As the global population increases, the agriculture industry will have to increase food production to meet their needs, but climate change and other factors create the need for more forward-thinking strategies. The Onion takes a look at what the future of farming looks like.
Farmers will probably need to download an app or something. Here are some really amazing advancments in farming:
- Genetic tools allowing farmers to select for size, flavor, and temperament of vegetables
- Slightly more futuristic-looking rakes
- Nutrient-depleted soil just going to have to suck it up and keep growing crops
- More high-tech solutions, such as substituting unsustainable beef and poultry with robot meat
- Virtual...reality...asparagus...?
- Increased productivity on Arctic farms
- Supply-chain tracking that enables consumers to know where their food originated and what adventures it had along the way
- Everyone just learns to live with less
The Future Of Farming, Today
VP of Technology at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods, a global digital solutions company driving the best producer-to-consumer outcomes.
It may come as a surprise to non-farmers how widespread technology adoption is within the agriculture industry. While traditional record-keeping methods on farms have involved handwritten pages, there’s an increasing push to bring farming into the future with data science.
As our global need for food grows—one estimate from 2012 indicates a 60% increase by 2050—farmers have to produce more supply. To do so, they need to know every detail about crop planning, animal health, weather patterns, compliance, chemical regulations, contracts and more. That can be difficult to manage when they’re out in the field. As their operations grow, farmers need to track all that data in one place that’s accessible to their entire team, often in real time.
By bringing a device, rather than a notebook, into the field, farmers are able to upload images of thriving or failing crops and catch a photo of worrisome pests for their agronomist to provide more real-time action before they risk the loss of crop.
AGRICULTURE 4.0 – THE FUTURE OF FARMING TECHNOLOGY
A number of global trends are influencing food security, poverty, and the overall sustainability of food and agricultural systems.
The World Government Summit launched a report called Agriculture 4.0 – The Future Of Farming Technology, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman for the 2018 edition of the international event. The report addresses the four main developments placing pressure on agriculture to meeting the demands of the future: Demographics, Scarcity of natural resources, Climate change, and Food waste.
The report states that, although demand is continuously growing, by 2050 we will need to produce 70 percent more food. Meanwhile, agriculture’s share of global GDP has shrunk to just 3 percent, one-third its contribution just decades ago. Roughly 800 million people worldwide suffer from hunger.
Okay it actually works supprisingly well on the phone, I thought it would have no compatability. Looks like the boxes wern't big enough for the text. The hover funcitions also obiously don't translate. Still the gerneral layout and aspects were good.
https://www.theonion.com/what-the-future-of-farming-looks-like-1836428734
