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00:17Every January, for a few days, fields right across the country have no farmers in them.
00:24Because this is the time of year when they go to Birmingham for llama.
00:30The annual farm machinery show.
00:34Look at the amount of pick-up trucks going to the NEC.
00:38Now, this is a proper look at this chap here. He's got it all worked out.
00:42No styling happened with that roof on his pick-up.
00:45No, but it's designed to fit in a lot of dead cheap.
00:48Exactly.
00:51Once inside the vast halls, Caleb became as excited as I used to be
00:57at motor shows when I was eight.
01:01Oh, look at the CR9.
01:03That's where they had the CR11 last year.
01:05This is a smaller version of it.
01:08I can't work out why they've got... This is the CR... This is CR990.
01:12I know, it says that.
01:14It's nice, isn't it? I like the colour. It's got black rims.
01:16Yes.
01:16Oh, look at that. And it's got the blue round the outside.
01:19That's cool, that. That's me. That's a bit of me, that.
01:22What is? That.
01:25Look at it, it blinged up.
01:27I meanwhile felt like my sister used to feel at motor shows when she was eight.
01:33Completely baffled by everything.
01:36What's that?
01:40This is a great start.
01:46What's that?
01:47A mower?
01:48Nearly, it's a mulcher.
01:49Oh, is it?
01:50Yeah.
01:51What's that?
01:54Erm...
01:54Muck spreader?
01:55No.
01:55What is that?
01:56That's a straw blower.
01:57What's that there?
01:59Pile driver.
02:00Log splitter.
02:02What's that one over there, then?
02:04It's a tedder.
02:05It's a what?
02:05It's a tedder.
02:06So you mow your grass, you come through with the tedder, flips it back over.
02:10You see what I mean?
02:11No.
02:12Caleb?
02:13How you doing?
02:14You doing well?
02:14Yeah, not bad, mate.
02:15Good to see you.
02:16Where is the old...
02:17There he is.
02:18How are you? You all right?
02:20Yeah, not too bad.
02:21Caleb, just endlessly stopped by big boned men with stout shoes on.
02:27Pauses only to tell me things that make no sense.
02:33Later in the morning, I lost my guide.
02:38Because he'd been booked to take part in some sort of rural ted talk.
02:44Hello, everybody.
02:45I'm Caleb.
02:46Probably best known as On Clarkson's Farm.
02:49But, of course, I've got my own theatre tour that I did at the beginning of the year.
02:52I've also got three books out.
02:54As he humbly introduced himself,
02:57I walked around in a state of complete confusion.
03:03What is that?
03:06And what's that?
03:10And that?
03:12Oh, look, a lunar rover.
03:15See, it's what it's like when you walk around without Caleb.
03:18It's like being in a...
03:20I don't know, a market in Cambodia,
03:22where you just look at all the things and think,
03:24oh, is that a fish?
03:26Is it a plant?
03:28I don't know.
03:31Eventually, I arrived in a hall full of futuristic high-tech equipment.
03:38Where I expected to be even more baffled.
03:43But, once the salesman got his teeth into me,
03:46I became quite intrigued.
03:49Have you ever seen something like this before?
03:51No.
03:52What is it?
03:54It's a seeding and weeding machine.
03:56It's an autonomous vehicle, electrical-driven.
03:58It's powered...
04:00I'm guessing solar.
04:01It's powered by the solar, yeah.
04:02In Denmark?
04:03Solar.
04:04Solar, yeah.
04:05June the 7th, 1981, there was a sunny day there.
04:09Exactly.
04:10But what if there's no sunshine, which does happen?
04:12It does actually run 24-7.
04:14It have a battery pack in the back,
04:16so it's running in the night, too.
04:17So then, how's the weeding and seeding?
04:19Basically, this is a seeding machine,
04:22it's a weeding machine, and it's all done by GPS.
04:25How accurate is it?
04:27Accuracy between 8 and 10 millimeters.
04:29Oh, my word.
04:30What's the phallus?
04:33This one, that's the GSM antenna.
04:35So what's that, then?
04:36That's the GPS antenna.
04:38And the last one here, that is the rain gorge.
