The digital revolution is already in full swing here in the fields of northern germany at the moment a transmits datta from the asparagus crop. Is fixed theyre sending out signals from in here now also its the first smartphone assisted harvest that asparagus fama hine of bottles has ever done. If youre all going to get an idea of when we can actually start harvesting thought. What makes the optimal count for modern day are a farming thats what breed a consultant. Wants to find out. By seeking out super sperm that can optimize the odds for modern milking machines but how does it work. For. Us. What were doing here has nothing to do with traditional nature. Which many people might like to imagine forget of course the. Corn has a new enemy its small but not to be underestimated it can destroy entire crops could a drone help to keep it by current maya hopes our hero. Could Digital Technology outperform nature. Its light spring and an experiment is about to begin burned maya is an amateur drone pilot and he works for a cooperative in secret is thats carrying out a test that is also a specialist in digitalized crop cultivation you were part of the deal with all the pharma burned my now hired him he wants to stop a pest no result cool in burra from destroying his crops the corn burra has migrated to northern germany because of Climate Change its lava eat into the storks which makes them bend and they can no longer be harvested. My no worries hell lose up to thirty percent of his harvest he wants to eradicate the corn burra without chemicals. We need a way to fight it off and so we can and im sure that at some point the titians will banned chemical methods of killing the corn bore like they have with many other things because whatever it makes sense or not was a good song we should try something new or unleash the english there will be one of those morsels burned my up plans to fly a drone over his fields easier said. Problem is those turbines have them because im flying through a gap of ten meters and the system isnt so accurate that i can get right in the middle five meters on each side of the cricket in must. This is pest control four point never before tempted here in northern germany the next step is programming the flight route. Thats coming here i can mark out where the field is. So its a flight map for the drawing. So i mock it and then lay the flight map on top. So far mine has been trying to fight off the past on foot now theyre attempting to attack it from the. The drug will scatter biological pesticide without chemicals everything can be programmed precisely like the flight you ration direction speed and the altitude of the drone ofin if hes nervous the experiment could still file. Your virus for me i absolutely this is completely New Territory for me my hand about wire will come to fly twice at intervals of ten or fourteen days. If we have an easterly wind one time and a westerly wind the other of the no idea whats going to happen. It requires a lot of trust and this whole thing isnt cheap it. The pharma is paying the cooperatives sixteen thousand euros he doesnt get any kind of subsidy. You know. This dairy farm in the state of mega book for common has five hundred pounds. Breeding consultant Johana Chandel has just started work today is inspection day. Almost straight away you know how they can identify the counts with portumna to try to thirty five dairy farms in the region rely on her expertise. Gunther bacteria to put it very simply optimizing the cow thats in a nutshell i know so if a cow has knocked knees i need to find her a bowl with very parallel legs so that the cows daughter also has parallel legs under the cool but by what. North german dairy farms compete on the world market so they need counts that work as efficiently as possible within the machines. Its twenty eight year old you hannahs job to find them she works for. The largest cattle Breeding Company in the state of mad limbo for prominent johana is looking for deficiencies in the animals to make sure theyre not passed on she checks fifty cows an hour. I start with the order the owner has top priority when i look at the legs whether the pelvis is in the correct position and if the shoulders are broad and basically whether shes on the big side or if shes a more slender animal. With the others i check that the teeth sit correctly or if theyre too close together. Far apart too short or whether theyre nice and tight. The animals bodies become statistics of how well the machines. I welcome any. I have all the cows listed on my phone abbreviated by traits like size milk character body depth strength. Clinician pelvic spread angle of hind legs who fangirl and so on look theyre curious. To seventy four i dont need who are you to twenty six you can call. If the owner is in shape correctly then milk then has to think about how to attach the equipment. And hangs too low they might not be able to get underneath it and then sadly the cow has to leave even though shes otherwise healthy. If you cant knock her then she has to go we want to avoid that kind of situation. In this case main slaughtered every cow has a chip that sends darted to the herd many just computer milking takes place three times a day with the Council Working in shifts to keep up with rock bottom milk prices of thirty cents a liter the machines have to work at maximum efficiency. A turnstile recognises every cow by its chip five hundred cows follow each other through here pass one single milk calf. One cow or produces thirty two liters of milk a day the system calculates the Rotation Speed of the rotary milking