The Future of Agriculture

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Today’s World

“I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.”

Bill Gates

2.87bn smart phones by 2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartphone-users-worldwide/

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-largest-companies-market-cap-15-years/

Data is the new oil.

“The amount of data on the planet is set to grow 10-fold in the next six years to 2020 from around 4.4 zettabytes to 44ZB.”

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240217788/Data-set-to-grow-10-fold-by-2020-as-internet-of-things-takes-off

“Food production must increase with 60% to be able to feed the growing

population expected to hit 9 billion in 2050.”

United Nations

Internet of Things

And, the future…

Big Data

Artificial Intelligence

Water…

Hogs

Internet of Things

“The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software,

sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and

exchange data.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things

The promise: • Higher productivity and more efficient

use of land, water and fertilizer. • Greater transparency. • Big data, and the software to collect it.

“94% of all businesses have seen a return on their IoT investments.”

CMO.com

Source: http://www.cmo.com/articles/2015/4/13/mind-blowing-stats-internet-of-things-iot.html

Source: http://modernfarmer.com/2013/08/5-robots-on-the-farm/

Source: http://modernfarmer.com/2013/08/5-robots-on-the-farm/https://www.realagriculture.com/2017/01/sclerotinia-biosensor-could-text-you-when-its-time-to-spray/

InnoTech Alberta - Sclerotinia detection in canola

“Moocall believes it could reduce the mortality rate of cows and calves by 80%.

More than 110,000 calves and 50,000 cows die each year due to birthing complications. In

addition to saving lives, it can save farmers money, with cows costing between £1,000 and £5,000 a pop, and also increase productivity.”

PigWatch (Ro-Main) “Thanks to the system's 24/7 electronic sow behaviour analysis capability, you can now monitor in real time the heat (oestrus) status of each sow.

It is like having a highly skilled pig farm worker standing behind each sow day and night, 365 days a year.”

http://www.ro-main.com/en/products/details_products.php?no_produit=22

Challenges • Cost efficiency • Connectivity • Security • Maintenance and Upgrades • Data, data, data • Training

Big Data

The promise • Better decisions that prevent

mistakes and increase efficiency. • Machine learning. • Optimized planting • Identify disease outbreaks. • Creating better seeds and hybrids

Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-mine-market-moving-data-from-fields-parking-lotseven-shadows-1416502993

“UBS predicts that Wal-Mart’s second quarter sales will be up from the first quarter, but

down a percent against the same period a year ago.

But the satellite analysts figure that the number will come in 0.7 percent higher—not lower—based on the traffic surge they saw in the

parking lots.”http://www.cnbc.com/id/38722872

Source: http://www.cmo.com/articles/2015/4/13/mind-blowing-stats-internet-of-things-iot.html

Farm at Hand - Enterprise Resource Planning

Source: https://www.deere.com/en_US/corporate/our_company/news_and_media/press_releases/2014/agriculture/2014aug21_mjd_operations_center.page

What about ‘pig data’?

Pigwise

http://o.zoetisus.com/pigwise.html

Challenges • Who owns the data? • How easy is it to acquire data? • Who profits off of the analytics? • How secure are the services?

Artificial Intelligence

The promise • Machine learning. • Automation. • Improved planning and efficiency. • 24/7/365 operations.

"AI is the new electricity”

Andrew NG, Chief Scientist, Baidu

“42% of Canadian jobs at high risk of being affected by

automation.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/automation-job-brookfield-1.3636253

Retail salesperson. Administrative assistant. Food counter attendant.

Cashier. Transport truck driver.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/automation-job-brookfield-1.3636253

Challenges • Changing how we train people for

work in a more technical world. • Training AI and building trust. • Maintenance. • Security.

Solar

“The solar and wind industries are each creating jobs at a rate 12 times faster than

that of the rest of the U.S. economy.”

http://fortune.com/2017/01/27/solar-wind-renewable-jobs/

“There is not a single crop that we could have grown on that land that would

generate the income that we get from the solar farm.”

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/04/solar-power-more-lucrative-than-crops-at-some-us-farms.html

“Solar companies, meanwhile, are paying top dollar, offering annual rents of $300 to

$700 an acre, according to the NC Sustainable Energy Association.”

