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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Netherlands: Food Growing Powerhouse?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

I recently stumbled across an article about the high-tech farming strategy the Netherlands is using to grow food. It blends sustainability with technology in what I think is going to be the future of food. Lots to learn! Learn More: This Tiny Country Feeds The World Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

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

0:11.0

something that I read in an article.

0:14.2

And the article is titled,

0:16.2

How This Tiny Country Feed The World.

0:20.9

And it's talking about the Netherlands.

0:23.0

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

0:30.0

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

0:37.3

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

0:41.8

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

0:44.4

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

0:50.3

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

0:56.0

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

1:02.0

before an instrument panel worthy of the Starship Enterprise.

1:06.3

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

1:11.2

the fields and a quadcopter in the air that provide detailed

1:14.6

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

1:20.3

every plant down to the individual potato.

1:24.0

Bandiborne's production numbers testify

1:26.0

to the power of this precision farming,

1:28.0

as it's known.

1:29.0

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

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