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Te Radar joins us, fully wired and caffeinated to share some incredible developments about the future of farming. Radar is a NZ broadcasting icon and has been making TV and radio programmes for decades about sustainability and our relationship to the environment. He comes from a farming family and has travelled the world meeting agriculturalists from all over the planet who are doing things differently. We discuss the difficulties of treating trees as a total solution for offsetting carbon, moving people from a free hold mentality regarding land to a lease hold mentality (nature being the leaseholder) and much more. Radar also shares his optimism about the future, the younger generation and vertical farming.
Links and ResourcesAlanna Mitchell's book, SeasickChina has culled 100m pigsAI-assisted pig farmingTech advances in Chinese supermarkets increasing trackability of farm-to-table food journeys40% of US Farmers' 2019 income will come from government subsidies and insurance
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