The job you made for mines. 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 assisted harvest the disparities fama hine of bottles has ever done. If youre already going 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 odds for a modern milking machines but how does. Work. Rusti what were doing here has nothing to do with traditional nature which many people might like to imagine the 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 but i turned my hopes our hero. Could Digital Technology to 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 you see brit is thats carrying out a test that is also a specialist in digitalized crop cultivation you were part of the pharma burned my now hired him he wants to stop a pest no result corn board 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. Myna worries hell lose up to 30 percent of his harvest he wants to eradicate the corn borel without chemicals. There isnt we need a way to fight it off and so we can im sure that at some point titians will ban chemical methods of killing the corn bore like they have with many other things should become whether it makes sense or not my sense of the. We should try something new. Burned my up plans to fly a drone over his fields easier said than done. The problem is those turbines over there because im flying through a gap of 10 meters and the system isnt so accurate that i can get right in the middle 5 meters on each side of the mythic who get in must. This is pest control 4 point never before attempted here in northern germany the next step is programming the flight rate. Its coming here i can mark out where the field is. So its a flight map for the drawing i want. 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 you ration direction speed and the altitude of the drone often if hes nervous the experiment could still file. Your bias for me absolutely 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 when theres a it requires a lot of trust and this whole thing isnt cheap it. The pharma is paying the cooperatives 16000 euros he doesnt get any kind of subsidy. You know through. This dairy farm in the state of making a book for palm and has 500 pounds. Breeding consultant Johana Chandel has just started work today is inspection day. Almost straight away your honey can identify the counts with portion a to try it 35 dairy farms in the region rely on her expertise. Gunther bacteria 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 fundies are cool. About what. North german dairy farms compete on the world market so they need counts that work as efficiently as possible within the machines. Its 28 year old you hannahs job to find them she works its the largest cattle Breeding Company in the state of mad limbo 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. I have all the cows listening on my phone abbreviated by traits like size milk character body dips strength. Spread angle of hind legs who frankel and so on look theyre curious. To 74 i dont need who are you to 26 you can come. If the other isnt cheap correctly then milk 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 or. In this case means 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 and she keep up with rock bottom prices of 0. 30 a liter the machines have to work at maximum efficiency. A turnstile recognises every cow chip in 500. 00 cows follow each other through pass one single milk or. One cow or 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 new year old in real time. Head manager. Spends more time here than in the bond. 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 move. 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. 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 on. The lot of you can use. A single no go but have to empty the a 500 counts by hand ready. This has been installed in the state of lower saxony its only idle and disparages 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 a smart phone. Looking for my thermometer 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 right the customers are already putting pressure on him. Part of. The i pod not possible right now to go buy. Another customer. Service. Restaurants supermarkets and farms and waiting for highness asparagus. I mean its actually a very in conspicuous thermometer then losing hair sending out signals. If youre doesnt make the asparagus grow any faster than before 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 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 to get indication of when we can actually start. And im also hoping to get an overview of the temperature if it gets too hot to an easy target starts to get this blossom coming out the top then will turn the sheeting over. There for your. Friend recommended it to me nothing here here 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 and see if i can see anything. I mean i can with. The board should evolve i can feel that the ground is nice and warm its coming here it is. In fact i missing something and 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 there is nothing there yet but im going to worth looking anyway. I was getting nervous. Over the next 10 weeks heinen 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 any way we can make money is a gift for good for any people want to produce and you cant meet the demand thats very unfortunate never a farmer couldnt now help boost his you. Know its nothing i can do. Well. In another field needs to be planted for next year i 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 lay a heating hose to go under the plants. And its not easy the plants need to be in the right position and all else needs to be in the right position underneath them. If they dont Work Together we have a problem in the next 8 years trying to fix it. The plan stays in the soil for 8 or maybe a good 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 sure i can get the machine going. Argument damn its bad here too because the stones. Hano hired the tractor and driver for 75. 