Hey everyone. What's going on? Hope you are doing well and hope you had a fantastic weekend.

Kevin from Epic Gardening here and today I am actually going to be summarizing

something that I read in an article.

And the article is titled,

How This Tiny Country Feed The World.

And it's talking about the Netherlands.

So it says the Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.

Now this is fascinating to me because I just love thinking about what we're going to do to

feed ourselves as we go into the middle of this century.

What is going to happen? I'm certain that it's not going to stay the same.

So what's it going to look like? Well, it seems that looking at Netherlands might give us a little bit of an example.

So here we go. In a potato field near the Netherlands border with Belgium,

Dutch farmer Jacob Fanderborn is seated in the cabin of an immense harvester

before an instrument panel worthy of the Starship Enterprise.

From his perch 10 feet above ground, he's monitoring two drones, a driverless tractor roaming

the fields and a quadcopter in the air that provide detailed

readings on soil chemistry, water content, nutrients and growth, measuring the progress of

every plant down to the individual potato.

Bandiborne's production numbers testify

to the power of this precision farming,

as it's known.

The global average yield of potatoes per acre is about nine tons.

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