Why This Robot Kills Weeds With Lasers

[@CleoAbram]

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.

[@MarylandFarmer.]

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.

[@theeggscavaters4044]

It's a complex topic but if people watch the whole video I think you do a really nice job breaking down everything

[@kaimojepaslt]

cleo is hot

[@BikeIsLife4EverGG]

e por isso que temos pandemias, para diminuir a população. já foi pensado e criado essa certa coisa para isso, diabólico né?

[@squibbledobble]

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!

[@RyanMercer]

Remember folks, John Deere had to be taken to court for farmers to have the right to repair and are still fighting it.

[@Numenor7]

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.

[@osmia]

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[@RvB_Fan_since_8]

Yeah that’s why at 2:30 she mentioned it. Did you actually watch the video???

[@Numenor7]

@@RvB_Fan_since_8 I'm sure he did hence the comment reinforcing the point and adding additional information about how they're still fighting it.

[@RyanMercer]

@@RvB_Fan_since_8 calm down white knight

[@Ethan_Biji]

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!

[@dllemm]

No mention of the hundreds of John Deere layoffs last week.

[@Matt-bp5vy]

​@@dllemmbecause it's completely relevant to the topic of the video?

[@MrNicoJac]

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)

[@cornnatron3030]

jup real journalism cause she mentioned it but doesnt go in to it at all like why the machine would need a update/reset when you replace a simple part especially when that update/reset has to been done through a certified technician or dealer which isnt really profitable or easy or you got the time for when your in the middle of your harvest . especially when that part has got nothing to do with the working of the machine why does it need to?

[@RyderSpearmann]

No, this is not true journalism. She’s asserting a multi-step plan to match her activism. She’s a major problem. Cute fools with plans create much havoc for civilization. Kudos for covering the “right to repair” though… so she didn’t do a horrible job… but she has no business telling food professionals and the rest of the world her master plan. She ain’t all that. True journalists don’t serve up their activism.

[@bbqR0ADK1LL]

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.

[@szaszm_]

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.

[@AlliyahPerry]

A bit of a villan?

[@CHIEF_420]

🌍 = 🙉🙈🙊...

[@Tyrael112]

@@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.

[@dash8465]

Without the money there’s little incentive to innovate. Never mind JD.. whats up with China owning so much US farm land?

[@edschultheis9537]

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.

[@claytonjames4779]

I am from Washington too. We are more than onions and apples!

[@hg2.]

There's something I hate about her. What is it? Is it the assuming way she sounds? The assuming way she assumes the Sierra-Club-ish assertions she makes? The Bill Maher-ish way she sort of talks out of both sides of her mouth???

[@jerrik-415]

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.

[@Andreas.r2]

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.

[@dandantheideasman]

Nicely put. 🙏

[@jerrytheant]

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.

[@BromaniJones]

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

[@braxhartman]

@@BromaniJones she literally says that at 13:55, did you even watch the video?

[@spacekeesiee]

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!

[@alexrogers777]

As an American, Americans will never work with the efficiency of the Dutch unfortunately

[@endosquid]

@@alexrogers777 Unless pushed.

[@Nick-hi9gx]

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.

[@mardiantusbudiman8127]

If american upper class stop eating they way the eat we will be fine

[@RealLimerickman]

It is extremely sad that your government, along with other western governments is doing everything possible to destroy that efficency and productivity

[@TimCortesi]

Great video as always. Glad you covered the right to repair stuff as well. This channel is killing it.

[@andyspoo2]

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.

[@samanjj]

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

[@samryanenv]

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

[@benwilms3942]

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]

@@benwilms3942 it does last. Flash frozen or canned in a healthy way

[@benwilms3942]

@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.

[@Habu71]

Meanwhile, one single groundhog keeps wiping out my homemade garden of 1 squash plant and 1 cucumber plant. LOL

[@RovingPunster]

What, no cannabis ? Seriously ? 😉

[@MiddleAgedBob]

Maybe there is a laser for that, too.

[@onnaquest]

Waiting to hear whether or not they can repair their own equipment

[@RafyPina]

Lol they won't be able to. For their "security" of course. Nothing to do with corporate greed.

[@va1korion]

2:33, yup.

[@onnaquest]

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

[@onnaquest]

@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?

[@1DwtEaUn]

@@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."

[@michaeljamieson3582]

I love the positivity on this channel, it’s so refreshing.

[@torisandifer518]

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.

[@Also_sprach_Zarathustra.]

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.

[@torisandifer518]

@@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.

[@Lord_LindaThePhilosopher]

@@torisandifer518 goverment incentives like they have been doing for years

[@spulwasser]

​@@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...