04:41So if it suddenly starts raining,
04:44let's say one millimeter of rain,
04:46it will just stop the operation to avoid damaging the crops,
04:49and then you, of course, get a message back saying,
04:51okay, it stopped due to the rain.
04:53Oh, you can talk to it.
04:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:55So you're looking on your phone or your tablet,
04:58on an app, then you can see, you know,
05:00if it's running out of seed, it will stop,
05:02and send a message back,
05:04hey, Jeremy, I'm out of seeds.
05:06So my recommendation is to choose the high value crop.
05:10It could be onion, or beets, or red beets.
05:13Onions? Are onions high value?
05:15I would say so, yeah.
05:17If you filled those up with onions,
05:19how big a field would it do before it ran out?
05:22You can seed at least five hectares, that's no problem.
05:25So that's what, 12 acres?
05:26We're doing five hectares a day.
05:29That's brilliant.
05:31Meanwhile, over in the TED talk,
05:33Caleb was in Thor, life coach, guru mode.
05:38Dreams don't work unless you do.
05:39I take that with me all the time.
05:41You can do it, and no matter what you do,
05:42if you keep working hard, and again, dreams don't work unless you,
05:45you can make that happen.
05:46So I think actually believe in yourself, and actually just go,
05:49yeah, you are good enough, straight away from the get-go.
05:51Don't ever believe that you're not.
05:52And if you're not, it's fine, you're just not meant to be,
05:54and not meant to be doing that certain thing.
05:58Back in the future, having been bewitched by a machine
06:02that could plant crops without the need for a tractor,
06:05I'd now found a tractor that had no need for a driver.
06:10So this is probably the first in the market
06:12that is a fully autonomous tractor
06:14that we can let go night and day, unattended.
06:18So it just runs?
06:19Runs night and day, set it off, go to bed,
06:22get up in the morning, job done.
06:23You set it up to drill?
06:26Yeah, cultivate.
06:27So standard rear linkage,
06:29so you can put all your existing implements on,
06:31standard hydraulics, front linkage,
06:34just everything that you need.
06:36How fast will this one go along?
06:38Is it just like a normal tractor speed?
06:40Yeah, so 0 to 12.6 kilometres an hour.
06:44Okay, so fast enough to do normal farming?
06:46Fast enough, absolutely. Normal work, yeah.
06:47So it can do normal farming?
06:49Yep, without Caleb.
06:51A tractor with no aggravation.
06:53Imagine that.
06:54Oh, no Caleb.
06:56No Caleb.
06:57Just imagine.
07:01My mind was now racing with all sorts of new ideas.
07:08Which the following day I couldn't wait to share with Charlie.
07:16Farming does what it does year in and year out.
07:19Yeah.
07:20We are reaching a point where that's just not working anymore.
07:25The climate's changing and we have a truly idiotic government.
07:29So it's like beating your head against a wall.
07:32Idiotic government and it never stops raining.
07:35There's no point doing what you do year in, year out.
07:38It's just the definition of idiocy.
07:40It is.
07:40It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
07:43Yep.
07:44We've now reached a point where farmers, I think, have to say,
07:47we have to do this differently.
07:49Yep.
07:50So, there it is.
07:56An ag bot?
07:57Yeah.
07:59You're going to have a driverless tractor?
08:03I'm not a very good tractor driver.
08:05I've come to understand that after five years.
08:07I can't plough.
08:08I can't cultivate.
08:10I can't drill.
08:11I can't attach anything to it still.
08:14Once that thing's plodding around doing cultivating or drilling or whatever job you've given it.
08:20Yep.
08:20You can be getting on with something else.
08:22And it doesn't make mistakes.
08:24Unlike me.
08:26Um, okay.
08:28You have to mark out obstacles in the field as well, presumably.
08:31We haven't really got any obstacles in our fields.
08:33We don't have trees.
08:34We've got one telegraph pole that I hit in...
08:37There are five in that field.
08:39Will it lift everything?
08:42It looks quite compact.
08:44They must have written what its lifting capabilities are.
08:48Did you not ask?
08:49No.
08:50I just thought it looked really cool.
