COVID has stopped international travel cold. Now, Canadian farmers can no longer rely on immigrant labor to work their fields. What is the answer?
Meet Dot: a fully automated seeder and harvester. Dot starts her engine, rolls out to the field on her own, and comes back with the harvest.
Like a self-driving car, Dot is just the beginning of an A.I. farming revolution that may soon cover the agricultural landscape.
Up Next in Season 1
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There's an App for That
Modern farms are vast – far too big for a person to cover in a day. So today’s farmer instead relies on a network of sensors and satellites to keep an eye on their crops. But sometimes that can mean too much data to make sense of.
Decisive Farming of Beiseker specializes in making all that digita... -
Go Vertical
As international food supply chains are strained to the limit, small local farms are increasingly important.
Nick Hsu runs a small basil farm where he uses no pesticides and almost no fertilizer. It’s a unique vertical aquaponics system that grows wonderful organic produce for Calgary restaurants... -
Hand in Glove
Who wants to go grocery shopping when a trip to the market can kill you?
But staying home means we must rely on people to select our food and deliver it to our door.
So: what’s in the box? In Calgary, one company called YYC Growers can assure its customers that everything landing on their doorste...