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

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...

[@nazart7830]

As a farmer from a third world country, we are not even remotely close to using or affording any of this tech

[@kylemcewen8474]

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!

[@FalconWindblader]

Definitely not in a few years & maybe not even in over a decade, but like most tech when demand scaled to massive proportions & becoming less & less of a novelty, they WILL get cheap enough to be found used everywhere in the world but the most technologically backwards of countries, somewhere between 20 to 50 years from now.

[@Ozjockey111]

yes but the west is bankrupting themselves at an astonishing rate now because of their extremely unhealthy diets (healthcare costs & early mortality) and completely 'captured' regulators that allow only their sponsors and benefactors to bring massively expensive innovations to market. I come from Australia but do business in Asia and we tried to get a new cheap affordable innovation into Oz and we eventually had to give up. I'm ashamed what Oz and other developed countries have become as they still rely on poisoning the soils and the planet to achieve all this. The day of reckoning is coming I think, i just hope that (this time) they don't force us all into another world war to meet their greedy ends...Things will change rapidly after that I hope. fingers crossed.

[@nazart7830]

@@kylemcewen8474 lol youre assuming to much, cellphones are cheap. A good tractor costs just as much as new Mercedes

[@LeftTurn27]

11:51 The caption should have been holding on for Deere life.

[@developingtank]

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.

[@savvysatvik]

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.

[@ayoCC]

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

[@Arthera0]

those need to go obviously. only space for mega corporations

[@hpgramani]

Yes like Jugadu kamlesh's innovative product shown in shark tank

[@ThomasAlex]

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

[@savvysatvik]

@@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.

[@oscaralexflores]

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.

[@Shadow-ql2hs]

I always imagined that the coolest thing to come out of automation doesnt happen in Factories, but in the way agriculture changes

[@king_crispyy]

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!

[@ivansmith3718]

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.

[@d.d.jacksonpoetryproject]

The quintessential Cleo video - you made what would definitely seem like an incredibly boring subject extremely fascinating (I mean laser weed zappers? Come on!) Very nicely edited also. My only question would be to want more information about “step four”. Thanks for the video. ❤

[@spulwasser]

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.

[@Raddlesnakes000]

I'm really glad you talked about John Deere right from the start, right to repair is so important for primary producers

[@jonathanmelhuish4530]

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.

[@ShamWerks]

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.

[@jonathanmelhuish4530]

​@@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.

[@thinkcuriolearning]

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!

[@Suburp212]

Excellent video. Consider making a huge if true episode about point 5 " reducing food waste". Thanks.

[@jackriley1989]

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 👌🏼

[@andymitchell2146]

This is great stuff, but as somebody who's worked in veg manufacturing for nearly 20 years, the supermarkets (at least in the UK) have a big part to play in ensuring future food security. So much emphasis is put on uniform crops as a proxy for "premium brand" veg. This leads to a tighter band on usable crops, with manufacturers then having to hunt for an outlet for the rest of the crop, with much going back to cattle feed, leading to lower return costs for the farmers. Yes we've had advances in optical quality sorting and have so many pieces of equipment to dice, slice, grate, julienne etc product (each process with their own yield loss), but fundamentally the drive to ensure food security needs to come from the large companies that pass the product on to the end consumer, as it's them that are by far the biggest influencers in the field (no pun intended).

[@bradlyscotunes9156]

Cool you got to drive these huge machines, Cleo! I need a lazer weeder!

[@gregsettle9725]

The right to repair is a RIGHT, not a privilege! Open Source everything!

[@im.empimp]

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.)

[@PappaTom-ub3ht]

It is only a right if the government says it is. They do not :(

[@priyankapriyanka-jz8dz]

there are so few people making contents on agriculture in youtube , tech knowledge if flowing around the youtube which is of more than enough , and you making this content is awwwsome and really appreciate it!!! love from INDIA🥰

[@edyap]

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?

[@mattf9096]

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.

[@kylemcewen8474]

@@mattf9096 Correct. Well put.

[@miladesfandiary2794]

I'm so glad that KZbin suggested your channel. I'm definitely subscribing.

[@kushalvora7682]

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.

[@thedamnedatheist]

We can already do that, and a flour replacement.

[@ross-carlson]

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.

[@purplelord8531]

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.

[@horseheadproductions7038]

Why do you decide that? Who put you in charge?

[@mischavanasperen3063]

I think it would be better if we just unlearn grown ups eating baby food...

[@Shakarhaba]

It's amazing how interesting your videos are even on subjects that were not initially of interest to me. The script, the delivery, the infographics. All perfect, congratulations.

