The digital revolution is already in full swing here in the fields of northern germany a thermometer transmits data from the asparagus crop. Is that still sending out signals from in here is it not also its the 1st smartphone assisters harvest the disparities fama hine of bottles has ever done. If youre over how to get an idea of when we can actually start harvesting thought. What makes the optimal count for modern dairy farming thats what breed a consultant Johana Chandel wants to find out. By seeking out super sperm that can optimize the others for modern milking machines but how does it work. For. Us to what were doing here has nothing to do with traditional nater 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 the end my hopes are. Good 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 c. Trade is thats carrying out a test that is also a specialist in digitalized crop cultivation you were part of the death of pharma burned myna hired him he wants to stop a pest no less alcuin 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. Marna worries hell lose up to 30 percent of his harvest he wants to eradicate the corn burra without chemicals. When theres no we need a way to fight it off became and im sure that at some point the titians will banned chemical methods of killing the corn like they have with many other things should become whatever it makes sense or not my sense of we should try something new or at least the english there will be most noise was burned my up plans to fly a drone over his fields easier said than done you want to add in fired off oil for. Over a month ive often had a problem as those type of mines have them because im flying through a gap of 10 meters and the system isnt so accurate that i can get right in the middle of 5 meters on each side of me to animate their cricket in must. This is pest control 4 point never before tempted here in northern germany the next step is programming the flat rate. Thats coming here i can mark out where the field is. So its a flat 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 a biological pesticide without chemicals everything can be programmed precisely like the flight generation direction speed and the altitude of the drone over that if hes nervous the experiment could still file. Your virus for me this is completely New Territory for mame an apparent buyer will come to fly twice at intervals of 10 or 14 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 cooperative 16000 euros he doesnt get any kind of subsidy. You know. This dairy farm in the state of making a book for palm and has 500 pounds. Breeding consultant. Has just started work today is inspection day. Almost straight away you know how they can identify the counts with portion 80 try it 35 dairy farms in the region rely on her expertise. Gunther bacteria to put it very simply optimizing the cow thats in a nutshell i dont 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 fundies are cool. About what. North german dairy farms competes on the world market so they need counts that work as efficiently as possible within the machines. Its 28 year old he had his job to find them she works for. The largest cattle Breeding Company in the state of meddling but for common. Is looking for deficiencies in the animals to make sure theyre not passed on she checks 50 cows an hour. I start with the order the order 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 american i have all the cows listening on my phone abbreviated by traits like size milk character body depps strength. Clinician pelvic spread angle of hind legs who fangirl and so on look theyre curious. To 74 i dont need who are you to 26 you can call. If the other is in shape correctly then milk the milk or then has to think about how to attach the equipment. And if the 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 manages computer milking takes place 3 times a day with the Council Working in shifts to keep up with rock bottom milk prices of 0. 30 a liter the machines have to work at maximum efficiency. A turnstile recognises every cow by its chip 500 cows follow each other through here and pass one single male calf. One cow produces 32 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 milked out of one rotation and if not the system automatically reduces the speed the computer transmits the new year old in real time. Head 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 herd Management System can help him to predict the perfect by Ancestry Health and milk composition even the cut chewing time in the corresponding feed rations amounted to digitally everything is carefully thought through. Weve prepared for power cuts we have a backup storage that can keep the computers alive for 3 hours after those 3 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 noko would have to empty the a 500. 00 counts by hand. This has been a store in the state of lower saxony its early i pull and asparagus farmer hina battles is on his way to the field for the 2nd time today. He could actually observe his field from the comfort of his own home via a smart phone. Looking for my surmounted or he always hides the 400 year old device somewhere different to stop the parts of the wrong direction of us down there. Where it is the customers are already putting pressure on him. Products. They are probably not possible right now to go buy. Another customer. For the. Restaurants supermarkets and farms an old waiting for highness asparagus. Farmiga its actually a very in conspicuous thermometer then losing hair sending out signals. Here doesnt make the asparagus grow any faster but it does give us an indication of when it might. But. Theres the damn phone again. Were going to talk about. It every hour an absence in 4 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 that 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 needs it erica starts to get this blossom coming out the top then well turn the sheeting over. There for you and to a friend recommended it to me nothing here yet at least nothing on the surface seems. The asparagus isnt growing as it should. My glasses of steamed 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 probably infinite i missing something its still 10 centimeters from the surface you know its about 4 or 5 days. Theres been too much rain in recent weeks the sun just came back out today and off the air was right that theres nothing there yet but i thought is worth looking anyway. I was getting nervous that over the next 10 weeks heinen needs to make enough turnover to keep his farm going throughout the year i mean you want to talk i think john state marks the end of the season for us its june 24th. Anything we get after that any way we can make money is a gift card its only people want to produce and you cant meet the demand thats very unfortunate never a farmer couldnt add now help boost his you. Know its nothing i can do. Well. In another field needs to be planted for next year bought the machine cant get deep enough the grounds to harden stony. Asparagus crowns should go 20 centimeters deep into the ground these ones have to come out and i also want to lie ahead to go under the plants. 