Thank you for watching our video! I really appreciate the conversation around distribution, and the balance between fixing where our current crop calories go (biofuels, meat, waste, and more) and growing more (given the way our current food distribution system works). This is what makes this community special. The topic of farming and feeding more people is incredibly nuanced. It’s not just an issue of growing more and different food, but more efficient distribution, less waste, and more accessible tech. If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, including the nuances in how governments and organizations are proposing we solve food insecurity, check out our sources in the video description.
A great video. Youre right, it is a really complicated and nuanced topic. I wish you covered more on the right to repair issue, given e-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Perhaps a video about this very issue would be cool!
We should all have the right to repair. I want to repair my Toyota and can't even change the tires (due to TPMS sensors) or update the firmware without taking it to a dealership. Also it specifically has to be a Toyota dealership. Regular mechanics can't access the car's computer system. It's a racket. I'm sure these farmers feel the same way.
THIS. is true journalism. The moment I heard John Deere, i fully was conditioned to expect that there would be no mention of the Right to Repair controversy but the fact that it gets talked about instantly speaks volumwa to the journalistic integrity and the ethics of Cleo and her team. Massive props!
To be fair, it was merely a name drop of the issue. That's like toeing the line to make sure your audience doesn't get upset, but you also don't get blacklisted by John Deere for any future videos. I doubt they would've been happy with this video if she'd actually spent one minute explaining why right to repair is _especially_ terrible for farmers. (it's morally reprehensible in every sector, but if your entire year's harvest goes to waste because you're waiting until a dude's schedule opens up so he can come unlock the software (again) after a hardware part got replaced.... Oof)
John Deere has been a bit of a villain in the right to repair battle, but this is some really cool tech. If society & lawmakers can curb the greed of some of the money men involved, hopefully the engineers can just get to keep working on this amazing stuff.
Ideally on the other side of a greedy corporation, there are well compensated engineers. I noticed that often the most anti-consumer companies are rated as the best workplaces, at least for software engineers. Apple and Adobe are two examples that come to mind.
@@szaszm_ That's my father, and the mothers and fathers of everyone I grew up with. While recent layoffs at Deere's have soured attitudes some, that R&D and (stateside)Production have given many middle-Americans, and their children, futures outside of agriculture and government jobs. The poverty my family was able to escape because of engineering and finance jobs at JD in the 70s has allowed multiple generations to avoid such destitution. I make no excuses for the outsourcing of jobs, factories, nor the monopolistic stance on intellectual property vs real ownership. I'm a Louis Rossman supporter that also owes a lot to the longevity of ag capitalism.
I grew up on a farm. One of my brothers and his son manage the farm now which consists of about 3300 acres of crops in SE Washington state. Our crops include wheat, barley, malt barley, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), lentils, canola, dry peas, bluegrass seed, and Timothy seed. You really did an excellent job on this video. You covered a lot of new technology in a clear and understandable manner and with lots of enthusiasm (as usual). It was also good that you touched on the right to repair the complex equipment as it is a big issue in farming. What some people may not realize is that this challenge with legislation concerning right to repair touches numerous industries, not just agriculture (or it will in the future), so it is important to get it right for both consumers and manufacturers to do well. If you want the right to repair your car, computer, smartphone, refrigerator, etc. in the future, then the right to repair legislation should be important to you. You're creating a lot of must-see content on every subject that you tackle. Very interesting.
I'm so glad you didn't shy away from the problems. It really helps highlight why the new technology (and hopefully legislation) are so important and so impressive, and so necessary. Less chemicals, more food, doesn't just mean better profits, it means a more reusable planet. Ecology and economics on the same side.
Personally I believe ecology and economics on the same side can only happen under socialism. Capitalism is just not compatible with nature, u can try to make it compatible but it will be an endless uphill battle. Ain’t nobody got time for that. not you, me, or the planet.
She shied away from a huge problem: ~70% of food grown in the US is fed to livestock. Incredible waste of water and land, an inefficient way to feed a population
There isn't a lack of food, there is too much food waste. SuperMarkets/Stores dump millions of tonnes of food each year, most of it perfectly fine. And there is also the millions of tonnes of food farmers are forced to throw away because they are miss-shaped, have slight imperfections or just don't meet the ridiculous specifications of Super Markets.
Yeah she raised an amazing statistic of 25% of food is waste. Just fixing this will let us feed all the people. Who cares about the shape - i care about the taste, freshness and nutrition
Came here to say this too - between 1/5 and 1/4 of all food is wasted, and the types of food we produce are not necessarily the best for feeding people. It's not a food issue, it's an equity issue
Food doesn't last long, how do you get it to those that need it before it spoils? And supermarkets set those standards because the customers set it at the checkout.
@samanjj oh so at huge extra cost. And it would OBVIOUSLY be at extra cost. I'll explain why. Because the ability to spend the money freezing or canning it is already possible, making it sellable, but companies have determined there isn't profit enough warrant it..... soooo there isn't an income stream to cover the cost of such treatment, so it's a huge cost.
As a Dutch farmer i think there is enough soil if we are more productive! The netherlands is the second biggest exporter of agriculture goods( after America what is 228 times bigger) While living on one of the most densely populated country’s in the world! Because our fields are limited and expansive, we are forced to take good care of our soil and use every inch of our fields! Price of hectare is around 200.000 euros now a day! If in America they will work like we do here for decades, every thing will be okay! Good video!
THe Netherlands isn't anywhere close to the second largest exporter of agricultural goods, you aren't even in the top 20. What are you talking about? Ahh, I just went and looked it up, you are talking about in billions of dollars annually. But that is because you charge 8x (on average) what the other large exporters charge for produce. Grains from you cost more than 5x what they did from Ukraine before the war, and you've only increased that since, because that is the most Dutch thing you can do. Pretend to be good, then screw everybody over off war profiteering, like say with wool or textiles.
@13:30 too. Glad Cleo bookended the video with the issue. Cool tech, but is it making farming more affordable or are farmers losing their land to tech companies?
@@onnaquest The latter, sometimes directly selling out to Bill Gates in NE for example. "Gates now owns around 20,000 acres of farmland across 19 counties in Nebraska after selling some land in recent years."
*John Deere care more about money than they do the farmers. Farmers have been fixing their own equipment since the beginning of time!! John Deere is seeing to it that they can't do that anymore. Force the farmer to have John Deere fix their equipment's for big bucks, $$$$.*
Agricultural Lending is one of the most predatory areas of finance, and tech getting involved doesn't mean anything good for small farms. It's not just problems for farm labor that face problems, accessing these machines will also bankrupt small farmers. John Deere's captive lending practices are particularly predatory in this regard. This technology is absolutely huge if true, I just hope we can implement with empathy.
We don't need you to run those machines anyway. One central big tech can just use robots who will work 24h/24, 7d/7, for them. You're not needed anymore.
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra. the concern I have though is who’s going to pay for this technology on small farms? It’s not going to be possible without extreme financing, and those terms won’t be favorable. Extortionate interest rates, using farm itself as collateral, or taking so much of the farm’s crop yield they can’t turn a profit are already common practices from Ag lenders on things like tractors and seeds. Now we’re adding in million dollar technology, that’s only going to get worse, and if potential buyers are mandating it of their growers to try to guarantee yield but not partially or fully funding it, small farmers are screwed.