08:52And that brings me on to seeding and weeding robot.
09:00But that's going to do the planting?
09:02Ah, not of the onions and beetroot.
09:06We don't grow onions and beetroot.
09:09We're growing onions and beetroot.
09:11Yeah.
09:14Why onions and beetroot?
09:15Because that's what this can do.
09:17So, the tech does it, so we're growing it?
09:21I want to see if it does it.
09:29While Charlie went off to source this new kit,
09:33I decided to go to the Netherlands,
09:36to look at the high-tech farming that they're doing over there.
09:44At first, this felt odd, because normally when I'm on a road trip with a film crew,
09:50I'm accompanied by Hammond and May, who are also seasoned globetrotters.
09:56This time, though, my companion wasn't.
10:00Oh, I can't talk dude.
10:20How is it the idea of a river that I'm using today?
10:22So that's the fact that there's a mare that has all over the fish.
10:25So in France, when you're on a road trip, you're doing everything.
10:27Can you tell me when you're on a road trip?
10:29I know, I don't think we are. You haven't even left Oxford yet.
10:33What's going on in my mind?
10:35You know, when we get over, though, it's an hour ahead.
10:38Is it? Mm-hm.
10:40How? What? How?
10:42It just is.
10:47But how?
10:48Apart from Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, Germany,
10:52all of Europe, really, is an hour ahead of us.
10:54Will I get jet lag?
10:57No, it's only like when the clocks go back and forwards in England.
11:00Oh, OK.
11:04As Ranul finds an eye headed towards the Channel Tunnel,
11:08I explain the thinking behind our fact-finding mission.
11:13So, when I was at Lama, I started to realise
11:16we've got to get more tech.
11:19We've got to get more modern. The future.
11:21Well, here's the deal.
11:23I once did that programme, Who Do You Think You Are?
11:26Well, you trace your family tree. Mm-hm.
11:28And I discovered that I'm from this family called the Kilners.
11:32OK? It was my great-grandmother was a kilner.
11:34And they had this huge company that made glass.
11:37Huge. Massive.
11:39They had two factories, each of which covered an area of 17 acres.
11:43Holy moly. They're big. Wow.
11:44If you bought anything in the world made that was in glass,
11:48so a gin sling in Singapore, a bottle of pills in Texas,
11:51it almost certainly came in a bottle made by the Kilners.
11:55Yeah. They were massive.
11:56Anyway, they didn't modernise. Right.
11:59And all these little glass makers were coming along
12:01using modern technology. Yeah.
12:04And before you knew it, Kilners had gone, cos they didn't...
12:07They were stuck in the past. They were stuck in the past.
12:10Yeah. And they were wiped out.
12:11And they were wiped out really quickly.
12:13So I think diddly-squats got to get a bit more techy.
12:16Yeah. I think that's what I'm saying.
12:18And in Holland, they're very fastidious in their farming
12:22as far as that can work out. Yeah.
12:24I think I was reading the other day
12:25that they're the most efficient farmers in Europe.
12:27Really? The Danes and the Dutch, yeah.
12:36Five miles.
12:40I've got butterflies.
12:41Have you?
12:42Yeah.
12:46What number plate's that, then?
12:48Dutch.
12:49Is it?
12:50NL.
12:51What does it mean?
12:53Netherlands.
12:56E.
12:58Portugal.
13:02Denmark.
13:03D.
13:04Germany.
13:06What a D.
13:07Deutschland.
13:10You'd have thought they'd put G on it for Germany, wouldn't you?
13:12Hmm?
13:12You'd have thought they'd put G on it for Germany.
13:14Yeah, but they call themselves Deutschland, remember?
13:18Why?
13:19That's what they're naming themselves.
13:20Because everyone hates Germany.
13:31leaving England.
13:32You see my passport?
13:34Look how shiny it is.
13:36Shinier than mine, probably.
13:38Ooh, blue.
13:39You've got a blue one.
13:40Let's have a look at your passport.
13:43Yeah, you look like a crim.
13:44Your middle name's Wayne.
13:46I didn't know that.
13:47Yeah.
13:47How ridiculous.