parlor based on the milk flow and the milk quantity the previous day the cows are usually out of one rotation and if not the system automatically reduces the speed the computer transmits the milk yield in real time. Herd manager. Spends more time here than in the barn. This should be its hard to do this without the technology because the numbers say much more than anything else i can work much better with real numbers than just looking into a crystal. Ball. Stefans heard Management System can help him to predict the perfect cow by Ancestry Health and milk composition even the cut chewing time in the corresponding feed rations amounted to digitally everything is carefully thought through. Other games weve prepared for power cuts we have a backup storage that can keep the computers alive for three hours the day after those three hours would be going back to the old rustic days of farming just ass and the cows. And ill move on to what you can do. A single no go but have to empty the a five hundred cows by hand. This is been installed in the state of lower saxony its early april and asparagus farmer hina bottles is on his way to the field for the second time today. He could actually observe his field from the comfort of his own home via smartphone. Looking for my surmounted or he always hides the four hundred year old device somewhere different to stop the parts of the wrong direction down there. Where it is the customers are already putting pressure on him. Products. They are probably not possible right now on your list to go buy. Another customer. For the. Restaurants supermarkets and five. Hundred for highness asparagus. For any guns its actually a very in conspicuous thermometer then he shouldnt care sending out signals. If youre doesnt make the asparagus grow any faster but it does give us an indication of when it might. Come kuntar. Theres the damn phone again. My boy about. Every hour an absence in four temperature readings from the asparagus crop from the crown to the tip the app uses these readings to calculate the optimal time to stop harvesting and i thought of it at the Technology Makes it quite easy to check and get an overview of whats going on with the crop i am hoping ill get a indication of when we can actually start. And im also hoping to get an overview of the temperature if it gets too hot to me as a target starts to get this blossom coming out the top then well turn the sheeting over. There for you and to a friend recommended it of you on the nothing here here at least nothing on the surface seems. The asparagus isnt growing as it should. My glasses of stand up. Ill dig around in a few spots to see if i can see anything. On the. Board should evolve i can feel that the ground is nice and warm its coming here it is. Finished i missing something it still ten centimeters from the surface thirty minutes about four or five days. Theres been too much rain in recent weeks the sun just came back out today then off the air was right that theres nothing there yet but i thought its worth looking anyway. I was getting nervous that over the next ten weeks hina needs to make enough turnover to keep his farm going throughout the year i mean you want to talk i think johns day marks the end of the season for us its june twenty fourth. Anything we get after that anyway we can make money as a gift cards when people want produce and you cant meet the demand thats very unfortunate for a farmer could an apple now help boost his you. Know its nothing i can do. Well. In another field i guess needs to be planted for next year bought the machine cant get deep enough the grounds to harden stony. Asparagus crowns should go twenty centimeters deep into the ground these ones have to come out and i also want to lay a heating has to go under the plants. And its not easy the plants need to be in the right position and we have to be in the right position underneath them and hold them if they dont Work Together we have a problem in the next eight years trying to fix the plant stays in the soil for eight or maybe again ten years so its better to try and fix the problem rather than getting angry about it for ten years. You can get all worked up about it but that doesnt get you anywhere you just get on with it i just want to go over and make sure i can get the machine going. Damn its bad here too because the stones. Honda hired the tractor and driver for seventy five euros and now our plant has a tight shed jewel the next farm is already white harness and whats known as a grow out onto the field. Its supposed to lose. In this oil. Effect thats what i mean its completely different isnt it. My ruler. Yes perfect perfect. It working at. The high tech track dead drives across the field independently at zero point two kilometers an hour. For satellites keep it on the right track via cell phone reception with a real time Position Program accurate to two centimeters. So i thought. Its a really convenient work. Because no one can drive as precisely as this system accurate almost to the centimeter for hours on end. The g. P. S. Track across two hundred thousand euros. Then had to plant the asparagus late this year. In. That plant eight asparagus crowns pomade thats the only way the field makes a profit. In the heating hoses are also laid down in the soil from highness own bio gas plant it should help his future asparagus to grow no matter the without. Advice what we started growing asparagus my parents used to lay down tape every thirty centimeters there was a close paragraph plant had to go thats how we started our and so i think weve made a lot of progress to