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra.I don't think it's the best idea to make global food supply a monopoly. Agriculture is literally what our lives depends on (many people tend to forget that nowadays), and that would be too much power for one or even few companies to have. It's all tricky...
My Glib first thought reading your post was 'Is there an area of Finance that's NOT predatory?' But inflicting it on farmers is an entirely different field to inflicting it on people trapped on welfare to buy a vehicle to get them to a Job. People on welfare use the vehicle itself as the collateral, but Farmers are forced to use a family farms' equity that has been built over generations. A person getting their Hyundai Sonata repossessed is a whole scale away from a multi-generational Farming family losing their Land. I wasn't aware that the massive corporate Buyers could also mandate what equipment they expect Producers to use. As @spulwasser points out, it's all tricky...
But somehow you managed to view this video and comment on it via the internet and, presumably, some kind of supercomputer. (Maybe even handheld.) So there is a time when everything will feel out of reach for the third world, and then, a time when it is well developed and scaled enough to be distributed widely in the third world. Someone has to do it first!
I keep hearing about the need for upping crop production, but the one thing that I have personally deal with is the amount of food wasted. The idea that we need to grow more stuff and yet food is being thrown away every single day is astonishing.
Hello ma'am, Great video! While these large-scale farmers can use these mega machines, what about the small-scale farmers? For example, in India, 85% of the farmers are small-scale farmers and they hold about 80% of the total farming land, they can't afford these machines. In my opinion, to create a bigger impact, there's a need for small, affordable, but equally effective machines.
i think that there needs to be laws to make farmers become cartellized. if you're living close to another farmer, you can rent a big mahcine that the state buys for a rental fee together, but it must be shared, it's up to the farmers to decide on what to do with maintenance, fines and other punishments. create small cartells and large syndicates for farming, where the small decentralized farmers vote for a syndicate council. One representative per 200 people or so would be good, and they're not full time, just part time representative, and with so many representatives per person, they're less likely to be corrupt. The modernization of the industry leads to secondary work, like travelling mechanics. However I think it doesn't need to go this fast. As India modernizes naturally without any interference, children will start to move away from farming and less and less children will stay in the job, making modernization inevitable
Developing this tech will eventually make it cheaper and accessible. Just like how smartphones are today. No one is stopping any development for smaller farmers. John Deere just specialises in large scale farming
@@hpgramani Yes his product is one of the good examples, while it is more centred towards easing farmers' workload, we need products that use the latest technologies to increase yield effectively.
This wonderful technology-and it is cool-works great for big corporate, farmers, but small farmers can’t afford it, and farmers who can afford it aren’t allowed to repair it themselves. They can lose three or four days of work waiting for a certified repairman to show up to fix their tractors or software, and the repairs are often very expensive.
It says a lot about me that I saw the map at 4:18 & my first thought was 'I wonder how big each of those fields are on average'. Because I have nothing better to do with my life atm, I have actually figured this out. I counted 42 complete or near-complete fields (the picture isn't very clear, so this may be inaccurate), so I'll round up to 45 to account for the incomplete fields I did not count originally. South America has an area of 17.84m square km's, so each of those fields is about 376,444 square km's, which is bigger than Japan & Norway. If my rounding makes the total number of fields an overestimate, then the fields will be slightly larger & would be closer in size to Paraguay & California. All sources for size of territories are from Wikipedia. (Also, this is mainly for Cleo, I did read all the way to the bottom of the description, so I'll tell you now that I am secretly very good at tennis. Whether that is true or not is for you to decide) Thank you for wasting your time & reading this comment.
I know this is asking a lot and the HiT is already super busy. But I feel like the show is taking on more topics that deserve longer videos. 40-60min. I love learning about all this stuff. Thank you Cleo.
@@gopackgo933 I meant to write $1.5 million for equipment and $1.5 million for land but you’re right. That’s probably low for the equipment and the land. I don’t know how farmers do it today.
12:45 I'm so happy you realise this. The answer to AI-enable eco-friendly farming with increased yields isn't some John Deere mega-machine that repeats the same mistakes of the past - they're only that big because its an efficient use of human labour. Take the human out of the driving seat and reimagine what "farm machinery" could look like and you realise that permaculture is the way forward. Right now it's niche because it takes a lot of human labour - but if you can automate a lot of the tasks, you'd land up with a system that's profitable, resource-efficient and land-efficient. It's a massive opportunity that it seems very few entrepreneurs have woken up to.
As a software developper working with AI, and having gone through a 2 weeks permaculture design course, I do not believe we're there yet. I love the idea, but the versatility needed by a worker (human or machine) to manage a permaculture "field" makes it too difficult to scale up - at least for the time being.
@@ShamWerks Sure, I agree it's "not there yet", but as entrepreneurs we don't need to wait for that! As you probably know, the advances in computer vision and robotics have been significant in recent years and we're starting to see increasingly general-purpose (including humanoid) robots get close to mass production that could surely do at least some of the tasks in permaculture. Frankly, a lot of the work in permaculture is just carrying stuff around(!), so at the point we can make a robot that can pick up (most) objects, carry them through a garden and put them down again, you could double the productivity of a human permaculturalist. As permaculture is *so* much more space and resource efficient than industrial agriculture, we don't need to entirely replace humans in order to make permaculture cost-competitive.
Cleo, these machines apply to industrial scale farms. What about the smaller farm plots that are prevalent in Emerging Countries? These farms cannot afford to buy these machines and rely primarily on manual labor, pesticides, and fertilizers to grow food. How do we make these farms substantially more productive as well?
If the big industries buy enough of a product to warrant larger batch manufacturing of the individual components and drive down manufacturing costs the parts become cheap enough to develop consumer versions that are still profitable. Just give the new technology a little time to trickle down to the little guy.
Just to be clear, there's no such thing as shortage of labor, only shortage of wages. Every video that touches on this makes this basic mistake. I would be happy to work in a farm so long as they pay me enough to justify the effort (schedule, transportation, healthcare, insurance, meals, oportunity cost)
13:50 Please consider #4 - it's healthier for you and it's the one thing on this list that YOU can do yourself. Notice how she just breezes right past it, because nobody is getting rich on you eating more plants and less of your fellow animals.
Part of me wants to agree with you, yet history has shown that _competition_ more rapidly drives innovation and the two prominent and successful forms of competition that we've seen time and time again through history are financial and actual war. Can open source work? Absolutely. But it doesn't work in all areas and it absolutely doesn't work at the same pace as capitalism-driven innovation does. "Open Source Ecology" (OSE) has been around for 21 years, but they're still _no where even close_ to being able to provide plans/equipment comparable to what she highlights John Deere doing. (To be clear, they aren't explicitly trying to, but the closest thing that they currently have is a micro-tractor, which they list as being in the "prototype" phase. They do list a tractor, but that looks they've made _drastically_ less progress on.)
Fourth agriculture revolution would be farming microbes in a bioreactor. Like making milk by feeding sugar to microbes instead of from cow. This is just making the current agricultural system better and more efficient.
