regional and global competition, declining subsidies, higher standards of food quality, environmental protection, and increasing demand are forcing farmers to be highly efficient. This documentary looks at three examples of "smart farming" in Germany. Breeding consultant Johanna Schendel creates optimized dairy cows by selecting the right bull semen. Asparagus farmer Heiner Bartels uses a smartphone to calculate the optimum time to harvest. And drone pilot Bernd Meyer is out to fight pests in maize fields from the air. All three are trying to use modern technology to modify nature to fit the needs of our society. But where are the limits?
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DW's documentary quality is outstripping other channels... scary development even in the farming industry. what will the next decade bring? one of these days actual farming will be like playing a farming simulator game toady.
then what human will do then?even u?1 ay they will find u or ur family is no more necessary.so then?
@@ahmedsarfraz5896 Full automation of jobs will either lead to a communist utopia or to the enslavement of humanity by corporations.
@@AdrianAlexandru I believe there's much more to it than that. Either way, technology will first replace the tedious segments of a human's work, after that the sky is the limit, but I have a feeling that we might not live to see it happen.
I would say every development in farming that allows for less people to feed more is a miracle, this way humanity as a whole can redirect from performing routine tasks necessary to survive like food gathering, working for it as well as processing it free a lot of time that can be spent on trying to better understand ourselves the imperfect petrol monkeys, our relation to other peculiar species like gut bacteria and what we eat, the ratios of certain macronutrients on mental output, getting to know outstanding planet we live on and in time shoot for the stars in the literal sense of this phrase, or if sm have other inclinations, art does not create itself (yet), there are like billions of things that gaming/CGI community requires for next big boost in quality of entertainment, we still don't have holograms or proper 3D tech, and many many more, but it all requires TIME, less time wasted on getting basic nutrients for the biggest possible community, more time to grow as a species and be more awesome.
As created in the image of a creator you should also create
Nah, absolutely rubbish topics and rubbish reporting. Just visit Frontline PBS channel and see the quality of their documentaries.
as a livestock breeder, the dairy cow selecting scene is a total nightmare- designing completely for ourselves without care for the animal's quality of life is a sure downhill evolution. And we should be in the fields with our animals, observing, learning, and tuning in to the lives we are stewarding and the landscape around us.
One new disease and the entire breed is done for. Which is why heritage breeds are so important - that genetic diversity pool is irreplaceable
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@@DWDocumentary Yeah your documentaries are good, thanks. DW even has Spanish channel, but sadly it doesn't have the same connections with Spanish industry and farmers so we don't get much of that content.
What are your other favorite documentary you watched so far
No Words DW , keep it up.
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Can we just appreciate how adorable baby cows are?
Poor babys gets killed for veal and so you can drink the milk and the cheese.
I feel sorry for the Cows and Bulls as they are completely deprived of the natural fun they could have had. Imagine the horror if we do this with human beings. Thanks DW for this Sunday treat. Fantastic doc.
I think it would be an improvement if all the women were genetic altered to be beautiful. They wouldn't be so expensive. Cost with demand
AI is a safe method of reproduction in agriculture. It also reduces the risk of injury to the cow that otherwise could happen with bulls that are overly heavy. We are some of the few species that partake in "fun" for the fun of it. There are some other species, however, most do it for the main purpose of reproduction for offspring not enjoyment. So they're not missing much :) just an easier way to have their calves
@@juniorowsley9633 LOL totally agree
That was really something. Everything is so high-tech, and the pressure to be even more high-tech is relentless.
Don't see how unnatural this is....nowonder western food is so awful and tasteless
Great job Team DW.
DW documentaries are the best ,to the point and precise.Respect and greetings from Arunachal Pradesh.
it proves how little I know about farming... Thank you, DW. And more docs in the future, please.
Great documentary on Agriculture and very educational to know the technology is used for farming. Keep up the good work at DW.
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It's nice to know that in some countries they still have respect for their animals and the food they're trying to grow.
Farm of the future is a remarkable documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!
How are you?
Great documentary from DW
Wow beautiful video! I can't wait to get back to Europe again with my Mavic Pro 2 and DSLR and shoot some more videos! 😀
Excellent documentary!!!
Thank you for the idea !
that guy and his drone... LOL
(great doc as always from DW Documentary)
thanx guys
5:42 Sorry, I know I'm really immature, but that shot of that cow crapping and that lady being completely un phased by it 😂
That one cow knows how to multitask he knows how to crap and walk at the same time that was the most extraordinary thing I've seen all year
From your mouth comes your own condemnation
I lived in a small farm town for 15 years. Most of the farmers drove trucks on the side. No farms no food. I am from Hollywood and wanted to be a farmer. All the farm kids wanted to move to Los Angeles! I was like, "What the hell do you want to move to Los Angeles for? You live in paradise."