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 8 years trying to fix the plant stays in the soil for 8 or maybe less than 10 years so its better to try and fix the problem rather than getting angry about it for 10 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 it or i can get the machine going. Damn its bad here too because the stones. Honda hired the tractor and drive if a 75 euros in our plant who has a tight ship will the next fall is already white harness and whats known as a grab onto the field. Its supposed to lose. In this soil. Effect and thats what i mean thats completely different isnt it. My ruler. Yes perfect perfect. Good working at. The high tech track dead drives across the field independently at 0. 2 kilometers an hour. For satellites keep it on the right track by a cell phone reception with a real time Position Program accurate to 2 centimeters. So i thought all the little its a really convenient working itself because no one can drive as precisely as this system accurate almost to the centimeter for hours on end on. The g. P. S. Track across 200000 euros. That had to plug the asparagus like this year. Into that plant 8 asparagus trounce pomade thats the only way the field makes a profit. In the heating hoses or also lie down in the soil from hein is own bio gas plant 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 30 centimeters there was a close paragraph speratus plant had to go thats how we started and so i think we made a lot of progress to the way we are now running a. Pest control has also come a long way. In southern lower saxony near im 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 so here it is you can put nearly 500 poles and its on the gears of war for rigorous completely new to me ive never done this before. I just used to take photos and 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 me yet hoping to learn something here will see im excited. Because. 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 paid into. The family run business it uses an old Natural Remedy the newman was 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 new man was a packed in paper balls and thrown across the cornfield the wasps crawled in out and go in search of the corn boras aides. Burned is going to learn all about this during a 2 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 board. Takes 49 days to develop it meaning you have only that long for the truth gramma to parasitize the egg short window as the man who. Type in star well few just 49 days. And what im father nothing really and by this point the tree who grandma cant do anything. If i were newly found respect for the whole thing i have to make sure i keep to that time frame. Trap should tell burnt when the corn bore has arrived will he in his drawing be able to manage 200 hectares of corn in just 4 days. Back in may claim book for common. Suggesting bulls that her manager might like to use to braid. You know you want to use sex semen again yet your. Sex semen means only female carbs hes quite big enough that risen to listen to words you use on the bigger side when i have another one. Its a daughter proven and has very good functional characteristics. That makes little cars with no starters she can ride on. Sperm selection is not allowed for humans but here it plays a big role stefan chooses sperm from the balls bottom and sinclair hoping it will make him the perfect dairy cows it comes that really. I can discuss it with jeff and ensure on the computer what we have in mind. I can try to prepare it with everything i have available. And theres a bit in the end though its nature and what actually comes out you can never predict a 100 percent. Back in the cornfield burned check in the wasps. Sometimes you see them flying but i dont see any now. Burned has found a neighboring field with electricity to use for his light trap has attracted any pests if he has his fine here. One corn bar on the screen right on the trap of i cannot follow. Because of the heart may the corn bore is here 10 days earlier than expected. Yes theres another one so the corn burra is here. Theres another. 4 years i. Find though its definitely arrived there we have the pictures here matches one to one. Female i plan and she lays the eggs so maya has a maximum of 9 days left so its time to scatter the paperboy cools off. A more welcome arrival than the corn burra asparagus. Wont be hit 10 days later than hoped hina will get the most money from the 1st speech. He harvest the crops twice a day. Then theyre really happy tells you when the harvest time begins 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 5000 euros but hina makes that much from 2 harvests. Production definitely gives us more people can pick 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 you know on their corner theres a robot you can get out of the travels across the field in a natural 24 hour cycle. Thats interesting. Weve still got problems with strong. Robots dont really like bumping into stones either. But they could be a solution at some point when 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 2 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. Theyre already been through a random wage man i had to pay more for so we try to mechanize more like in the sorting plant and i feel. Were basically trying to do more with fewer people 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 12 years a kilo of asparagus. The sorting machine scans of 1000 spears a minute and sorts them into 4 quality levels based on length and thickness that would take 2 assistants al is. The sorting machine cost time is 70000. 00 euros. This is speratus peeling machine is a new addition to harness operation 80 percent of customers want their asparagus peeled nowadays highness old machine had reached its limits. This one cost 90000 euros it saves in 5 or 6 people. Breeding consultant johana is on her way home. And has taken her. With her today. You know how now uses her darted 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 breeding she wants to compensate for deficiencies and boosts the healthy traits of the animals. Is up in the open and its pure optimization i compare it with farming machines or smartphones theyre constantly being upgraded on smartphones and often with no one wants to use Farm Equipment thats 50 years old what were doing with the cows is no different only their natural. Movement think were taking a living being and optimizing it naturally. And gives up their sleeve as we are by the optimist. The flight route is set. Off and i have a works. Why would it why would it work on. The laptop wont send the flight map to the drone oh im sorry its all trying with the cable through further and im told on the failed wonderful. So there was a. U. S. B. Ok. So the 3 works very nice. But try different cable sort of this must be the 4th one ive used. A lot of normally works really quickly its just stopped. They call that i dont have any more u. S. B. Cables so what should i do now i cant do anything about it. If intervent or another winds picking up to see the. Signal. The devices still cant interact with each other. This noise gets really annoying. The corn bore out want white for burned. But i have no idea the drone has to cover an area the size of 22 football fields today to keep to the shed. Like i can send it back now. Finally its connected but. The strains are because the computers dad. The 1st of 9 days already half gone well burned file his 1st assignment. To make lumbered Lake District is where company your hana works for is based here at number one bull