00. Who has a tight ship will the next fall is already white hot in a sense whats known as a grab the field. Its supposed to loosen the soil. Effect and thats what i mean its completely different isnt it. My ruler. Yes it. It works when you have. The high tech track dead drives across the field independently at 0. 2 kilometers an hour. Full satellites keep it on the right track via cell phone reception with a real time position programmed accurate to 2 centimeters. So i thought really its a really convenient working itself because no one can drive as precisely as they system accurate almost to the centimeter for hours on end. The g. P. S. Track across 200000 euros. Then had to plant the asparagus late this year and could. Plant 8 asparagus trounce pomade thats the only way the field makes a profit. And the heating hoses are also laid down in the soil from highness own diode as a 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 closed paragraph speratus plant had to go thats how we started and so i think weve made a lot of progress to the way we are now running. Pest control has also come along why. 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 but 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 it gets 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 youre hoping to learn something here will see im excited. Because for. This is where the n. T. Cornball remedy is produced its designed to eradicate the newly arrived pissed without chemicals were not allowed to show how the product is made because its paid and. The family run business uses an old Natural Remedy the neumann wast enemy of the corn bora. Its less than half a millimeter long. He has a housefly for comparison. Newman was lays its eggs in the eggs of the corn burra and destroys its offspring to create the pesticide the new man was a patent paper balls and thrown across the cornfield the wasps crawl then out 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 gramma 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 truth to parasitize the egg short window. Type and start where few just 49 days. In what im father nothing really and by this point the tree who grandma cant do anything. If you dont have a newly found respect for the whole thing i have to make sure i keep to that time frame. On public light trap should tell bird when the corn boar has arrived will he in his drawing be able to manage 200 hectares of corn in just 4 days ready. Back in mecklenburg for palm and. Suggesting that her manager might like to use to braid. If you want to use sex semen again yet your. Sex semen means only female carbs hes quite big enough there isnt a is there in this of course years on the bigger side i have another one. Daughter proven and has very good functional characteristics. That makes little cars with no starters right 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 cow. 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 in what actually comes out you can never predict 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 flying here. One corn bar on the screen right on the trap we were going off. Because of the hot may the corn boar is here 10 days earlier than expected. Yes theres another one so the corn burra is here. Theres another. Kind though its definitely arrived them 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 cools off. A more welcome arrival than the corn burra asparagus wont be a 10 days later than hoped hina will get the most money from the 1st spears. 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 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. Discrimination definitely gives us more people can work 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. Theres a robot you can go now travels across the field in a natural 24 hour cycle. Thats interesting as we still got problems with strong. Robots dont really like bumping into storms 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 in the floor i mean im a wage man i have to pay more so we try to mechanize more like in the sorting plant and in the field. 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. This washing machine scans of thousands beers a minute and salts them into 4 quality levels based on length and thickness that would take 2 assistants hours. 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 appealed now to its harness all peeling machine had reached its limits. This one cost 98000 euros it saves in 5 or 6 people. Breeding consultant johana is on her way home. And shes taken her work with. Today. Your honner 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 inbreeding she wants to compensate for deficiencies and boosts the healthy traits of the animals. Is up looking young and its pure optimization i compare it with farming machines or smartphones theyre constantly being upgraded on smartphones you can often was right and we grew no one wants to use Farm Equipment thats 50 years old what were doing with the cows is no different only their natural. Movement including taking a living being and optimizing it naturally mostly movies and games of the sleeve of 3 or by dropping if. The flight route is set. And i have a works. Why would it why would it work. The laptop wont send the flight map to the drone oh sorry its not trying for the cable. Further and im talking on a failed wonderful. So there was a. U. S. B. Ok the. The 3 marks very nice. 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 too sick. Sick. Sick the devices still cant interact with each other. Does the noise get 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. I can or cant stand it back now. Finally its connected but. If the strings off because the computers dead. The 1st of 9 days already half gone will burned file his 1st assignment. I meant lumbergh Lake District is where the company your hanna works for is based here at number one bull and in the town of old a big its home to 120 of the most valuable bulls for breeding in northern germany including singulair a