At least you're not being totally and completely pedantic about a definition - one that I'm guessing you have no real knowledge of, you just wanted to feel smart and try to correct someone. Great job incorrecting her.
i feel like if we manage to get to high-yield intercropping it would actually be a very meaningful increase in our food production in terms of meaningful amounts of increase in available farmland. that would qualify as another revolution I do like your sci-fi level thinking though - it might not be as impossible as I think it is considering how ancient civilizations literally managed to invent crops like potatoes and corn.
What is presented here doesn’t increase foid production, it just requires less man power or use less pesticide but it doesn’t really increase production per acte.
The high prices of these machines only benefit large corporations. The technology is so expensive that it’s often only financially sustainable on large scale farms leading to bigger fields and less diversity in plants. The solution to the farming problem is switching to permaculture and food forests which support biodiversity and make land use more efficient. AI can also help managing complex farms. John Deer is only creating new problems :)
I think we are inevitably going to see the farm size gap increase. The amount of managerial resources required for a permaculture are way higher than those required for monoculture farming. I can see it being feasible at the very small scale, but I think the big fields will continue to be monoculture for a long time. The efficiency of a small farm is simply lower than a massive conglomerate, and if we need a 50% increase in food supply the answer will be whatever is most efficient. I don't like the monopolization of our food supply, but at this point it seems pretty much guaranteed.
@@chaschuky999 that’s why we need AI and robots to manage these complex farms. If you mix crops it’s actually more efficient land use with more produce per hectare. Just harder to manage ergo AI
@@kellymoses8566 oh, we need large scale farms. But they have to have mixed crops. For dairy and meat production we need an entirely new way of producing. Conventional farms aren‘t efficient and produce way too much greenhouse gases. That’s why we need to scale up the lab meat and milk :)
The laser weeders seem really cool, but they seem much narrower than the sprayers, wonder how much farmland is lost by increasing the amount of tram lines going the field to bring the laser over all the crops
What? Uh, chief the lasers are ON the tractor/equipment as it passes over - you don't need any lines, etc. as it's generated on the tractor itself. Did you seriously think there were wires and lasers all over the field just sitting there all day long? I've seen some dumb comments on this video but this one takes the cake!
@@ross-carlson ironic that you write such a condescending comment, when you don't even know what tram lines are. They are lines on the field without any crops for the wheels of the tractor. If you have 5 meter arms on each side of the tractor, you need tram lines every 10 meters. If you have 10 m arms you only need those empty lines on the field every 20 meters
I suspect that that laser weeder is narrower than a sprayer only because the laser weeder is still in research and development. Once they get the bugs worked out of the system, I suspect that they could scale up the size of the machine to the most practical size for a larger farm field. I think that the laser weeder shown in the video is operating in a scaled-down test plot situation.
I think this was your most hopeful video yet. Balanced with the right to repair and labour angles. Makes me want to live til 2084 to see how it all plays out. Well done. Keep it going, brilliant lady and team!
I worked in produce at a grocery store and waste was actually part of the system (though we did give that wasted food to a local pig farm, including all fruit and veggies scraps). So basically, in order to make sure you're making enough salsa, pineapple or watermelon mixes, you have to make enough to let some expire. Otherwise you might be running out when you could have sold 10 more. 40% waste was too much, but 5-20% was okay cuz gotta make some more money and keep the shelves looking full and nice. At least it went to the pigs and local food bank in our case.
That's how capitalism works though, the system only cares about profit. And I still work in grocery produce and the amount of waste I see on the daily is staggering. And in recent years it's going moldy/rotten a lot faster, and the overall size of fruits have gotten smaller. Cleo's map for feeding the world is nice and optimistic, but there's a few realities which muck it up. Firstly, we aren't even feeding the world as-is. There is still famine in many parts of the world, primarily in the global south. All the while we buy and eat produce like it'll be there forever in first-world nations (primarily the global north). Logistically we could feed the entire world now with a surplus, but it doesn't happen because... *jerks thumb at capitalism* Secondly, once again capitalism becomes a problem with agriculture. Cleo is right about monoculture farming though, but there's a missing context. Here in the U.S. farming is overwhelmingly dominated by two monocultures; Corn and soybeans. And those crops aren't used for human consumption, it all goes to animal feed, corn syrup, and ethanol. The grown produce that is consumed in the states is almost entirely in California, and most of that is stuff romaine lettuce, broccoli, and almonds. Lastly oranges from Florida, and that's it. Everything else we need is imported from South American nations or overseas. Most of our potatoes come from Canada, though the American ones are probably owned, grown, and sent to places to make McDonalds fries (that is a complete story in and of itself too). And lastly, this guy. Again. *jerks thumb at capitalism* Corporations have made headway within agriculture with their profit-driven motives. The second point of corn and soybeans is directly related to that, and it costs farmers dearly. Farmers nowadays are scrapping by with the debt of maintaining their farms, and as corporations stake their own claims it pushes the generational farmers out. They are forced to grow only corn and soybeans because that's what fetches the most money. And unlike corporations they need it to pay for their equipment, seeds, workers, etc. They got have safety nets in case harvests go bad or the price of what they grow is so low they would take a loss on it. I admire Cleo's optimism on farming and the tech, but the underlying reality is there is a lot more that needs to be done to make her vision of it a reality.
Big stores used to give a lot of produce to local food banks and then we would sort through it and give the stuff that was not fit for humans to the pig farmers. But the stores stopped donating. Maybe it's being disposed of some other way now.
@@dannyl2598 big stores start off with a fairly tight quality spec, so think of the amount of waste we see on the manufacturing end. My place can easily put in 300t of root vegetables in a day, of which 180t will make it to a retailer.
Videos like this really make it hit that we are living in a transitional period in human history and life is going to be wildly different in the decades to come in ways that we could've never imagined.
Nice, but there are two problems that need to be fixed and soon. First is to eliminate see patents so farmers can replant crops (greatly reducing the cost). Second is the right to repair ( as mentioned in the video).
Yaay agriculture content🤩 As a plant scientist (having both a background in horticulture and molecular plant biology), this makes me so happy to see🫶 One thing to add to the "feeding the world part": food losses, such as post-harvest losses and losses from private households, could, would they be saved instead, feed an estimated additional 2 billion people! So there is really two ways to work on this problem (and we need both): 1. Producing more; 2. Loosing / wasting less.
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Wow, that's nice. She makes you that much!! please. Is there a way to reach her services? I work 3 jobs and trying to pay off my debts for a while now, please help me.
Just think of all those poor typewriter and rotary telephone makers who are now out of business because you chose the scary computer or smartphone. Relax. The future is going to be awesome. Just stay tuned to Cleo.
So interesting, great content as always. Fair and balanced to acknowledge the issues with JD but collaborate with them at the same time. Honesty in media 👌🏼
Yeah, one of the local farmers built a GPS guided tractor in the early 2000s by himself. It was basically driving along a path he defined and controlled the machinery in the rear mostly by itself. It ecen turned around on its own. He was basically just on it to intervene in case sonething went wrong.
14:40 "We've already cleared the area of South America, and we can't keep doing that" - right on. Cleared forest is good for one, maybe two years of crop farming and then it's a barren desert 😬
The wind speed was too high for plowing -- you could see the wind blowing the topsoil away. Topsoil loss through wind and water erosion is a HUGE problem in the US. Your video illustrates that perfectly.