[@radicalrick9587]

*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, $$$$.*

[@edenassos]

Wow, company prioritizing profit in order to keep the company afloat, what a novel concept. Get a job.

[@-paulmp]

I still find it crazy that this level of production is made by a KZbinr... not a full on production company for TV. It is awesome.

[@nickye2864]

Me after 26 beers: 0:22

[@sergio-179]

😂😂

[@chetranqui]

I really appreciate your positivity. Every one of your videos has put a smile on my face and made me ponder in awe of what we as a species have accomplished to this point. Thank you for that. There aren't many sources out there that such a thing can be said of.

[@gokkiyoutube]

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)

[@SailThePaleBlueDot]

I know there are many huge, seemingly insurmountable problems in the world, but Cleo is such a warm, optimistic, delightful person that I always feel good after watching one of her videos. Thank you Cleo for making the world a better place!

[@policeman1104]

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 :)

[@policeman1104]

Intercropping is also fine :)

[@chaschuky999]

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.

[@kellymoses8566]

Large scale farms are inherently more efficient than small farms. I worked on a smaller dairy farm and it was absurdly inefficient.

[@policeman1104]

@@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

[@policeman1104]

@@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 :)

[@alaincote6684]

Great vid, hi from Canada. We grow mostly weeds. And lavender,oats,barley,buckwheat,red and black currants, sage, coriander,basil,potatoes,pumpkin, squash x5, celery,strawberries,blackberries, apples, peas, grapes, catnip,horseradish, spinach, celery, kale, and hops. I know, I am crazy.

[@nurgarciaterrassa8593]

Farming is so underrated and we should take care of this world! Farmers should be much more protected!

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

Always appreciate your content Cleo! Thank you and your team for these videos!

[@christopherbedford9897]

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 😬

[@brendykes1202]

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.

[@christopherbedford9897]

@@brendykes1202 Funny, I didn't realise anyone could be quite so obtuse about something so important.

[@brendykes1202]

@@christopherbedford9897 look around. Lots of farms on cleared forest land for generations and they haven’t turned into deserts. Simple observation.

[@andresvodopivec5950]

I thought I had accomplished my mission to learn all science available in KZbin, and then you come and destroyed my mission ❤. Awesome content. Thanks for the learning and enthusiasm

[@Ice_Bag_Peach]

RYAN MENTIONED!!!! RHAAAAAA 7:30

[@LilyWasHereMB]

Tis a noble endeavor to feed the World whilst not ravaging it. Nobler still to do so without fleecing the farmer.

[@jasonchristopheruy80]

being 'high tech' does not make a product irreparable by the user

[@Drieleven]

Thanks Cleo for covering this important topic. I hope in future you will tackle regenerative agriculture more and how it does or does not fit into what is sustainable for population growth, environmental destruction AND climate change (which wasn't shockingly mentioned much in this video)

[@khanfauji7]

When corporations can remotely turn off farming. We have a problem.

[@kamisawekchim]

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!

[@eduardoforneck3335]

"The world's population is exploding", every demographer watching: 🤦🤦🤦🤦

[@space_1073]

I don’t know what metrics you’re looking at but it 100% is still growing fast.

[@Ayushr0129]

Wow, my farm simulator 2017 game and bruder John Deere toy have become a reality!

[@ItsSimplyAurora]

As someone who comes from a family of farmers- this would revolutionise my relatives work! Thank you for sharing

[@ross-carlson]

Wow, an intelligent comment and shocking it came from someone who actually knows about farming. The comments here are insane.

[@Lizlodude]

Was going to comment about JD's numerous issues with right to repair, but of course it's one of the first things you mention. Love to see it. Hopefully they continue to reduce their hostility towards repair. They have some really cool tech, but we have enough monopolies already, we need less, not more of those. I also really like Destin (SmarterEveryDay)'s series on farming tech. It really shows that contrary to the image of farmers as 'simple folk', farmers are stinkin geniuses, and the tech and tools they work with are insane. Allowing them to contribute to the advancement of this technology will be much more beneficial than locking them out, if not for JD's wallet.

[@judelarkin2883]

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.

[@gopackgo933]

And about $5 million in land to make enough to pay back the loans on the equipment

[@judelarkin2883]

@@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.

[@truemenimprovedaily]

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.

[@dannywoods17]

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.

[@dannyl2598]

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.

[@dannywoods17]

@@dannyl2598 The store I worked at still donates all there left over produce and scraps to pigs and the local food bank.

[@andymitchell2146]

@@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.

