Future of Food: Farming in the age of climate change 

"Farmers will feel the impacts in their fields before we feel them in our grocery stores" is such a good line, and definitely true. Great video.

"this is the ark we're building before the rain" - that hit me hard

This was a heart warming video. It really shows how hard these farmers have to work for the future of mankind, for OUR future. It's truly inspirational.

When it’s a farmer not a scientist talking about climate change, you should know it had gong too far

I just came here because I would like to say that while they raised some important issues in this video, the solutions they portrayed are not at all solutions. I'm a student of Agroecology in university so I can say with some property that organic farming as it was portrayed here does not at all changes how we produce and distribute food, it's only difference from conventional agriculture is that it ceases to use chemicals. This is a problem, as is the very system of food production that it keeps that must be replaced in order for meaning change to happen. We need a much more deep and complex change. A system change. Organic farming is not that! It still has a high degree of machinery use (and so fossil fuel), water usage and outside input (for example the manure he talks about in the video, where is this coming from? Organic agriculture does not adress that) usage. It doesn't get better with hydroponics. So no, this is NOT the future of farming, because if it is, funnily, it will not be on longer future. As those two kinds of farming portrayed do not address the reasons why we are in the situation of climate change in the first place and so it cannot sustain life in the planet on a long-term. So we actually need a cultural and spiritual change, a fundamental change in the way humanity understands itself and see its place in this world and our interactions with it. To begin with, I recommend a read on Permaculture.

This is really high quality... Nice job

Indoor vertical farming is the future. Less water, no soil, artificial lighting, and local.

Decomposing/oxidizing cow manure is probably the largest greenhouse gas contributor world wide... I live in a country that also uses it on every field but the best way to use it will be always mixed up in a ratio with other decomposing matter like 30% leafs,fruits,peals etc 30% cow manure 30% recycle paper,cardboard,wood chips, sticks etc in that way the soil will be way more balance in terms of holding moisture and nutrition. Also too much cow manure can essentially "burn" your crops.

4:55 i am really angry about how this man ruined his opportunity to make the "all eggs in one basket" pun

I absolutely love that you made the soil a focus. Soil is so critically important. Concentional farming destroys millions of acres of heirable land every year.

05:52 um excuse you that was perfectly good pasta

i see a close family with full belly and hearts. thats rare

A correction for 2:13 For these farmers all this effort is worth it, because for them the future of food has alot to do with the premium price of organic crops

I feel sad when the *World's 2nd most visited* website doesn't have issues like this on trending, instead typical Hollywood baloney. 😔

Innovation is awesome

Awesome, clean, editing 😍

3:46 That's my Minecraft sugarcane farm

They got the idea...we like permaculture and food forest too!

I get an Interstellar vibe, nicely done!

I love videos like this. very informative

I want a farm that no one can see because if the manure ever hits the fan, people will go to great lengths to eat. I’ve been really interested in what Kimbal musk is doing & other aquaponic farmers are doing. This family is so sweet & knows it is better to prepare than doing nothing at all, much respect & love to them.

the best solution its gmos in vertical farming because then we can let that land previously used to crops to grow forest less space, less price, less impact

This comment is filled with maaa frieeeeends! Like everyone else I am stoked on the quality of this video and it's inspirational message. Great work Quartz!

The minute 7:13, reminded me of my dad when I was a kid.

Its a shame they didn’t mention the upcoming phosphate crisis of running out of essential nutrients for plants to grow, this is in the next few decades!!

05:13 "That's because the human race will consume more food in the next 50 years than it has in the past 10,000 years combined." This is admittedly terrifying, but it signifies what a unique point in history we occupy. We must understand all that history has taught us, but all the rules have changed. We are at the nexus of many powerful forces, including technology, overreliance on technology, a globalization via the Internet wherein the younger generation has more in common with people their age in faraway countries than they do with their parents; a globalization that makes corporations more powerful than countries. We have the ability to solve things that never before could be solved, and the ability to end our civilization with our sheer population of mindless consumer units voting for mindless populist governments. The human race hasn't faced extinction in a long time. Let's hope we find our survival instinct and awaken to our challenge.