Something that bugs me with Step #4 ( 13:53 ) and all this in general. Never a word about the easiest solution to feen more people: Less obese people, and less overeating. Overeating isn't just bad for our health, but drastically hurt the environment. The obese eat more (so need more food), and it takes more energy to transport them (whether with train, car, buss, etc) which has to be produced and hurts the environment. Some obese people more then two average healthy people put together would eat. If we are to feed a whole world, the easiest way to reach that goal, is to Not eat more than we actually need to. Simple discipline can feed a billion more people, right now.
Yep! And people should absolutely stop drinking alcohol, taking any drugs, traveling for fun because by your logic all of it is wasteful and not the most efficient. When you get these, I am so smart thoughts, hold them in your brain for a bit before posting them online.
That's not the easiest. Not remotely, even. It is however simple. But you aren't going to get billions of people to easily stop overeating because you tell them it'll save the world.
@Mr-R.R. True. It's realistically hard. People lack discipline, and eating healthy is a lot more expensive. So it's not as easy as to just do it. But compared to the challenges, it's a breeze. If we all have to completely change our habits to save the planet on top of avoiding starvation. I'd say anything that contributes to both causes and improves general health should be the main goal.
One point is really underestimated. Shen we eat less meat, we could also feed more people, because eating the plants directly is so much more efficient
I love this series about how ML is changing our world. We are witnessing a new age of humanity and it’s amazing. Please do an episode on how ML is changing medicine, specifically drug discovery. We are on the edge of finding cures to terminal diseases!
In the US we consume 4000 calories for every man woman and child. Most of the food we grow is to feed animals which we then consume but we only get about 10% of the calories we put into feeding the animals. This is the case with most developed countries. Food shortages are not a problem with how much food we produce it's how we disseminate the food.
Pretty cool and all, but remember about 1.05 billion tonnes of food are wasted daily. Yes, every day. According to the USDA, the United States alone wastes between 30-40% of its food supply. By fixing that, we would certainly be closer to feeding everyone.
IMO the first step of the 5-step plan should be to reduce the amount of food people consume to healthy levels. Obesity is rising a lot in wealthy countries, which means that there are many people who are eating more calories than they need.
Recently discovered your channel thru my shorts feed and i couldnt be more happy with the algorithm. The topics, knowledge, demonstrations and investigations just give a perfect viewing experience for me, great job and thank you!
(03:15) Farming did not industrialize to meet a higher population. Industrilazation and more importantly colonilasation, had the goal of more protfit and that was what changed farming. There was always enough food available, it was about WHO got to eat that food.
Homeschool mom of 4 here. Cleo, you are one of my go tos (along with Johnny and Mark) for sharing important questions with my kids, and giving them examples of critical thinking and creative problem solving. ❤From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!
This tech is not being developed "because the world population is exploding". That would mean that a well meaning, coordinated, logical effort was being made to solve the problem of population growth and food scarcity. It would be great if that was what was happening. It would mean that we could actually start to solve the problem of feeding the hungry, around the world. What this really is, is same o same o capitalism. These companies are building these machines to make profit and their advancements will be available to those who will be able to afford to pay for them. In reality, they will not boost food production efficiency, they might increase profit for these companies, that will possibly have the side effect of increased food production efficiency, for those tat can afford it. Your framing of the subject matter, greatly impacts the integrity of your reporting.
Thank you for watching our video! I really appreciate the conversation around distribution, and the balance between fixing where our current crop calories go (biofuels, meat, waste, and more) and growing more (given the way our current food distribution system works). This is what makes this community special.
The topic of farming and feeding more people is incredibly nuanced. It’s not just an issue of growing more and different food, but more efficient distribution, less waste, and more accessible tech.
If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, including the nuances in how governments and organizations are proposing we solve food insecurity, check out our sources in the video description.
This was very well put together. It was fun watching you get excited to run the equipment. I still feel that way every time I get in too.
It's a complex topic but if people watch the whole video I think you do a really nice job breaking down everything
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e por isso que temos pandemias, para diminuir a população. já foi pensado e criado essa certa coisa para isso, diabólico né?
A great video. Youre right, it is a really complicated and nuanced topic. I wish you covered more on the right to repair issue, given e-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Perhaps a video about this very issue would be cool!
Remember folks, John Deere had to be taken to court for farmers to have the right to repair and are still fighting it.
We should all have the right to repair. I want to repair my Toyota and can't even change the tires (due to TPMS sensors) or update the firmware without taking it to a dealership.
Also it specifically has to be a Toyota dealership. Regular mechanics can't access the car's computer system. It's a racket. I'm sure these farmers feel the same way.
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Yeah that’s why at 2:30 she mentioned it. Did you actually watch the video???
@@RvB_Fan_since_8 I'm sure he did hence the post reinforcing the point and adding additional information about how they're still fighting it.
@@RvB_Fan_since_8 calm down white knight
THIS. is true journalism.
The moment I heard John Deere, i fully was conditioned to expect that there would be no mention of the Right to Repair controversy but the fact that it gets talked about instantly speaks volumwa to the journalistic integrity and the ethics of Cleo and her team. Massive props!
No mention of the hundreds of John Deere layoffs last week.
@@dllemmbecause it's completely relevant to the topic of the video?
To be fair, it was merely a name drop of the issue.
That's like toeing the line to make sure your audience doesn't get upset, but you also don't get blacklisted by John Deere for any future videos.
I doubt they would've been happy with this video if she'd actually spent one minute explaining why right to repair is _especially_ terrible for farmers.
(it's morally reprehensible in every sector, but if your entire year's harvest goes to waste because you're waiting until a dude's schedule opens up so he can come unlock the software (again) after a hardware part got replaced.... Oof)
John Deere has been a bit of a villain in the right to repair battle, but this is some really cool tech. If society & lawmakers can curb the greed of some of the money men involved, hopefully the engineers can just get to keep working on this amazing stuff.
Ideally on the other side of a greedy corporation, there are well compensated engineers. I noticed that often the most anti-consumer companies are rated as the best workplaces, at least for software engineers. Apple and Adobe are two examples that come to mind.
A bit of a villan?
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@@szaszm_ That's my father, and the mothers and fathers of everyone I grew up with. While recent layoffs at Deere's have soured attitudes some, that R&D and (stateside)Production have given many middle-Americans, and their children, futures outside of agriculture and government jobs.
The poverty my family was able to escape because of engineering and finance jobs at JD in the 70s has allowed multiple generations to avoid such destitution.
I make no excuses for the outsourcing of jobs, factories, nor the monopolistic stance on intellectual property vs real ownership. I'm a Louis Rossman supporter that also owes a lot to the longevity of ag capitalism.
Without the money there’s little incentive to innovate.
Never mind JD.. whats up with China owning so much US farm land?
I grew up on a farm. One of my brothers and his son manage the farm now which consists of about 3300 acres of crops in SE Washington state. Our crops include wheat, barley, malt barley, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), lentils, canola, dry peas, bluegrass seed, and Timothy seed.
You really did an excellent job on this video. You covered a lot of new technology in a clear and understandable manner and with lots of enthusiasm (as usual). It was also good that you touched on the right to repair the complex equipment as it is a big issue in farming. What some people may not realize is that this challenge with legislation concerning right to repair touches numerous industries, not just agriculture (or it will in the future), so it is important to get it right for both consumers and manufacturers to do well. If you want the right to repair your car, computer, smartphone, refrigerator, etc. in the future, then the right to repair legislation should be important to you.