the way we are now trying to. Pest control has also come a long way. In southern lower saxony back a biological pesticide has been developed to fight off the corn burra this is where burnt my eyes experiment begins hell put the substance into the drone and scatter it on to the fields flying drones used to be a hobby now its his job. Because its the also here it is you can put nearly five hundred poles and its on the gates of morals for it is completely new to me ive never done this before. I just used to take photos or make films or now a drone has to drop something i have to know exactly when im allowed to do it and thats what i dont know of any youre hoping to learn something here will see im excited what problem are in good fun. This is where the n. T. Cornball remedy is produced its designed to eradicate the newly arrived pest without chemicals. Were not allowed to show how the product is made because its peyton to. The family run business uses an old Natural Remedy the newman wast enemy of the corn bora. Its less than half a millimeter long. He has a housefly for comparison. The neumann was lays its eggs in the eggs of the corn burra and destroys its offspring to create the pesticide the human wants a packed in paper balls and thrown across the cornfield the wasps crawl then out and go in search of the cornball resides. Burned is going to learn all about this during a two hour long Training Session at the company things suddenly get very technical each newman wasps are called trickle grama and laying eggs is called parasite is ing. And theres something burnt my i hadnt considered. The corn burra takes forty nine days to develop it meaning you have only that long for the treacle gramma to parasitize the egg short window as the man had. Fenster were furious just forty nine days of what im father nothing really and by this point the three who graeme i cant do anything with them are. Newly found respect for the whole thing i have to make sure i keep to that time frame it. Was like a light trap should tell bernd when the corn bore has arrived will he in his drone be able to manage two hundred hectares of corn in just four days. Back in mecklenburg for palm and. Your honner is suggesting bulls that her manager stefan might like to use to braid. You know you want to use sex semen again yet you have. Sex semen means only female calves hes quite big enough there isnt a very little corps years on the bigger side we dont have another one. Its daughter proven it has very good functional characteristics. And it makes little cows with nice daughters chicken why dont you. Do sperm selection is not allowed for humans but here it plays a big role stefan chooses sperm from the bulls bottom and sinclair hoping it will make him the perfect dairy cows it comes that really. I can discuss it with jeff and show him on the computer what we have in mind. I can try to prepare it with everything i have available. And this is up in the end though its nature in what actually comes out you can never predict one hundred percent kind of. Back in the cornfield burned check in the wasps. Sometimes you see them flying but i dont see any now. Has found a neighboring field with electricity to use for his light trap has attracted any pests he has his flying here. One corn bar on the screen right on the trap we were going off on. Because of the hot may the cornball is here ten days earlier than expected. Theres another one so the corn bar is here. Theres another. Kind though its definitely arrived we have the pictures here matches one to one. Female. And she lays the eggs so maya has a maximum of nine days left so its time to scatter the paperboy. A more welcome arrival than the corn burra asparagus wont be hit ten days later than hoped hina will get the most money from the first spears. He harvest the crops twice a day. Then they are really happy tells you when the harvest time began and it actually worked and im not thrilled. Hes just as thrilled with this piece of machinery called asparagus been in english when minimum wage was introduced and pay increase to replace some of the harvest assistance with these machines it lifts the covers and transports the spirit is one machine costs around five thousand euros but hina makes that much from two harvests. Production definitely gives us more people can work faster but for me its not about being able to pick faster but about making my pickers work easier. For us we could do more and we can save on people in fact we have saved on people. On their corner theres a robot you can go travels across the field in a natural twenty four hour cycle. Thats interesting. Weve still got problems with strong. Robots dont really like bumping into storms either. But they could be a solution at some point where wage costs really get too high. But the manufacturer of the harvest robot has discontinued its development too Much Technology would be required to replace a human being highness harvest assistants come from poland there are two dozen of them the one who picks the least isnt allowed back again its fierce competition hina is constantly trying to reduce his staff costs. They already run the floor random wage man i had to pay more for so we try to mechanize more like in the sorting plant in a field. Were basically trying to do more with fewer people in the lord and thats where the path is clearly heading of course it would be nice if you got decent money for decent products then this whole thing wouldnt be such a headache but thats something thats not going to change. Because the customer doesnt want to pay more than twelve years a kilo of