I love you guys ...keep up the good jobs
Always informative thanks!
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Great documentaries, thanks DW
Another good documentary 👏👏👏👏
it was great and fantastic i enjoyed alot thanks
Fantastic work 🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️
In America they’re beginning to beat drought by building organic material into the soil and using multi seed cover crops, much of which is knocked over and left as a green mulch. Between the cover crop and the organic matter farmers still have bumper yields even during drought conditions because the soil doesn’t lose any moisture, and the moisture is there from the top of the soil down many inches.
gotta love this channel. Docs on docs on docs :)
Technology has to penetrate more to feed the global population. But it should be affordable and easy to implement. Making it complex and costly will only aggravate the problem at hand.
The only workforce on the farm of the future; will be technology and highly educated engineers .
The only candidate even talking about automation and its impact on jobs. #Yang2020
In your dream. Trust me, there will be a hell lot of dirty and back breaking works that need to be done by people.
You need prayer along with whatever method is used, as with prayer you rain. This is my comment above about prayer -
In regard to the drought issue - I suggest praying for rain.
I live in Perth, Western Australia and me and my friend pray for rain when rain is overdue. I have been praying for rain since 2010. As a result we have had enough rain every year here in Perth since 2010. Last year we had more rain than usual.
I find praying for rain works best when you pray for rain inside the rain season - not out of season.
We get rain here in Perth 2-4 days after I have prayed for rain. So if you are further from the coast you made need to wait longer for rain after praying for it.
I PRAY to Jehovah God.
I also think that the farmed hillsides need to be terraced to help conserve water.
@@xy1981ca I have a feeling that by that time, those engineers will be called farmers. Humor aside, don't forget about maintenance crews, new equipment is and will likely continue to be expensive. On that note, there are probably several more types of jobs that will be created by this new way of running farms.
Undo probably educating more farming engineers and scientists??
28:15 "the screen's off because the computer's dead"
That laugh is so relatable. Annoyed because of the issue but glad you have a solvable problem now instead of a "well there's no reason why this should be happening" issue
Nice video!
Yes. The Germans once believed that the Tiger tank would straighten things out. It was a marvelous piece of work, after all.
I worked in the livestock agritech sector for a while, but the the stuff these horticulturalists are doing is a real eye opener. UAV biological wasp bombs, self driving super slow soil softening tractors, statistical asparagus sorters... I did not know it was this high tech.
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very amazing technology utilization in agri framing
I am totally impressed with your hard work. What I saw everyone is doing his/her 💯 person . I would love to see what happens after three years and More about agricultural land and seems like government is not helping them like in my country but no doubt. These people are doing excellent job. Wish could learn from them and to serve the people.
Just discovered this channel when I watched a video on "A.l. and it's Ethics". What an interesting channel with a really wide selection of topics and it gets the information from various sources, not just one. In using various sources, (IMHO) it gives a fuller understanding to the given subject. On a lighter note, In this video, when they were speaking about all the technology used in milking Cows, I found it Udderly amazing!! Ba ha ha ha.. Thanks DW Documentaries... ;)
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32 liters a day😲
Those mammary glands are working hard. 😓
Hemp is super easy to grow and the benefits are amazing. Try it
...longing to work with such great workers.
Great information about agriculture. German are upto the marks
Just let the animals breed naturally.
Why, if you want that to happen you have to give the Ag industry a reason to even think about it
We never did that. Since we invented farming humans have done selective breeding. That's how we domesticated animals in the stone age.
And that would be the African approach.
"Heiner's harvester assistants come from Poland, he has two dozen of them, the one who picks the least isn't allowed back again. It's fierce competition, Heiner is constantly looking to reduce staff costs"
Welp, minimum wage...
He is disgusting!
All those big farms owners are so disrespectful to people.
@@mihiec Yeah, but the disrespect starts with the customer, who does not want high prices.
After watching your documentary about Humus farming ( i loved it) i watched this and i am terrified. What i have to say to the asparagus farmer, you may have more production with less humans, but that kind of crops are tasteless, that is why people are not buying anymore. My neighbor makes conventional farming (we are too poor to use robotized machinery), and i am trying to make the soil friendly approach (i am learning). Using the same seeds, for example broad beans, or tomatoes, my production might be less, or the same, but so much more tasty. The difference is huge. I love melons but i stopped buying because they stopped tasting, it was like eating weird cucumbers, same with asparagus, i remember them very tasty, now i do not even bother to buy them because they are just, tasteless. Good for the drone natural pest fight, but we need more diversity in crops and more biodiversity in general.
