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May 2019 | Volume 53 |
Issue 5
High-Tech Tools
2019
Vegetable Growers News asked a leading engineering professor, futurists and a grower what vegetable production will look like in 20 years' time, from planting to harvest.
By Stephen Kloosterman
Associate Editor
Cutting-edge growers, researchers
and dreamers agree on one thing:
Vegetable farming 20 years from now
will be much different than it is today.
Those changes will likely come
not just from robots, advancements
in plant genetics, use of the Internet
of Things - or any other single
discipline - but where those inroads
cross later in the future, said David C.
Slaughter, a biological and agricultural
engineering professor at the
University of California-Davis, and
champion of its Smart Farm initiative.
" Just in general in the future, we're
going to see these opportunities that
a variety of different technologies
are going to bring, both in terms
of biotechnology as well as
artificial intelligence and robotics
technology, " Slaughter said. " A
number of technologies are going to
come together. "
Planting
Where and how growers plant could
drastically change in the next 20 years.
Futurist and strategic advisor
Daniel Burrus said that climate
change could make controlled
environment agriculture more
favorable for growers.
" Think of it as weather chaos, " he
said. " Growers don't like weather
chaos, and you can get enormous
stability indoors. "
" Where we grow our vegetables is
going to change, " said futurist and
author Jack Uldrich. Leafy greens are
already being grown in urban farms.
Some other shifts are likely to take
place due to climate change, he said.
" The Corn Belt is already moving
north - moving out of Iowa and into
Minnesota - and in 50 years it could
be in Canada. "
Lynn Trizna manages St. Luke's
Rodale Institute Organic Farm, a
farm-to-hospital operation located
on 11.5 acres in eastern Pennsylvania.
She's seen how much the weather can
change from year to year, and the
importance for growers to be resilient
and able to change with the climate.
For her, that means investing in the
soil with " intense cover cropping "
and soil tests.
" We have a certain game plan of
See FUTURE, page 5

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