asparagus. The sorting machine scans of thousands beers a minute and sorts them into four quality levels based on length and thickness that would take two assistants hours. The sorting machine cost time is seventy thousand euros. This is speratus peeling machine is a new addition to harness operations eighty percent of customers want their asparagus appealed nowadays harness old machine had reached its limits. To. This one cost ninety thousand euros it saves in five or six people. Breeding consultant johana is on her way home. And shes taking her work with. Today. Your honner now uses her darter to try and meet the demands of the herd manager. The search for the perfect partner continues. In her pairing plan she checks which bulls match best with which cals she can rule out in braiding she wants to compensate for deficiencies and boost the healthy traits of the animals. Is up with pure optimization i compare it with farming machines or smartphones theyre constantly being upgraded on smartphones even octon was right and no one wants to use Farm Equipment thats fifty years old what were doing with the cows is no different only their natural. Movement including taking a living being an optimizing it naturally live using them and gives them up their sleeves we are by the optimist. The flight route is set. Off and i hope it works. Why would it why would it work this club and. The laptop wont send the flight map to the drone. Covey of trying with a cable suv heard of them talking on the trail wonderful. So that was a. U. S. B. Ok. The fireworks very nice. But ill try different cable sort of this must be the fourth one ive used. A lot of normally works really quickly its just stopped. There was because i dont have any more u. S. B. Cables so what should i do now i cant do anything about it. If im to vent on other winds picking up to see if i want to see a long white see if the device is still cant interact with each other. Does that noise get really annoying. The coombe or one white for burned. But i have no idea if the drone has to cover an area the size of twenty two football fields today t. K. To the shed. Like i dont cant send it back now. Finally its connected but for the strings off because the computers dead here. The first of nine days already half gone will burned file his first assignment. The mecklenburg Lake District is where the company your hanna works for is based here at number one bloomberg in the town of all day its home to one hundred twenty of the most valuable bulls for breeding in more than germany including singulair and barnum these are literally cash cows or at least cash bulls. Theyre seamen is the most important product of the ants the Company Sells one million portions of sperm a year worldwide. And there he is. Born and is three and a half years old with heart a Million Euros and dangerous. Bulls are unpredictable and can kill three times a week semen collector tony hina takes bonum to the collection room. Will be configured by artificial vagina is one to forty two degrees sounds yes and im also filling it with forty two degrees water thats the ideal temperature to collect semen from an experienced all being. Born and has never seen a cow before. His libido comes from a pommel horse that looks like a cow from behind. It. Or not. The bone knew it was trying to be led by his nose his most sensitive area he couldnt be controlled with human strength alone so. The sperm collected gives bond. Straight to the Lab Next Door there are two point seven million liters of ejaculate the sperm is tested immediately for density and activity at least seventy percent of the sperm must be moving forward in a targeted manner. The green pass confirmed that bottom sperm is that ninety percent and there are four hundred twenty one portions of this one object generation on a good day he can make a thousand the sperm is thin down with chickens egg whites and separated into portions. Ordered by herd managers stefan is sent to another company where its sexed meaning its separated into male and female sperm. One portion of bottom sperm currently costs twenty euros your hand up will take seventy portions to stefan. Bulls can live up to twenty years this sexually mature after about a year. Bonum son browns men will provide the latest new improved generation of spurned for these animals its all about how well they can perform bonhams genetics are categorized into hereditary traits like how well his daughters would adapt to the milking machines humans are designing animals to fit machinery the genetic material can be ordered from a catalog. Back in lower saxony then a store is slowly waking up but the battles family farm is already in full gear the asparagus season is the most important time of the year for hina he sells it directly with no middleman. The market stalls on the streets and the supermarket shelves have to be stopped. Before opening time funded by the free refills on the family farm is now being run by the fourth generation bartell senior is in charge of supplying restaurants in hamburg. Hina has to deliver his product for the same price regardless of his yield. Here being less asparagus we harvest the harder its going to be to keep harvest costs under control and if we get bad weather the product should actually be more expensive with like if only we could actually do that i think it was. Unfortunately demand for asparagus stays the same come rain or shine. Its just before seven am hina has come to a supermarket in nearby heath failed to deliver the first asparagus of the season he wants to do it in person. Hina values personal