13:48What do you mean, how ridiculous?
13:50It's just funny.
13:52Once we cleared passport control, Wayne started asking me about the actual tunnel.
14:00How deep is it?
14:06Well, it's underneath the bottom of the sea, if that makes sense.
14:10So it's quite deep.
14:13I mean, psychologically, you know you're under the sea, but it's only the same as being
14:17in a tunnel.
14:18You've never been in a tunnel, have you?
14:20No.
14:20No.
14:21God.
14:23How many trains are down there?
14:25I don't know.
14:26How many carriages does it pull?
14:28Don't know.
14:29How many cars does it fit on a carriage?
14:31I don't know.
14:32When was the Titanic?
14:34When was the Titanic?
14:351912.
14:38OK, so this was after the...
14:40This was obviously...
14:41Well, after this.
14:42This was 1988.
14:48Holy shit, how wide is it?
14:49The train's quite wide.
14:56And here we go.
14:57We're out mounting the train.
15:01It's weird to think this is the first train you've ever been on.
15:04But not many people are able to say that the first train they ever went on
15:09was a Eurostar train.
15:14You can get out.
15:15Stretch your legs.
15:18I want to stay here.
15:20What?
15:21You don't want to get out?
15:22No.
15:24You do look nervous.
15:26I fucking am!
15:29How'd they put oxygen down there?
15:31What do you mean?
15:34How'd they get oxygen flowing through the...
15:37It's not sealed at the end?
15:41If there's two holes at either end, it's full of air.
15:45Yeah, but surely you've got to push the air down there.
15:48No.
15:49Air rises up.
15:51No, it doesn't.
15:52Air goes in any direction it wants.
15:54If you go so far under the sea, air doesn't travel through water.
15:59You're not...
16:00No, but either end isn't under the water.
16:02We're going into a hole which is above the ground.
16:07Above the water.
16:11Exactly.
16:12So let's say this is the sea, yes?
16:14Yeah.
16:15The hole starts here and here and goes down like this.
16:18The air is only going to fill here.
16:20There's air in the tunnel, Caleb.
16:22I promise there's air.
16:23You don't need scuba outfits to cope.
16:27There will be air.
16:29Oh, we're moving.
16:31Here we go.
16:34There we are.
16:40Luckily, the tunnel didn't spring a leak or run out of oxygen on that particular journey.
16:47And half an hour after setting off, we were in France.
16:52You're abroad.
16:54I'm out of England.
16:57It's sort of weird, isn't it?
16:59Well...
17:00I think five years ago a day.
17:01I know, five years.
17:02You're not even out of Chippy Norton.
17:04They'll look at you.
17:05You're like James Bond.
17:11We crossed the border into Belgium
17:14and eventually reached our overnight halt in the city of Bruges.
17:22Which I was keen for Caleb to see.
17:32Oh, wow.
17:33This is what abroad is like.
17:36Everywhere's like it.
17:37That's very pretty, isn't it?
17:38Yeah.
17:38Abroad is pretty.
17:40I thought you'd be like Carl Pilkington coming abroad, but you're not.
17:43You're actually liking it.
17:45Well, this is nice.
17:46I don't know.
17:46It's the views.
17:47Look at it.
17:48Yeah.
17:48It's really nice.
17:51So, they've actually got some of Jesus' blood in there.
17:56It's the only example, I think, in the world.
17:58I don't know who it is.
17:59Well, now, let's not get bogged down with how they know things.
18:04I mean, it's like barred up.
18:06Well, it would be.
18:08Imagine if you stole Jesus' blood.
18:10What would it be worth?
18:12I mean, I think if you took it to the market and Chippy Norton said,
18:15this is Jesus' blood, they probably wouldn't believe you.
18:17They'd have to tell me the fuck off.
18:21Oh, look.
18:24Now, I like this bit here.
18:25You can see down the canal, look.
18:28That's really pretty.
18:30Wow.
18:33It's so beautifully lit, isn't it?
18:36Oh, look.
18:39They got crocodiles here.
18:46No, they don't have crocodiles here.
18:55The next morning, we set off to the Dutch border
18:58to meet our first high-tech farmer.
