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 theyre sending out signals for many here is it not also its the 1st smartphone assisted harvest that asparagus farmer hina bottles has ever done. That 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 others for modern milking machines but how does it work. What were doing here has nothing to do with traditional new. Which many people might like to imagine forget of course their. Corn has a new enemy its small but not to be underestimated it can destroy entire crops could a drone help to keep it but i turned my 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 see bridges thats carrying out a test that is also a specialist in digitalized crop cultivation you are part of the. Pharma burned mine are hired him he wants to stop a pest no less a corn burra from destroying his crops the corn burra has migrated to northern germany because of Climate Change its love it eats into the storks which makes them bend and they can no longer be harvested. Myna worries hell lose up to 30 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 im sure that at some point all occasions will ban chemical methods of killing the corn bore like they have with many other things because whatever it makes sense or not my sense of we should try something new. Mr english there will be one of those noise was burned my up plans to fly a drone over his fields easiest. The problem is those turbines 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 with 5 meters on each side of me. This is pest control 4. 0 never before tempted here in northern germany the next step is programming the flight route. Thats coming near 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 a biological pesticide without chemicals everything can be programmed precisely like the flight generation direction speed and the altitude of the drone often if hes nervous the experiment could still file. Absolutely this is completely New Territory for mame a man about meyer 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 when 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 common has 500 pounds. Breeding consultant. Has just started work today is inspection day. Almost straight away your honey can identify the counts with portion it tried 35 dairy farms in the region rely on her expertise. Gunther bricklayer to put it very simply optimizing the cow thats it in a nutshell im going to 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. By the hot. North german dairy farms compete on the world market so they need counts that with as efficiently as possible within the machines. Its 28 year old johann his job to find them she works parinda early on its the largest cattle Breeding Company in the state of mad limbo for common johana 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. Basically whether shes on the big side or if shes a more slender animal. With the others or 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 they fit the machines. I welcome any. I have all the cows listed on my phone abbreviated by traits like size milk character body depps strength. Inclination pelvic spread angle of hind legs who fangirl and so on look theyre curious because im going to 74 i dont need who are you to 26 you can. If the owner is in shape correctly then milk the milk or then has to think about how to attach the equipment. 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 maine slaughtered every cow has a chip that seems 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 chip in 500 cals follow each other through here pass one single milk 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 out of one rotation and if not the system automatically reduces the speed the computer transmits the old in real time. Head manager. Spends more time here than in the barn. 3 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. Stefans heard 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. Other games 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 milk or would have to empty the a 500. 00 counts by hand. This has been installed in the state of law in saxony its early april and asparagus farmer hina bottles 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 smartphone. Looking for my thermometer he always hides the 400 year old device somewhere different to stop the parts of the wrong direction of whats 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 farm some food waiting for highness asparagus. For our new guns its actually a very in conspicuous thermometer then using our 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 4 temperature readings from the asparagus crop from the crown to the tip 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 it and occasion when we can actually start. And im also hoping to get an overview of the temperature if it gets too hot to me that 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 but nothing here yet 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 trying to see if i can see anything. On the end of. The board should evolve i can feel that the ground is nice and warm its coming here it is. 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 then off the air was right that theres nothing there yet but im going to worth looking anyway. I was getting nervous that over the next 10 weeks hina needs to make enough turnover to keep his farm going throughout the year the i mean you want to talk i think johns day marks the end of the season for us its june 24th. Anything we get after that anyway we can make money as a gift or gets when people want produce and you cant meet the demand thats very unfortunate for a farmer. Couldnt add 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 20 centimeters deep into the ground these ones have to come out and i also want to light a heating hose 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 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 again 10 years so its better to try and fix the problem rather than getting angry about it for 10 years. Some of the you can get all worked up about it but that doesnt get you anywhere you just get on with i just want to go over and make sure i can get the machine going. Like a minivan its bad here too because the stones. Hano hired the tractor and drive if a 75. 00 euros in our plant has a tight shed you will the next fall is already white harness and whats known as a grab onto the field. Its supposed to loose. In this oil. Effect and thats what i mean thats completely different isnt it when should i was my ruler. Yes perfect perfect a straight. 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. 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 200000 euros. Then had to plant the asparagus light this year. That plant 8 asparagus crowns pomade thats the only way the field makes a profit. And the heating hoses are also laid down in the soil from highness own bio gas plant should help his future asparagus to grow no matter the without. It was 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 it by hand so i think we made a lot of progress to the way we are now trying to. Pest control has also come along why. 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 500 poles and its on the gears of war 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 obviously youre hoping to learn something here will see im excited. And therefore. This is where the n. T. Cornball remedy is produced its designed to eradicate the newly arrived pist without chemicals were not allowed to show how the product is made because its paid into. 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. Between human wasp lays its eggs in the eggs of the corn burra and destroys its offspring to create the pesticide the human was a pet in paper balls and thrown across the cornfield the wost scrawled an ounce and go in search of the corn boras a. 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 hadnt considered. The corn were takes 49 days to develop it meaning you have only that long for the treacle grama to parasitize the egg short window as among. The side fenster where few just 49 days. Thats what im father nothing really and by this point the tree who grandma cant do anything. For over newly found respect for the whole thing i have to make sure i keep to that time frame. A light 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 for common. Is suggesting 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 calves hes quite big enough there isnt a there are unless of course he is on the bigger side when i have another one. Its daughter proven it has very good functional characteristics. And it makes little cows with nice orders she can work on. Sperm selection is not allowed for humans but here it plays a big role stefan chooses sperm from the bulls barnum 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 this is about in the end though its nature and what actually comes out you can never predict 100 percent. Back in the cornfield burned checking 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 and yes his flying here. Was one corn bar on the screen right on the trap were going to follow. Because of the hot 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 we have the pictures here matches one to one. Female. And she lays the eggs so maya has a maximum of 9 days left so its time to scatter the paperboy. 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 they are to be 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 a spoke its 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 so 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 can do more and we can save on people in fact we have saved on people. On their corner theres a robot you can get in our 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 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 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 minute through a random wage man i had to pay more so we tried to mechanize more like in the sorting plant in a field. Were basically trying to do more with fewer people to be 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 thousands spears a minute and sorts them into 4 quality levels based on length and thickness that would take 2 assistants hour as. The sorting machine cost time is 70000. 00 euros. This is speratus peeling machine is a new addition to harness operation for 80 percent of customers want their asparagus appealed now days upon his old machine had reached its limits. But this one cost 90000 euros it saves him 5 or 6 people. Breeding consultant johana is on her way home. And shes taken her work with. Today. You have the now uses her daughter 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 inbreeding she wants to compensate for deficiencies and boost the healthy trades 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 even oxygen which right 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 an optimizing it naturally live using. The sleeves we are by to optimise. The flight route is set. Off i have a works. Why would it be why would it work. The laptop wont send the flight map to the drone well im trying with a cable through ferdinand jump on the failed wonderful. So that was a. U. S. B. My ok. So the 3 marks a nice. Order but ill try different cable sort of this must be the 4th one ive used. A lot of normally works really quickly its just stopped. With the 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. What signal. The device is still cant interact with each other. This noise gets really annoying. The cornball wrote 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 dont cant send it back now. Finally its connected but for the strings off because the computers dad. The 1st of mine days already half gone will burn file his 1st assignment. Cement numbered like district is where the company your henna works for is based here at number one bull and in the town of all day its home to 120 of the most valuable bulls for breeding in northern germany including singulair and barnum these are literally cash cows or at least cash balls. Theyre seamen is the most important product of the ants t