There is another lie to debunk, the asparagus farmer claimed that the customer does not want to pay $12kg and that's why he wants to mechanise everything so he doesn't have to employ anyone, it's the prices set by the wholesale buyers company that squeezes the farmers margins not us. Those who set wages to minimum survival levels are also to blame because then we will not be able to afford to pay for the food.
Ingenious farming.
Class! Super 👌
After watching the video, I can't help but sigh about the development of industrialization. The equipment in the video is unfamiliar to many people and difficult to see in life. They provide more convenient and fast possibilities for agriculture.
Thank you for the information, and relatively non political presentation. You guys do a great job, and I watch nearly all of your videos. Thanks again.
Johanna ist sehr schön...
I Appreciate Modern technology in Agriculture/ farming it makes work more easily than before.
Whch also improves productivity
It increases input costs while destroying the soils.
20:29 nice wallpaper :D
Nature being constantly exploited and then we are surprised why our planet is suffering. "Animals become statistics and measured how well they will fit the machines."
poor bull, never seen a cow in his life
You mean efficient bull, it's breeding so many more cattle than it ever could have therefor carrying on its genetic legacy in a larger way
At least the poor bull won't catch any sexual transmitted diseases fucking all those cows. hahaha
@@Casey_Bass no he means poor bull and also... the genetic and other legacy of all this is idiotic. utterly idiotic. men thinking they are bigger and better than the rest of life and our planet... lol not
poor cows never see a bull... or their babies or their lives lived for themselves and each other. This numbers and profit game is pathetic idiocy and cruelty. These men are so confident.. and the women... sick eugenics still thrive in the efficient thinking which comes straight out of the nazi brain strain.
The reason why Germany is such a success economically is shown here. Technology, efficiency, hard-work.
German food is one of the worst in Europe.
@@MrNordulf can't be good at everything.
Human can never be beat nature..nature has perfection in balance...
Very very true
Except miscarriages, genetic disability, and so on.
All the effort put into the asparagus and that farmer got less money. He had to pay workers for real food.
The bull still has a good time too. 😍👍
It's cool to watch video of techfarming , revolutionary indeed for future human survival
Looking for perfection in a fallen world
More like looking for perfection in already a perfect world
Weather and pests are the key factor. The reality is that we need ENCLOSED systems, aereoponics in large scale vertical farming units in the end that is the only way to make a profit.
Nothing can out do nature.
Leading farming example for whole world. In the future we might have to get into vertical green house urban farming to feed the world.
yeah right, have you seen how is that going?
All the concerns over drones and wasps, then the crop is ruined by drought. Lowering the price to be paid when you get to market while making the first delivery. Ouch. Classic hard farming lessons, that will always be there. There is nothing easy about farming.
We want everything for our self , let’s think about what others .
Another great documentary. I am bit sad for the animals though.
...so beautiful.
Nobody watching this documentary seems to react negatively but in the end, they just don't care what you mean in the bottom of your hart. They can even show in advance all the crazy things they prepare. With enough money, they can feed people with low-cost products. Most of German's consumers will run to the supermarket. I don't care i eat from that i produce in my garten. The part when they say that the cow is designed to be adapted to the machine is fabulous. This is also true for plants... This is a nightmare. Bon appétit
Love it
Ahh seeing the cows 6:07 break my heart. They are girls, females, and ladies! It breaks my heart to see them so harmless, gentle, nice, and kind and yet they are being farmed so so so much without freedom and a perfect life :( :(
Excellent... Hallo, I'm from Indonesia.
As someone who works in IT I can't help but wonder for the drone pilot...did he ...turn either of them off and turn them on again O.o. If his computer died and it worked after it booted back up then that might have solved it faster haha.
Great documentary as always. Pleasure to listen to while I work during the day.
In parts uncomfortable, where will this end!!
Very soon! Lab grown meat is coming. Have faith :)
Thank you DW! I must say i am having mixed feelings about this...while we humans have always been using 'technology' (of the day) to farm & breed livestock, this time it appears to be doing it for the wrong reasons...we know from experience (chicken for example) that optimizing purely for maximum ever increasing profit is not going to be good both for the consumer and for the business....in nature everything is in balance...while i can understand the use of the drone, the same can't be said of the dairy..the problem there is not with the cows....its with unsustainable demand & production fueled by an entire supply chain driven by a delusional need for endless profit & 'growth'....i keep coming back to it....the problem is with the way we create & manage wealth..a.k.a our current version of capitalism..its the one thing that underpins most spheres of human activity....and its the one thing we need to reinvent if we are to not risk burning ourselves to extinction..