19:01And I was very much looking forward to this.
19:05What he's doing is, it's very old-fashioned farming.
19:08Know your farm, know every square inch of your farm.
19:11But use modern technology to get the best out of it.
19:17I got really excited about this streamlining Deadly Squat.
19:21It needs it.
19:23It does.
19:24We're busy fools at the moment.
19:25That's a good way of putting it.
19:27Oh, I know why.
19:29I know why we're busy fools.
19:30Right.
19:31Is it me?
19:32Is it me?
19:32Yeah.
19:33Yeah.
19:33I thought it might be me.
19:34Well, I wanted to try lots of different types of farming.
19:37I've tried them all now.
19:38Really?
19:38You wake up and go, I know, today, pigs.
19:41Yes.
19:41And you know what?
19:42We're going to put them in the most furthest place on the farm,
19:44away from the farm.
19:45Yeah.
19:45That was a mistake.
19:46And they've eaten and killed all the trees.
19:48Oh, no.
19:48What about goats?
19:49Let's get some goats.
19:50Oh, I like the goats.
19:51I know what we'll do with them.
19:53We'll move them around and fence it off in areas
19:55and build that shelter 3,000 times a year.
19:58But they're great animals.
20:00I know what we're going to do now.
20:01I want chickens in that wood over there.
20:02Yeah.
20:03But I don't want to see their huts,
20:04so put them on the other side of the fence.
20:06I did do that.
20:08But we'll only get 50 and have them all in three different pens.
20:11Yeah, we did do that.
20:12That's not a bad idea, that.
20:15I did do that.
20:16Well, they're three different types.
20:19They can sort of still run together.
20:26On the way, we stopped to fill up.
20:29Well, let's have some Super 98.
20:31Super, yeah.
20:32And as the petrol station had a chip van,
20:36I introduced Caleb to Belgium's national dish.
20:40Because the French fry was invented in Belgium.
20:43Was it?
20:43Yeah.
20:44You're never more than six feet from a bag of chips.
20:48What are they?
20:49What are they?
20:50Meatballs.
20:52Meatballs?
20:52Cow.
20:53Cow.
20:54Cow.
20:54Beef.
20:55Beef.
20:56Oh, okay.
20:56Yeah.
20:57One of those into a bag of chips.
21:00And then you've got to put mayonnaise on.
21:02Why?
21:03You've seen Pulp Fiction.
21:05Pulp picture?
21:06What do you mean?
21:07Pulp Fiction.
21:09What do you mean?
21:10Oh, God.
21:13Peace.
21:13Thank you very much.
21:18Thank you very much.
21:20We need balls.
21:21Thank you very much.
21:34Oh, no.
21:35I'm going to pay you.
21:35How much is it?
21:38It's a...
21:42We know your earlobes are completely see-through.
21:53After Wayne Ramsay had given his verdict on the meatballs, we reached our first farm, which straddles the Belgian and
22:02Dutch border.
22:04And there we met its gigantic owner, potato farmer, Jacob van der Born.
22:10Good to meet you.
22:11I told you everyone in Holland was tall.
22:13He's very tall.
22:14I feel very short now.
22:15Yeah.
22:15Even taller than you.
22:19Jacob's farm is about the same size as Diddley's squat.
22:23But judging by the amount of equipment he has in his city-sized sheds...
22:29Jesus.
22:31It's unbelievable.
22:33It was clear he was a lot more successful at turning his acres into cash than we were.
22:42You've got parking spaces in your shed for your tractors.
22:45And look at those trailers. Look at them.
22:48The sprayers there, that's unbelievable.
22:50That's your chemical sprayer and that's your liquid fur.
22:53Actually, it's a twin tank system.
22:56Oh, wow.
22:56So we do 9,000 liters of...
22:59It's two sprayers in one, Caleb.
23:01Oh, wow.
23:01So we can do two sprays in one go.
23:05Look at his little face.
23:05That's unbelievable.
23:06You're going to need a trolley for your cock.
23:09So this is Variable 8.
23:11Tyres, inflating system.
23:13So you can let the tires down and pump them up while you're driving along.