contact with the stars but with that is bad news the price has been reduced by a year zero right there on the spot. If you have to i want to god lord but we are under pressure from the neighbor i want to leave it as we. Go through them it all go on maybe we can go back to it next week. And the great music messiah hina has delivered his first asparagus the first his harvested with help from an app recover mark where theres a producer on the run. Before your hanna can deliver the order of bull sperm she has to fuel tanks with liquid nitrogen to freeze it. At minus one hundred ninety six degrees celsius it should have an unlimited shelf life. So im looking for killer is number thirty three i cant find it thats forty six whats going on here oh theres thirty three. Seventy potions are going to head manager. Johana handles them as carefully as possible. There are no cabs in there just money were not a fertility clinic or anything isnt going to be the one thing it looks like. So them and thats what i want to think about how expensive it is i was once transporting three portions of a very rare bull sperm thats on this one portion cost one hundred twenty euros but i just think about that what if i drop them one hundred twenty euros times three down the drain so you cant think about it ive never thought about it before thats how i feel when i think about. Whether or not all these little chub will produce cards no one knows yet not even your hanna can deliver guaranteed success not yet anyway its one hundred kilometer drive to the cow shed. Yohannes spends most of her working day in the car. I doubt my view that someone once said to me here comes your honner again and her sperm will be all. That youll see all kinds of silly things but i can laugh about it myself. Back at stefans farm inseminate up roland is looking for couse to inseminate. The kernel senses also capture their movements so he can tell which ones are rotting but they become very active which shows theyre ready for insemination. Today is the optimal time for cow number three hundred nine eleven. Spare ready lets go. Be inseminated feels through the intestine to see if the uterus is in the correct position in view this. In a certain way it is a bit like playing god playing god in a small defined area. Line but i. Know that she is writing well we can inseminate her. Not every insemination works it often takes several attempts using up several portions of. The first in the correct position so i can release it. Goes up ok. So thats it. Designing cars to fit machines does that ever attract criticism if this is still the president i personally havent encountered many critical opinions. The only thing you hear from time to time is that its a shame for the cows because they dont get to have any fun with the bulls anymore. Thats how it is weve completely intervened as humans and we breed animals the way we need them is just how it is. Letting a bull inseminated cow causes stress and the more stress the less milk so even a high performing cow will never meet a bull the milk market dictates the lives of these animals gene selection is used to increase profit thats how our agricultural system works the debate about whether or not these animals still live in a species appropriate way has only really just begun. Four weeks later the good news officially arrives coul three hundred eleven is pregnant shell only start being milked industrially once her cart has its own car so you had a will have to wait three years before she sees of her work was a success she sees no limits to progress. But a lot of first is pragmatic as i am now that i think the vision will be to become even more efficient and i think we still have a long way to go before those of us. And burned my own after a quick trip to the power outlet in the Farmers Office hes having another go at putting the flight route on the drive on to source look at that its now its working. Well now we want to scatter the little insects. You know how little lucky balls. The balls containing the east newman was the natural enemy of the corn boa. Process well because now we really cant let it get damaged in any way that would be utterly catastrophic especially if there was a mistake you couldnt fix right away. To feed on it like former quantum. Lets just hope it doesnt happen. Or. Taking off. His method works the drone is flying the flight route automatically what would have taken a person hour as this drone can do in just a few minutes without chemicals and without damaging the plants. This is fighting nature with nature. It works really well. Burned has selected the ball to drop and has mounted it on the draw on the balls of falling just as calculated. The nieman wasps should crawl out of the balls in the next few days and stop the corn bora from spreading further. Was fantastic perfect so everything is easier and. Slides what is it. In the future its likely that more and more farms will employ specialists like burned. Hes managed to stick to his show jewel in the end in fact he only needed seven of the nine days. Wonderful. Even farm as a paving the way for digitalisation in the workplace. Theyre going to take it as long as the Technology Works the drone is the future were probably trying this a year too early will already know how its done next year so thats good sadly neither the corn bora nor the it knew man was one this time drought destroyed most of the seas harvest you can have all the drones robots and super sperm in the world Mother Nature always has the final say. Bought for how much longer. 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