So many abandoned malls, parking Garages, Manufacturing plants

Very pleasing to see kids just being kids instead of device zombies

I’m watching this because of online school lol

Better to embrace change on your own terms than wait until it embraces you by force. Beautiful

What the hell? Only 2k likes? Deserves waaay more for this high quality.

High quality Content front Quartz as always.

Funny how a lot of people think the world is ending but really the world is just changing, for the better

There are all these warning signs when I was a kid, and my dad just looked the other way, and now look at what I have to deal with.

My family aren't farmers anymore, it never was. My Dad was a computer salesman. Half the time unemployed or half the time employed. Mom was a veterinarian and later a high school science teacher then an R.O.P. veterinary teacher.

There's a movie called CODE46 I don't know how many people ever saw it,but it is worth a watch because there is a part that illustrates the female character supporting(really lead character) who has a vertical farm in her place. Acouple other dystopians all mention thee importance of having a vertical farm in one's home. Unfortunately, this is your future.

You can’t just say “knock on wood” you have to actually do it. Otherwise the gods just roll their eyes.

You know we could just limit population growth, then we wouldn't need so much food and the farland could replenish itself more easily while slowly learning how to make it completely sustainable.

"It's not just another gadget" - that hit me hard Save the world Food and Water!

Thought provoking... clarity and quality of the content is truely amazing as always... good job Quartz... eager for more...

The organic farmers that we saw in the beginning and at the end are what the best conventional farmers are doing today. Constant monitoring of the soil’s nutrients and organic matter in essential to sustainable farming. On our conventional farm since we switched to a no till operation 15 years ago we have noticed big difference in our organic matter and the soil’s ability to hold moisture has increased. We seed wheat, barley, canola, and peas in a four year rotation to help manage disease, weeds and insects so that we are not 100% reliant on pesticides. This also reduces our input costs. What I’m trying to say is that you don’t have to farm organically and drive food prices up at the consumer level to farm sustainability and ethically.

This channel is just epic, keep up the good work guys

I feel another solution to aid in this is that people consume the necessary amount of food they need to live with the occasional treat. Also having less kids or no children could help since there are so many of us to begin with.

How to calculate. Say you buy a farm for 100000$ and every year maintenance and labor is 5000$. Then minimum return of investment is 5%. Say 10000$ per year.

I was reminded of the film Diet for a New America. Their content is complimentary .

So grow food using permaculture techniques like we did centuries ago lol ok great glad you guys figured out what us homesteaders already knew

Beautifully edited and superbly shot Video.💯 Very Inspiring too.

I find it interesting how Bayer is still aggressively pursuing green revolution agriculture in the third world (and displacing and impoverishing peasant farmers in the process) even as we're coming to understand how unsustainable it is.

Just finished watching what happens next season 1. It made me think more of the basic things. Thanks guys. 🙏🙏

have to use led grow light or can not keep balance as will consume huge power.

Cleaner healthyer food. Whats not to love. No pesticides or fertiliser clean fresh

i like the egg sorting thing

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Climate changes regardless, they ship strawberries to Michigan form California, when did Michigan stop being able to grow plants?

but the problem is that not enough people like this family realizes the problem of the climate change

Living in Patagonia, where food barely grows, owing a farm, I can say that complaining and growing fake food indoors will destroy food as we know it.

The farm had exposed, compact, degraded soil with plastic and machines, and a diminished ecosystem. The next operation had plastic, steel, chemicals, and also no ecosystem. This is the opposite of living with nature and cooperating with ecosystems.

Very nicely done video. Glad to see a farmer growing organically and diversifying. We live in West-central MN and it's all mono crop around here; either field corn or soy beans. I see some grasses grown for hay. Thanks!

Advance green house may be good for micro growth but hight refresher rate

5:15 Hey, this graph looks familiar. What's it called? "Exponential growth?" What's he say? "We're going to need it all." I'm glad he finds this a problem that "we" can deal with.

One of the best farming videos I have seen! Great job!