23:16Actually, all my tractors, most of them, also have inflating tires.
23:21Okay, if everything in here is half a million euros, which it probably is, except for the stuff that's more.
23:27It's 10 million quid in the shed.
23:2820 million?
23:29In here.
23:30Oh, yeah.
23:31Oh, yeah.
23:33So, and again, a two-tank system.
23:37I'm going to be boring.
23:39I'm going to talk about this floor.
23:40This floor is designed so that air can come up from underneath it.
23:44So if you store potatoes or whatever you want to store on it, they're ventilated from underneath.
23:49How much does that cost?
23:52I can smell the potatoes now.
23:54This is what our storage room looks like.
23:57Holy shit.
23:59Jesus, thanks Christ.
24:01Should we have a game of football or three?
24:03This shed can hold 6,500 tonnes from the 32,000 tonnes of potatoes that we can store in total.
24:10Fucking hell.
24:12You know we could put all our barns in this barn?
24:15I know.
24:15And my house.
24:16Yeah, and all of Chadlington.
24:19Is that another Fent?
24:20Yeah.
24:22I should explain, we keep seeing fence, lots of fence, huge fence.
24:27They really are the sort of most expensive tractors you can buy.
24:32They're like high-end Mercedes-Benz tractors.
24:35And he's got three in every shed.
24:40All from there.
24:42Because he's adopting the future.
24:47Unsurprisingly, Jacob also has one other piece of equipment.
24:53Add chips for breakfast.
24:56Chips again.
24:57Thank you very much.
24:58After Caleb had finished his second breakfast,
25:03Jacob then explained how he'd made his farm so successful.
25:08When I went in my fields, when I started this, I took over the farm from my father in 2006.
25:14I went to one field and I harvested 30 tonnes on one spot of potatoes.
25:19The other parts, same field, same seeds, same, everything the same.
25:2490 tonnes.
25:25That's a difference of 60 tonnes in one field.
25:29And what was causing that?
25:30And that's what we're going to figure out.
25:32So in 2009 we then started precision farming.
25:35So a lot of people talk about...
25:37All farmers like to know the quality of their soil.
25:42But Jacob takes this job to another level by using specially developed equipment
25:50to give him ultra-precise readings from under the ground.
25:57So everything in the soil that conducts, so organic matter, that's water, that's nutrients.
26:03Every part in the soil that is conducting is giving me the data back.
26:08Do the scan, process that data, and you'll get that map.
26:12Oh, is that a field?
26:14That's one of my fields.
26:15The red spots there are more conducting and therefore bigger in yield.
26:21Once he knows where the weakest and strongest patches of soil are,
26:27Jacob can then programme his tractors to fertilise and seed each part of the field
26:33according to its need.
26:36My tractors I programme to be automatically detecting the soil.
26:42Then they do the job and at the end when my driver drives off the field,
26:46the tractor recognises, are you done?
26:48So you tell the tractor to do different things in different parts of the field,
26:54the same field?
26:56Seeding, fertilising, that's all variable rate.
27:00And when it comes to tackling unwanted weeds,
27:04he doesn't carpet bomb the field with herbicides like we do.
27:09Instead, he uses his high-tech maps to do precision spraying.
27:15We can actually detect those spots and actually only kill those weeds
27:20without touching the rest.
27:22So the spraying, see, it just goes and when it sees a weed...
27:27That's future.
27:28So if you're not spraying the chemicals onto the crop...
27:31So you will have a higher yield.
27:34And then you save in maybe four grand a year.
27:36It's not a herbicide bill.
27:38So you're not wasting money on any, not even a square metre of the field.
27:43This is NASA levels.
27:46And Jacob's methods don't stop at soil mapping and programmable tractors
27:51because he now uses drones to spray the fields.
27:56If you look into the future in 50 years or something,
27:59we will have tractors.
28:01But a lot, a lot of it will also be drones.
28:04And he had to deploy some admirable cunning to get round some very strict EU laws.
28:11There was only one problem, Jeremy.
28:14It's not allowed to fly drones in Europe.
28:16It's not allowed to fly them by computer.