[@Sujaca00]

I wanted to sincerely thank you for the excellent work you do and for the consistently engaging and educational content you provide. As a European viewer, I have a constructive suggestion: when mentioning measurements, it would be incredibly helpful if you could display on screen, in addition to the imperial system, the equivalent in the international metric system. This would greatly assist us in better understanding the dimensions and quantities mentioned. I greatly appreciate your dedication! Keep up the fantastic work, your channel is amazing!

[@vulcan4d]

We are very wasteful when it comes to our food, even more in restaurants.

[@Cleeon]

Yep, we can see

[@john-wiggains]

Best of luck on the AB thumbnail testing on this video! I loved it. it's a really cool idea. Glad you talked about right to repair!

[@domnicdrakon]

cool farmers be like "let's glitch production of food guys"

[@Quantum-Chaos]

I wish you'd of shown more of the lab work for this sort of development process.

[@henriquesetti3651]

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.

[@themole70]

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.

[@basedbulgarian511]

So you want the farmers to work for free?

[@everypitchcounts4875]

I think the US should stop giving food away, especially to countries that don't like the west.

[@abukh86]

@@everypitchcounts4875 Why do they not like us?

[@alexrogers777]

@@basedbulgarian511 That's a strawman and you know it, that's not at all what op said

[@TobyRobb]

A complicated issue, with steps in the right direction for mass food. Increasing crop diversity through polyculture, (not intercropping) is also a great idea. Never forget about slow food people! Grow your own and support local small endeavours! Thanks Cleo and your team.

[@mrgarywong]

I really dont know much about farming, but this was very informative. Nvidia is taking over the world.

[@ben_west]

So glad you didn't gloss over the importance of right to repair. Same with food waste and some of the implications of industrial agriculture. Your videos continue to be beautifully composed and thought provoking.

[@figo2989]

Well HAY! If they get lost do you need to TRACTOR them down??

[@ProfessorRainman]

:D

[@OneMo1]

a few years ago there was a huge movement showing how vertical farming was far more efficient than regular farms. while it was all convincing, we still have not seen it take over the industry. this might be a great topic for you to cover next.

[@wardrakephoenix6102]

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).

[@hardheadjarhead]

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.

[@Haruka_Yukito]

1:59 She’s still posting video so i guess she’s still alive after shooting this video LOL 😅

[@samanjj]

Amazing piece of journalism as usual Cleo - well done and thank you.

[@tomryks]

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

[@ross-carlson]

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!

[@Paeddl42]

​@@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

[@mandrakejake]

@@Paeddl42 I know them as 'wheelings' (UK, might be slang)

[@edschultheis9537]

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.

[@oyuyuy]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the densest material the world has ever seen:@@ross-carlson

[@madeleinehiggins7865]

Oh my 4 year old is obsessed with robots and farming and bam, this video comes out. Perfect time Cleo! He loved it.

[@KhanSaahab]

Good job by John Deere's PR team

[@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920]

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.

[@ristube3319]

Indoor farming is the future. Tiny land, water, and no bugs, so no pesticides. There’s one amazing place in NJ near Giants Stadium.

[@fediletsoalo5289]

I wish i could hear cleo talk everyday, like a teacher🤯🤗

[@TechSportSerbiaTV]

Let's goooooo

[@ArleneElanor]

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

[@Stef.Cata051]

And the tractor is from John Dree, one of the garbage companies that believes farmers shouldn't be able to fix their equipment

[@MyThisisridiculous]

Loved learning about all this cool tech! Never knew farming was so high tech

[@Remie1529]

You should have gone to The Netherlands Wageningen University here you will find the top stuff of farming

[@gator1984atcomcast]

Great video. My PhD was in Ag, and I retired in that Field😊. Unfortunately most farming is moving out of the USA to developing countries that can’t afford equipment shown here.

[@Ariya037]

More power to the big corporates. Small farmer is the past . Future is scary

[@kylemcewen8474]

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.

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[@ChrisBigBad]

Thanks for addressing the controversy over DRM on the hardware.

[@Donnerwamp]

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.

[@VioletCongreve]

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

[@chamikk90]

great tractors... IF YOU COULD REPAIR THEM WHEN THEY BREAK DOWN!

[@om1noa]

Will these machines also bring food to Burkina Faso? Or is this about occidental countries only? We are already starving.

[@dou40006]

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.

[@GoldenMechaTiger]

There are some things in there that increase production like the precision seeding. Also depending on the climate you might be able to plant an extra time if you can increase the speed at which you harvest etc

[@mygirldarby]

Most of the land is used not to feed people, but to feed the animals that people eat. Meat eating is extremely inefficient.

[@nyleverg]

This is one of the most uplifting youtube channel there is right now :)

[@MinneapolisRaven]

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.