You're creating a lot of must-see content on every subject that you tackle. Very interesting.
I am from Washington too. We are more than onions and apples!
I'm so glad you didn't shy away from the problems.
It really helps highlight why the new technology (and hopefully legislation) are so important and so impressive, and so necessary. Less chemicals, more food, doesn't just mean better profits, it means a more reusable planet. Ecology and economics on the same side.
yes that's why we love her. This time she makes a video in which i'm not interested , still i love how she makes everything clear.
Nicely put. 🙏
Personally I believe ecology and economics on the same side can only happen under socialism. Capitalism is just not compatible with nature, u can try to make it compatible but it will be an endless uphill battle. Ain’t nobody got time for that. not you, me, or the planet.
She shied away from a huge problem: ~70% of food grown in the US is fed to livestock. Incredible waste of water and land, an inefficient way to feed a population
@@BromaniJones she literally says that at 13:55, did you even watch the video?
There isn't a lack of food, there is too much food waste. SuperMarkets/Stores dump millions of tonnes of food each year, most of it perfectly fine. And there is also the millions of tonnes of food farmers are forced to throw away because they are miss-shaped, have slight imperfections or just don't meet the ridiculous specifications of Super Markets.
Yeah she raised an amazing statistic of 25% of food is waste. Just fixing this will let us feed all the people. Who cares about the shape - i care about the taste, freshness and nutrition
Came here to say this too - between 1/5 and 1/4 of all food is wasted, and the types of food we produce are not necessarily the best for feeding people. It's not a food issue, it's an equity issue
Food doesn't last long, how do you get it to those that need it before it spoils? And supermarkets set those standards because the customers set it at the checkout.
@@benwilms3942 it does last. Flash frozen or canned in a healthy way
@samanjj oh so at huge extra cost. And it would OBVIOUSLY be at extra cost. I'll explain why. Because the ability to spend the money freezing or canning it is already possible, making it sellable, but companies have determined there isn't profit enough warrant it..... soooo there isn't an income stream to cover the cost of such treatment, so it's a huge cost.
Meanwhile, one single groundhog keeps wiping out my homemade garden of 1 squash plant and 1 cucumber plant. LOL
As a Dutch farmer i think there is enough soil if we are more productive! The netherlands is the second biggest exporter of agriculture goods( after America what is 228 times bigger) While living on one of the most densely populated country’s in the world! Because our fields are limited and expansive, we are forced to take good care of our soil and use every inch of our fields! Price of hectare is around 200.000 euros now a day! If in America they will work like we do here for decades, every thing will be okay! Good video!
As an American, Americans will never work with the efficiency of the Dutch unfortunately
@@alexrogers777 Unless pushed.
THe Netherlands isn't anywhere close to the second largest exporter of agricultural goods, you aren't even in the top 20. What are you talking about?
Ahh, I just went and looked it up, you are talking about in billions of dollars annually. But that is because you charge 8x (on average) what the other large exporters charge for produce. Grains from you cost more than 5x what they did from Ukraine before the war, and you've only increased that since, because that is the most Dutch thing you can do. Pretend to be good, then screw everybody over off war profiteering, like say with wool or textiles.
If american upper class stop eating they way the eat we will be fine
It is extremely sad that your government, along with other western governments is doing everything possible to destroy that efficency and productivity
Waiting to hear whether or not they can repair their own equipment
Lol they won't be able to. For their "security" of course. Nothing to do with corporate greed.
2:33, yup.
Is that the only time it's mentioned? Our food supply is going to be owned by one person and an army of robots. @@va1korion
@13:30 too. Glad Cleo bookended the video with the issue. Cool tech, but is it making farming more affordable or are farmers losing their land to tech companies?
@@onnaquest The latter, sometimes directly selling out to Bill Gates in NE for example.
"Gates now owns around 20,000 acres of farmland across 19 counties in Nebraska after selling some land in recent years."
*John Deere care more about money than they do the farmers. Farmers have been fixing their own equipment since the beginning of time!! John Deere is seeing to it that they can't do that anymore. Force the farmer to have John Deere fix their equipment's for big bucks, $$$$.*
Agricultural Lending is one of the most predatory areas of finance, and tech getting involved doesn't mean anything good for small farms. It's not just problems for farm labor that face problems, accessing these machines will also bankrupt small farmers. John Deere's captive lending practices are particularly predatory in this regard. This technology is absolutely huge if true, I just hope we can implement with empathy.
We don't need you to run those machines anyway. One central big tech can just use robots who will work 24h/24, 7d/7, for them. You're not needed anymore.
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra. the concern I have though is who’s going to pay for this technology on small farms? It’s not going to be possible without extreme financing, and those terms won’t be favorable. Extortionate interest rates, using farm itself as collateral, or taking so much of the farm’s crop yield they can’t turn a profit are already common practices from Ag lenders on things like tractors and seeds. Now we’re adding in million dollar technology, that’s only going to get worse, and if potential buyers are mandating it of their growers to try to guarantee yield but not partially or fully funding it, small farmers are screwed.
@@torisandifer518 goverment incentives like they have been doing for years
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra.I don't think it's the best idea to make global food supply a monopoly. Agriculture is literally what our lives depends on (many people tend to forget that nowadays), and that would be too much power for one or even few companies to have. It's all tricky...
My Glib first thought reading your post was 'Is there an area of Finance that's NOT predatory?' But inflicting it on farmers is an entirely different field to inflicting it on people trapped on welfare to buy a vehicle to get them to a Job. People on welfare use the vehicle itself as the collateral, but Farmers are forced to use a family farms' equity that has been built over generations. A person getting their Hyundai Sonata repossessed is a whole scale away from a multi-generational Farming family losing their Land. I wasn't aware that the massive corporate Buyers could also mandate what equipment they expect Producers to use. As @spulwasser points out, it's all tricky...
As a farmer from a third world country, we are not even remotely close to using or affording any of this tech
But somehow you managed to view this video and comment on it via the internet and, presumably, some kind of supercomputer. (Maybe even handheld.)
So there is a time when everything will feel out of reach for the third world, and then, a time when it is well developed and scaled enough to be distributed widely in the third world.
Someone has to do it first!
Great video as always. Glad you covered the right to repair stuff as well. This channel is killing it.
I always imagined that the coolest thing to come out of automation doesnt happen in Factories, but in the way agriculture changes
I keep hearing about the need for upping crop production, but the one thing that I have personally deal with is the amount of food wasted. The idea that we need to grow more stuff and yet food is being thrown away every single day is astonishing.
11:51 The caption should have been holding on for Deere life.
Me after 26 beers: 0:22
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Hello ma'am, Great video!
While these large-scale farmers can use these mega machines, what about the small-scale farmers?
For example, in India, 85% of the farmers are small-scale farmers and they hold about 80% of the total farming land, they can't afford these machines.
In my opinion, to create a bigger impact, there's a need for small, affordable, but equally effective machines.
i think that there needs to be laws to make farmers become cartellized.
if you're living close to another farmer, you can rent a big mahcine that the state buys for a rental fee together, but it must be shared, it's up to the farmers to decide on what to do with maintenance, fines and other punishments.
create small cartells and large syndicates for farming, where the small decentralized farmers vote for a syndicate council. One representative per 200 people or so would be good, and they're not full time, just part time representative, and with so many representatives per person, they're less likely to be corrupt.