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2016/04/solar-power-more-lucrative-than-crops-at-some-us-farms.html

https://us.sunpower.com/commercial-solar/industries/agriculture/

“New investments [in solar in Canada] dropped 46% in 2016, bringing it to the lowest its been in a decade, according to

data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/07/solar-power_n_14636622.html

Security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9q2lOZ1Fw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcoVMXLTQzw

Power Grids Traffic Grids

“Between April 2014 and the end of 2015, the FBI received 4,291 reports of ransomware attacks. Losses over that period totaled nearly $50 million.”

FUSION

http://fusion.net/story/278801/hackers-ransomware-hospital-smart-cities/

Water

“The global water footprint of pigs in the period 1996-2005 was about 460 billion m3/yr, which was 19% of the total water

footprint of animal production in the world (all farm animals).”

Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2010, 2012).

http://waterfootprint.org/en/resources/interactive-tools/product-gallery/

http://waterfootprint.org/en/resources/interactive-tools/product-gallery/

“86% of the people in the developed world will live in cities by 2050.”

United Nations

Hydroponics

"We're growing in 16 days what otherwise takes 30 days in a field - using

95% less water, about 50% less fertilizers, zero pesticides, herbicides, fungicides"

David Rosenberg, CEO, AeroFarms

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/24/vertical-farming-the-next-big-thing-for-food-and-tech.html

http://www.ecobaingardens.ca/

Aquaponics

https://www.springwise.com/dutch-shoppers-pick-herbs-supermarket-garden/

In the UK, veganism has exploded by 360% over the last decade, and vegan

food sales are up 1500% in the last year.

http://modernfarmer.com/2017/02/veganism-mainstream/

33% of Canadians, or almost 12 million, are either already vegetarian or are

eating less meat.

http://www.vancouverhumanesociety.bc.ca/almost-12-million-canadians-now-vegetarian-or-trying-to-eat-less-meat/

Hogs

All animals are equal, but some

animals are more equal than others.

The most consumed protein in the world is pork and there are over 1

billion pigs in the world.

http://www.fooddialogues.com/headlines/sustainability/what-is-the-future-of-pig-farming

“Raising pigs for food began over 9,000 years ago and the biological fundamentals have not dramatically

changed.

Environmentally controlled conditions, artificial insemination, nutrition and genetic selection have all

advanced. But, the basics have not changed. They must be done seven days a week, all year long, year in year

out. There is no black box for production of pigs.”

http://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/mag/farming_circa_visions_pork

Many of the technologies that we’ve looked at can be applied to pig farming but

what else is there?

Energy

90 people per day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/how-autonomous-vehicles-will-transform-economies/article28931855/

“Every ten minutes, a person is added to the national waiting list for organ

transplants. And every day, 22 people on that list die without the organ they need.

What if, rather than relying on a generous donor, you could grow a custom organ

inside an animal instead?”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-gene-editing-farming-idUSKCN0YH1FS

http://modernfarmer.com/2014/03/ethics-using-pigs-farms-human-organs/

Dr. Tector said he and collaborators previously used Crispr to create pigs with

three genes knocked out that play a crucial role in why human immune systems reject a pig organ. He has preliminary data with pig

kidneys transplanted into two rhesus monkeys; the longest lived more than a year.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/potent-fix-for-transplant-shortage-genetically-modified-pigs-1480604400

Further to the south of England in Basingstoke, animal genetics firm Genus

has tapped the same "CRISPR-Cas9" technique to develop the world's first pigs

resistant to a devastating and common viral disease, in a tie-up with U.S. researchers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-gene-editing-farming-idUSKCN0YH1FS

“Early tests have revealed that cells from the pigs are completely resistant to (PRRS) infection with both major subtypes of the

virus that causes the disease.”

University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uoe-gps022217.php

Gene-editing record smashed in pigs. Researchers modify more than 60 genes in effort to enable organ transplants into

humans.

http://www.nature.com/news/gene-editing-record-smashed-in-pigs-1.18525

And, then we have human-pig chimeras.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/human-pig-hybrid-embryo-chimera-organs-health-science/#/02-human-pig-chimera.jpg

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25576718

Mangalitsa

The Future?

http://www.new-harvest.org/

http://www.new-harvest.org/

From $325,000 to $11.36

http://www.memphismeats.com/

http://www.memphismeats.com/

Enhanced Development of Skeletal Myotubes from Porcine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/lab-grown-pork-chop/ + http://www.nature.com/articles/srep41833

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hampton-creek-just-mayo/https://www.soylent.com/

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