A very good point - the less optimized animals may also we contributing to the overall balance of the dairy operation, we just don't know it because of capitalist values we place on the animal. At some point this idea of elite food producers will create a smaller gene pool.
i agree, those poor comodified cows are just like objects for them.
Joanna's a fox! That little Frank should take a vacation to Texas and drop my way ;-)
42:05 Seems like not all things always ends in a fairy tale
He should use data chip with each ball, indeed, wonderful!
Please, make programs in hindi. so that we understand.
Hi @ajay kumar mandloi, we don't currently offer our documentaries in Hindi, but stay tuned and thanks for watching! 🙂
7.08 what if your phone falls down 😂😁😎
I was thinking the same thing!!
Feel sorry for poor cows :(
@Neil O'Neal This is because of greed from humans.
@Neil O'Neal Eventually nature will find a way to overcome.
Cows are feeling sick.... not healthy
but why they are slaughtered if they not fulfill thier requirements.
just leave them alone.
PERMACULTURE This is the future that the most optimistic amongst us are hoping for. In this scenario humanity is living well, in balance with nature and is on the path to a regenerative world. There is a symbiosis between technology and nature, big cities and nature’s ecosystems.
The next step for humanity - ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before.’ Without being jerks about it and destroying and contaminating pristine environments.
I lot of times, heifers are bred directly from a bull because there's higher fertility the first time around.
5:50 watch out!
Tilling ruins soil condition. Is compacts it, allows for more erosion and your topsoil runs off meaning it has lower nutrients in it, lower water absorbtion meaning more run off and droughts, and it wastes desiel. You can see it in the soil. I bet it has very low organic matter as well. Stop tilling and run cover crops that is frost killed. It will add mulch and help keep moisture in and add nutrients like organic matter back into the soil. It will also prevent erosion.Bonus, run your livestock over the cover crop for a secondary source of fertilizer and another income.
You can get natural predators by planting hedge rows around your fields which helps with pollination as well. It also adds a wind break. You can also plant other crop species such as apples and berries in your hedge rows for more income.
One new disease and all holstiens are gone. Over breeding selection causes loss of biodiversity which means it's a weaker population that's vulnerable to diseases.
I bet they'd all have better luck looking at regenerative agriculture. Less yield, but also less input meaning you usually have a higher net profit.... Or any profit at all.
nice technology
Usual high quality documentary. The cows are already 10 thousand years away from the wild animals. It's strange to even have the legs and poop now genetics are programmable.
Vertical farming could be useful for growing preparing.
It isn't "outperforming nature" it is taking a closer look at it, way more information and use that to treat the plants better.
Does anyone happen to know the name of the soil temp monitoring device/app used in this video? Thanks.
i can make one for you.
Reliance industries from India is gonna try all this at a scale never seen before.
Monoculture brings in more and more pests because monoculture is completely against the laws of Nature. Monoculture devastates the land and makes it less fertile. Intensive agriculture uses heavy machinery which makes the soil void of microorganisms. Intensive monoculture farming produces desertification of the land which is only sustainable for a good harvest with massive use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers.
Moreover, intensive agriculture deprives many people to do one of the most important human activities: planting crops, working with fruit trees and looking after them in the whole season for producing food for the community.
Of course, we can cheat, use machines, chemicals, even drones so that human labour is reduced to the minimum. It depends on what we want to achieve in the long run and what are ALL THE COSTS. All the harm we have been doing to our natural environment is mostly ignored but that just can't go on indefinitely.
exactly!
Totally agree!
So Mr Miklos David.,
What do you propose to increase production N fight against plant diseases?
Forget about lesser technicalities of the downside of the Big corporation like Mosanto/Bayer...How would you PRODUCE MORE IN THIS WORLD 2022 AND ONWARDS WHERE CLIMATIC REALITIES DICTATES NEW SCIENTIC REASEARCHES TO GROW RESISTANT CROPS LIKE :RICE, CORN SOYA, Potatoes among others to Feed the world population., Animals like cattles& Cows, sheeps, Chicken,pigs for fattening in production of Meat for Protein and lastly cereals in the production of bio-fuels....
Hydrogen-powered Vehicles will realities in a decade or more..
. SO IN THE MEAN TIME WE MUST LIVE N SURVIVE....
THIERRY TSANG.
Mauritius.
Is this narrated by Marina Sirtis?
Germans lead. Others are envious. Great docu
Very good and interesting but why does everyone use football pitches as a guide to area measurement when some of the population have never seen a football pitch
Amazing gainfull
Dystopian dairy farm is a more appropriate description.
I think the individual plant can be treated now, this was over 3 years ago and facial recognition is big in Agriculture. If someone had checked out my parents this well I probably wouldn’t have Scoliosis!
I wish i could change my country in a similar way