The modernization of the industry leads to secondary work, like travelling mechanics. However I think it doesn't need to go this fast.
As India modernizes naturally without any interference, children will start to move away from farming and less and less children will stay in the job, making modernization inevitable
those need to go obviously. only space for mega corporations
Yes like Jugadu kamlesh's innovative product shown in shark tank
Developing this tech will eventually make it cheaper and accessible. Just like how smartphones are today. No one is stopping any development for smaller farmers. John Deere just specialises in large scale farming
@@hpgramani Yes his product is one of the good examples, while it is more centred towards easing farmers' workload, we need products that use the latest technologies to increase yield effectively.
This wonderful technology-and it is cool-works great for big corporate, farmers, but small farmers can’t afford it, and farmers who can afford it aren’t allowed to repair it themselves. They can lose three or four days of work waiting for a certified repairman to show up to fix their tractors or software, and the repairs are often very expensive.
It says a lot about me that I saw the map at 4:18 & my first thought was 'I wonder how big each of those fields are on average'.
Because I have nothing better to do with my life atm, I have actually figured this out.
I counted 42 complete or near-complete fields (the picture isn't very clear, so this may be inaccurate), so I'll round up to 45 to account for the incomplete fields I did not count originally. South America has an area of 17.84m square km's, so each of those fields is about 376,444 square km's, which is bigger than Japan & Norway. If my rounding makes the total number of fields an overestimate, then the fields will be slightly larger & would be closer in size to Paraguay & California. All sources for size of territories are from Wikipedia.
(Also, this is mainly for Cleo, I did read all the way to the bottom of the description, so I'll tell you now that I am secretly very good at tennis. Whether that is true or not is for you to decide)
Thank you for wasting your time & reading this comment.
I know this is asking a lot and the HiT is already super busy. But I feel like the show is taking on more topics that deserve longer videos. 40-60min. I love learning about all this stuff. Thank you Cleo.
To start farming now, all you need is about $1.5 million for equipment, another $1.5 million for equipment and you’re all set.
And about $5 million in land to make enough to pay back the loans on the equipment
@@gopackgo933 I meant to write $1.5 million for equipment and $1.5 million for land but you’re right. That’s probably low for the equipment and the land. I don’t know how farmers do it today.
12:45 I'm so happy you realise this. The answer to AI-enable eco-friendly farming with increased yields isn't some John Deere mega-machine that repeats the same mistakes of the past - they're only that big because its an efficient use of human labour. Take the human out of the driving seat and reimagine what "farm machinery" could look like and you realise that permaculture is the way forward. Right now it's niche because it takes a lot of human labour - but if you can automate a lot of the tasks, you'd land up with a system that's profitable, resource-efficient and land-efficient. It's a massive opportunity that it seems very few entrepreneurs have woken up to.
As a software developper working with AI, and having gone through a 2 weeks permaculture design course, I do not believe we're there yet. I love the idea, but the versatility needed by a worker (human or machine) to manage a permaculture "field" makes it too difficult to scale up - at least for the time being.
@@ShamWerks Sure, I agree it's "not there yet", but as entrepreneurs we don't need to wait for that! As you probably know, the advances in computer vision and robotics have been significant in recent years and we're starting to see increasingly general-purpose (including humanoid) robots get close to mass production that could surely do at least some of the tasks in permaculture. Frankly, a lot of the work in permaculture is just carrying stuff around(!), so at the point we can make a robot that can pick up (most) objects, carry them through a garden and put them down again, you could double the productivity of a human permaculturalist. As permaculture is *so* much more space and resource efficient than industrial agriculture, we don't need to entirely replace humans in order to make permaculture cost-competitive.
Cleo, these machines apply to industrial scale farms. What about the smaller farm plots that are prevalent in Emerging Countries? These farms cannot afford to buy these machines and rely primarily on manual labor, pesticides, and fertilizers to grow food. How do we make these farms substantially more productive as well?
If the big industries buy enough of a product to warrant larger batch manufacturing of the individual components and drive down manufacturing costs the parts become cheap enough to develop consumer versions that are still profitable.
Just give the new technology a little time to trickle down to the little guy.
@@mattf9096 Correct. Well put.
being 'high tech' does not make a product irreparable by the user
Just to be clear, there's no such thing as shortage of labor, only shortage of wages. Every video that touches on this makes this basic mistake. I would be happy to work in a farm so long as they pay me enough to justify the effort (schedule, transportation, healthcare, insurance, meals, oportunity cost)
When corporations can remotely turn off farming. We have a problem.
13:50 Please consider #4 - it's healthier for you and it's the one thing on this list that YOU can do yourself. Notice how she just breezes right past it, because nobody is getting rich on you eating more plants and less of your fellow animals.
Excellent video. Consider making a huge if true episode about point 5 " reducing food waste". Thanks.
The right to repair is a RIGHT, not a privilege! Open Source everything!
Part of me wants to agree with you, yet history has shown that _competition_ more rapidly drives innovation and the two prominent and successful forms of competition that we've seen time and time again through history are financial and actual war.
Can open source work? Absolutely. But it doesn't work in all areas and it absolutely doesn't work at the same pace as capitalism-driven innovation does.
"Open Source Ecology" (OSE) has been around for 21 years, but they're still _no where even close_ to being able to provide plans/equipment comparable to what she highlights John Deere doing. (To be clear, they aren't explicitly trying to, but the closest thing that they currently have is a micro-tractor, which they list as being in the "prototype" phase. They do list a tractor, but that looks they've made _drastically_ less progress on.)
It is only a right if the government says it is.
They do not :(
Fourth agriculture revolution would be farming microbes in a bioreactor. Like making milk by feeding sugar to microbes instead of from cow. This is just making the current agricultural system better and more efficient.
We can already do that, and a flour replacement.
At least you're not being totally and completely pedantic about a definition - one that I'm guessing you have no real knowledge of, you just wanted to feel smart and try to correct someone.
Great job incorrecting her.
i feel like if we manage to get to high-yield intercropping it would actually be a very meaningful increase in our food production in terms of meaningful amounts of increase in available farmland. that would qualify as another revolution
I do like your sci-fi level thinking though - it might not be as impossible as I think it is considering how ancient civilizations literally managed to invent crops like potatoes and corn.
Why do you decide that? Who put you in charge?
I think it would be better if we just unlearn grown ups eating baby food...
What is presented here doesn’t increase foid production, it just requires less man power or use less pesticide but it doesn’t really increase production per acte.
And the tractor is from John Dree, one of the garbage companies that believes farmers shouldn't be able to fix their equipment
The high prices of these machines only benefit large corporations. The technology is so expensive that it’s often only financially sustainable on large scale farms leading to bigger fields and less diversity in plants. The solution to the farming problem is switching to permaculture and food forests which support biodiversity and make land use more efficient. AI can also help managing complex farms. John Deer is only creating new problems :)
Intercropping is also fine :)
I think we are inevitably going to see the farm size gap increase. The amount of managerial resources required for a permaculture are way higher than those required for monoculture farming. I can see it being feasible at the very small scale, but I think the big fields will continue to be monoculture for a long time. The efficiency of a small farm is simply lower than a massive conglomerate, and if we need a 50% increase in food supply the answer will be whatever is most efficient. I don't like the monopolization of our food supply, but at this point it seems pretty much guaranteed.