Organic farming is nice, it is the way my family farmed when I was a child. The problem with that is it takes a tremendous amount of physical labor, therefore, limiting production. I do not believe in climate change as something new the earth has and always will continue to change. You are right in stressing the need for increased production with world population projected to push 9 billion by 2050. The thing that bothers me most about increaseing production is the takeing out of production of our most productive soils through urbanizatoion, with absoluately no regard for future generations, all in the name of progress "greed".

Looks like there are now colossal crop failures around the world now. Too much rain and too much cold weather.

"New York City will be underwater by 2012" Totally true

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what if the seeds itself is genetically modified? Is there still purely organic plant seeds that are being sold? I really hope someone can tell me

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That ark part has me

It's not so much about "organic" it's about biodiverse agriculture.

This video produced a lot of good proverbs.

The food waste problem is a big deal. I work as a busser at a restaurant and you have no idea how many full plates of pizza I've had to throw away.

shared n spread ...and be humble future currency must be food not some random paper or metal so lets make it happen

I bet those kids are having an amazing childhood

05:35 "And we've got to remember that overlying it all is the consumer, and the consumer is king and queen. And they ultimately will decide what they're going to eat, and therefore, what the future of agriculture is going to look like." It was a great profile on the responsibility of farmers, but they have none greater than to follow the demands of the consumer. We don't get to a sustainable, plant-based agriculture because farmers recognize the need and stop feeding all the plants to animals -- we consumers have to send that message to the marketplace, and the farmers need to respond. And I DON'T mean respond by demanding more subsidies to maintain obsolete flesh industries! Farmers can save the world by following the plant-based shift and not resisting until we have no choice but to stop subsidizing unsustainable production. Every farmer who feels the tradition of passing on their ranch or hog farm is more important than following necessary trends isn't gifting their children at all.

5:20 I like how they just extrapolate that graph, as though it's a given that the human population will simply grow without bound forever. Same thing with climate change, nobody thinks about how we might just hit a plateau. The climate might become just humid and hot enough to provide huge crop yields for decades, but then never go any hotter (like in the Roman Climate Optimum)

Outstanding productions....just found your channel!

building up is best for indoor farming

It's a great video, but I'm pretty sure we don't have a world population of more than 21,310 billion people.

It should be organic but people shouldn't give up on GMOs, open source Gmo companies that aren't monopolized and that don't use pesticides or fertilizers is the future.

7:13 Such bliss...

Nice report...thanks for sharing!

Wonderful. Thanks

What was that orange salad dressing they used??

Can anybody help me? I have this on-going argument with someone that if really "a vertical farming" would benefit us. He said it's just a waste profit. His look of future is kind of dumb for me you know. I want to believe that vertical farming is indeed one of the solution to the modern agriculture! But I'm quite having a trouble with the feasibility of this farming system... Hoping to find some answers here! If my explanation is quite not clear to you, feel free to ask with the reply.😀

Does plowing the land not release carbon?

What about home gardens, victory gardens? THAT would go a long way to help families.

Cool! But also kind of annoying. Going organic is more profitable because people spend more for a less efficient crop?

I want an episode just about that indoor farm

The Ortman family are awesome.

5:00 I bet he wanted to use "eggs in one basket" but realized that it would be too corny.

This was a well made video. Smart individuals.. located in an.. sparsely populated area.

you know that were actually growing more food per person than ever before, mainly in part thanks to fertilizers , produced by oils and that the earth is getting greener

Food production is mostly from massive corporations, family farms are disappearing. Just ask the rep at your local grocery store where your produce came from... Could be the other side of the planet... Especially with beef.

There are a number of other problems, the construction homes and neighborhoods on farm land, the destruction of vegetation, forests around the world, the soon be shortage of water due mostly from over population and then the end comes from pollution which we seem to control fairly well here in the U.S. but the rest of the world has yet to accept and apply any controls. We can die from any of these issues, nit juts because of climate change. I do believe we contribute but also believe we as a planet are doing nothing.

this is the real content .

Interstellar called it!

Source for the calories graph they showed?

Good quality video right here.

6:55 There was a fly on his hat.

What about Rudolf Steiner?