Large scale farms are inherently more efficient than small farms. I worked on a smaller dairy farm and it was absurdly inefficient.
@@chaschuky999 that’s why we need AI and robots to manage these complex farms. If you mix crops it’s actually more efficient land use with more produce per hectare. Just harder to manage ergo AI
@@kellymoses8566 oh, we need large scale farms. But they have to have mixed crops. For dairy and meat production we need an entirely new way of producing. Conventional farms aren‘t efficient and produce way too much greenhouse gases. That’s why we need to scale up the lab meat and milk :)
You missed one HUGE thing. We ALREADY make enough food to feed 10 Billion plus people, but the food isn't distributed equitably.
Does that mean that farming equipment should not be improved?
@@enadegheeghaghe6369 it means we shouldn't be as invested in improvement as say, distribution
@@aviralgupta393 why not do both? If farming equipment can be improved then why not do so? Why is always one or the other with you folks?
14:04 it's #5, I was thinking the same thing xD
@@TreesPlease42yes number 5 does indirectly mention it, but I think it is important to explicitly mention that we already make more than enough food.
I'm really glad you talked about John Deere right from the start, right to repair is so important for primary producers
The laser weeders seem really cool, but they seem much narrower than the sprayers, wonder how much farmland is lost by increasing the amount of tram lines going the field to bring the laser over all the crops
What? Uh, chief the lasers are ON the tractor/equipment as it passes over - you don't need any lines, etc. as it's generated on the tractor itself. Did you seriously think there were wires and lasers all over the field just sitting there all day long? I've seen some dumb comments on this video but this one takes the cake!
@@ross-carlson ironic that you write such a condescending comment, when you don't even know what tram lines are. They are lines on the field without any crops for the wheels of the tractor. If you have 5 meter arms on each side of the tractor, you need tram lines every 10 meters. If you have 10 m arms you only need those empty lines on the field every 20 meters
@@Paeddl42 I know them as 'wheelings' (UK, might be slang)
I suspect that that laser weeder is narrower than a sprayer only because the laser weeder is still in research and development. Once they get the bugs worked out of the system, I suspect that they could scale up the size of the machine to the most practical size for a larger farm field. I think that the laser weeder shown in the video is operating in a scaled-down test plot situation.
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Farming is so underrated and we should take care of this world! Farmers should be much more protected!
1:59 She’s still posting video so i guess she’s still alive after shooting this video LOL 😅
It’s funny that you just posted this video because RIGHT NOW John Deere is having HUGE lay offs. Really sucks.
Well HAY! If they get lost do you need to TRACTOR them down??
:D
In hopes of finding out the truth, he entered the one-room library.
We are very wasteful when it comes to our food, even more in restaurants.
Yep, we can see
I think this was your most hopeful video yet. Balanced with the right to repair and labour angles. Makes me want to live til 2084 to see how it all plays out. Well done. Keep it going, brilliant lady and team!
I worked in produce at a grocery store and waste was actually part of the system (though we did give that wasted food to a local pig farm, including all fruit and veggies scraps). So basically, in order to make sure you're making enough salsa, pineapple or watermelon mixes, you have to make enough to let some expire. Otherwise you might be running out when you could have sold 10 more. 40% waste was too much, but 5-20% was okay cuz gotta make some more money and keep the shelves looking full and nice. At least it went to the pigs and local food bank in our case.
That's how capitalism works though, the system only cares about profit. And I still work in grocery produce and the amount of waste I see on the daily is staggering. And in recent years it's going moldy/rotten a lot faster, and the overall size of fruits have gotten smaller. Cleo's map for feeding the world is nice and optimistic, but there's a few realities which muck it up. Firstly, we aren't even feeding the world as-is. There is still famine in many parts of the world, primarily in the global south. All the while we buy and eat produce like it'll be there forever in first-world nations (primarily the global north). Logistically we could feed the entire world now with a surplus, but it doesn't happen because... *jerks thumb at capitalism*
Secondly, once again capitalism becomes a problem with agriculture. Cleo is right about monoculture farming though, but there's a missing context. Here in the U.S. farming is overwhelmingly dominated by two monocultures; Corn and soybeans. And those crops aren't used for human consumption, it all goes to animal feed, corn syrup, and ethanol. The grown produce that is consumed in the states is almost entirely in California, and most of that is stuff romaine lettuce, broccoli, and almonds. Lastly oranges from Florida, and that's it. Everything else we need is imported from South American nations or overseas. Most of our potatoes come from Canada, though the American ones are probably owned, grown, and sent to places to make McDonalds fries (that is a complete story in and of itself too).
And lastly, this guy. Again. *jerks thumb at capitalism* Corporations have made headway within agriculture with their profit-driven motives. The second point of corn and soybeans is directly related to that, and it costs farmers dearly. Farmers nowadays are scrapping by with the debt of maintaining their farms, and as corporations stake their own claims it pushes the generational farmers out. They are forced to grow only corn and soybeans because that's what fetches the most money. And unlike corporations they need it to pay for their equipment, seeds, workers, etc. They got have safety nets in case harvests go bad or the price of what they grow is so low they would take a loss on it.
I admire Cleo's optimism on farming and the tech, but the underlying reality is there is a lot more that needs to be done to make her vision of it a reality.
Big stores used to give a lot of produce to local food banks and then we would sort through it and give the stuff that was not fit for humans to the pig farmers. But the stores stopped donating. Maybe it's being disposed of some other way now.
@@dannyl2598 The store I worked at still donates all there left over produce and scraps to pigs and the local food bank.
@@dannyl2598 big stores start off with a fairly tight quality spec, so think of the amount of waste we see on the manufacturing end. My place can easily put in 300t of root vegetables in a day, of which 180t will make it to a retailer.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
The problem to feed all humans is not the lack of food, it's the system that treats food like a commodity so not everyone can access it.
I don't see a problem with food being a commodity. You trade money earned by your work for food produced by a farmers work.
So you want the farmers to work for free?
I think the US should stop giving food away, especially to countries that don't like the west.
@@everypitchcounts4875 Why do they not like us?
@@basedbulgarian511 That's a strawman and you know it, that's not at all what op said
Videos like this really make it hit that we are living in a transitional period in human history and life is going to be wildly different in the decades to come in ways that we could've never imagined.
Nice, but there are two problems that need to be fixed and soon. First is to eliminate see patents so farmers can replant crops (greatly reducing the cost). Second is the right to repair ( as mentioned in the video).
I still find it crazy that this level of production is made by a UA-camr... not a full on production company for TV. It is awesome.
cool farmers be like "let's glitch production of food guys"
There was no ice cream in the freezer, nor did they have money to go to the store.
Yaay agriculture content🤩 As a plant scientist (having both a background in horticulture and molecular plant biology), this makes me so happy to see🫶
One thing to add to the "feeding the world part": food losses, such as post-harvest losses and losses from private households, could, would they be saved instead, feed an estimated additional 2 billion people! So there is really two ways to work on this problem (and we need both): 1. Producing more; 2. Loosing / wasting less.
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As someone who comes from a family of farmers- this would revolutionise my relatives work! Thank you for sharing
Wow, an intelligent comment and shocking it came from someone who actually knows about farming. The comments here are insane.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
More power to the big corporates. Small farmer is the past . Future is scary
Just think of all those poor typewriter and rotary telephone makers who are now out of business because you chose the scary computer or smartphone.
Relax. The future is going to be awesome. Just stay tuned to Cleo.
So interesting, great content as always. Fair and balanced to acknowledge the issues with JD but collaborate with them at the same time. Honesty in media 👌🏼
Indoor farming is the future. Tiny land, water, and no bugs, so no pesticides.
There’s one amazing place in NJ near Giants Stadium.
Didn't mention the role GMO crops could play. So much potential being held back by unbased fears.
I really dont know much about farming, but this was very informative. Nvidia is taking over the world.
Tis a noble endeavor to feed the World whilst not ravaging it. Nobler still to do so without fleecing the farmer.
BS! World population is going down! How many kids do you have vs your parents???????????
True!
actually yes! This generation has much less kids than baby boomers!
@@SilvanaRahimi Yup!
You guys are bots right? Can't possibly be that unaware.
Thats the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
You should have gone to The Netherlands Wageningen University here you will find the top stuff of farming
Farmers of the world, keep fighting John Deere.
Good job by John Deere's PR team
"The world's population is exploding", every demographer watching: 🤦🤦🤦🤦
great tractors...
IF YOU COULD REPAIR THEM WHEN THEY BREAK DOWN!
In my experience, the more electronics you use, the more that will fail.
More tech, the more down time.
Also those sensors are EXPENSIVE
Yeah, one of the local farmers built a GPS guided tractor in the early 2000s by himself. It was basically driving along a path he defined and controlled the machinery in the rear mostly by itself. It ecen turned around on its own. He was basically just on it to intervene in case sonething went wrong.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
14:40 "We've already cleared the area of South America, and we can't keep doing that" - right on. Cleared forest is good for one, maybe two years of crop farming and then it's a barren desert 😬
Funny, I didn’t realize all these farms that have been around for GENERATIONS only manage one or two SEASONS. That’s some seriously long seasons.
@@brendykes1202 Funny, I didn't realise anyone could be quite so obtuse about something so important.
@@christopherbedford9897 look around. Lots of farms on cleared forest land for generations and they haven’t turned into deserts. Simple observation.
My company is involved in the autonomous tractors that zap weeds with lasers. They're awesome!
Most of the land is used not to feed people, but to feed the animals that people eat. Meat eating is extremely inefficient.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
Much simpler solution…..go vegetarian. Eating less meat is critical. Support local farmers and not huge corporations.
The wind speed was too high for plowing -- you could see the wind blowing the topsoil away. Topsoil loss through wind and water erosion is a HUGE problem in the US. Your video illustrates that perfectly.
Something that bugs me with Step #4 ( 13:53 ) and all this in general. Never a word about the easiest solution to feen more people: Less obese people, and less overeating. Overeating isn't just bad for our health, but drastically hurt the environment. The obese eat more (so need more food), and it takes more energy to transport them (whether with train, car, buss, etc) which has to be produced and hurts the environment. Some obese people more then two average healthy people put together would eat. If we are to feed a whole world, the easiest way to reach that goal, is to Not eat more than we actually need to. Simple discipline can feed a billion more people, right now.
Yep! And people should absolutely stop drinking alcohol, taking any drugs, traveling for fun because by your logic all of it is wasteful and not the most efficient. When you get these, I am so smart thoughts, hold them in your brain for a bit before posting them online.
You are correct my son..
That's not the easiest. Not remotely, even. It is however simple. But you aren't going to get billions of people to easily stop overeating because you tell them it'll save the world.
@Mr-R.R. True. It's realistically hard. People lack discipline, and eating healthy is a lot more expensive. So it's not as easy as to just do it. But compared to the challenges, it's a breeze. If we all have to completely change our habits to save the planet on top of avoiding starvation. I'd say anything that contributes to both causes and improves general health should be the main goal.
@@NareshJain Educating children to eat a healthy amount would be the first step. Why would it not be possible? Look at how Japan is doing it.
See and Spray is controversal since they have to pay John Deere for every acre used on, like a subscription
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Oh my 4 year old is obsessed with robots and farming and bam, this video comes out. Perfect time Cleo! He loved it.
One point is really underestimated. Shen we eat less meat, we could also feed more people, because eating the plants directly is so much more efficient
They going to send these to mars?😂
0:52 but that’s weird since people aren’t having kids in most of the western world. is Africa going to carry all that booming ?
Arab world
I love this series about how ML is changing our world. We are witnessing a new age of humanity and it’s amazing. Please do an episode on how ML is changing medicine, specifically drug discovery. We are on the edge of finding cures to terminal diseases!
In the US we consume 4000 calories for every man woman and child. Most of the food we grow is to feed animals which we then consume but we only get about 10% of the calories we put into feeding the animals. This is the case with most developed countries. Food shortages are not a problem with how much food we produce it's how we disseminate the food.
Pretty cool and all, but remember about 1.05 billion tonnes of food are wasted daily. Yes, every day.
According to the USDA, the United States alone wastes between 30-40% of its food supply.
By fixing that, we would certainly be closer to feeding everyone.
We should first eliminate food waste as much as possible, before producing more of it.
Why?
@@PappaTom-ub3ht
40% of food produced is already wasted.
If we just make more, it just gets added to more wasted food.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
IMO the first step of the 5-step plan should be to reduce the amount of food people consume to healthy levels.
Obesity is rising a lot in wealthy countries, which means that there are many people who are eating more calories than they need.
Wealthy countries should stop giving so much of its food away, especially to countries that don't like those wealthy countries.
@@everypitchcounts4875 Giving away, lol. You mean selling for profit. But yes, food should be produced and consumed locally.
Recently discovered your channel thru my shorts feed and i couldnt be more happy with the algorithm. The topics, knowledge, demonstrations and investigations just give a perfect viewing experience for me, great job and thank you!
(03:15) Farming did not industrialize to meet a higher population. Industrilazation and more importantly colonilasation, had the goal of more protfit and that was what changed farming. There was always enough food available, it was about WHO got to eat that food.
How much did John Deere pay in sponsorship lol
Remember this: the Netherlands is destroying all cool things in this video. They are the most OP country in the world.
Homeschool mom of 4 here. Cleo, you are one of my go tos (along with Johnny and Mark) for sharing important questions with my kids, and giving them examples of critical thinking and creative problem solving. ❤From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!
Situps are a terrible way to end your day.
This tech is not being developed "because the world population is exploding". That would mean that a well meaning, coordinated, logical effort was being made to solve the problem of population growth and food scarcity. It would be great if that was what was happening. It would mean that we could actually start to solve the problem of feeding the hungry, around the world. What this really is, is same o same o capitalism. These companies are building these machines to make profit and their advancements will be available to those who will be able to afford to pay for them. In reality, they will not boost food production efficiency, they might increase profit for these companies, that will possibly have the side effect of increased food production efficiency, for those tat can afford it. Your framing of the subject matter, greatly impacts the integrity of your reporting.