28:19It's not allowed to fly, let them swarm and let them work together.
28:22There is actually, you cannot do anything.
28:25So did you know what we did?
28:27I started in an airport.
28:29What?
28:30Yeah.
28:31I can fly whatever I want.
28:33Well, you just made your farm and airport.
28:35I made my farm and airport.
28:37That is so cool.
28:42Outside, he offered to demonstrate his spraying drone,
28:45which was not what you'd call small.
28:51Jesus.
28:53If you crash landed that on a playground.
28:55Yeah, you'd be.
28:58It would be on the news.
29:00How much spray does it?
29:02So we have a tank of 50 litres.
29:04And how much would this field need?
29:07And that will be one hectare and we can do that in eight minutes?
29:10I normally spray about 125 to 150 litres a hectare.
29:13So you could programme it to come back to the yard.
29:16You just top it up and it goes back out to whatever field you're doing.
29:20I don't want to do that, though.
29:21I know you don't, cos you like driving tractors.
29:23Yeah.
29:24But as a man who's about to embrace the future,
29:26I need to be looking at this ship.
29:29Once its tank had been filled with weed killer,
29:32Jacob punched in all the information it would need
29:35for its spraying flight.
29:37Lots of codes.
29:39How much litres are going to spray?
29:40Which pressure? Which droplet size?
29:49Nice.
29:49Now he's spraying now.
29:50See?
29:52Oh, wow.
29:57So he's now doing the first run.
30:01Stops at the headland.
30:05Makes the turn.
30:07I'm amazed.
30:09And I'm not...
30:10You're not touching anything.
30:14Bloody hell.
30:16I'm just so embarrassed by our drone.
30:21Which is just pathetic.
30:24But this is actually how 80% of the world
30:27is going to spray their crops.
30:29Has to.
30:30Oh, Caleb, that is impressive.
30:33If it's really hot on a summer's day, I can't...
30:35I'm ginger.
30:36I can't stand outside and hold down.
30:37He can sit in the car.
30:38He can sit in the car.
30:40If I apply to have an airport at Diddley Squat,
30:43there will be one objection from him.
30:48So he's done that field in five minutes.
30:51And then he'll come and land where he started.
30:53Automatic landing.
30:57Fucking hell, Caleb.
30:59That is impressive.
31:00But also, think how quiet that is.
31:02My tractor's quiet.
31:04Not as quiet as that.
31:08Reluctant though he was about welcoming him the new world order,
31:13as we drove away, Caleb had to give Jacob his due.
31:18That's serious farming.
31:20Hmm.
31:21Yeah, that man was a serious farmer.
31:23He was a serious farmer.
31:25If he's got 32,000 tonnes of potatoes a year,
31:29at 250 pounds a tonne, that's 8 million pounds of the potatoes every year.
31:35Yeah.
31:36I mean, the kit was just ridiculous.
31:39My mind is still...
31:40There's so much information that come into my mind.
31:44So, having introduced Caleb to some brilliant Dutch farming,
31:48I decided, as we headed towards our overnight halt,
31:52to introduce him to some brilliant Dutch music.
31:59That bass.
32:08I've been driving all night, my hands went on the wheel.
32:11That country feel to end.
32:14It drives my heel.
32:18It's my baby calling cause I need you here.
32:23And it's a half past four and I'm shifting gear.
32:27Come on.
32:28Which is the rain.
32:31Longing gets too much.
32:33Chips and the cable coming in from above.
32:38Don't need to fuck that on.
32:40We've got a thing.
32:42And I suppose...
32:44Red alert.
32:45We've got a wave in the air.
32:49Red alert.
32:53Bonjour, monsieur.
32:54Chamapau, Caleb.
32:56You what?
32:57Bonjour, monsieur.
32:58Chamapau, Caleb.
32:59Ooh!
33:01Do you know I learnt that?
33:07The following morning, we headed over to our next location.
33:12And it was mind-boggling.
33:16Because it's a dairy farm...
33:20..on water...
33:23..slap bang...
33:25..in the middle of Rotterdam.
33:31Hello, hello.
33:33How are you?
33:35How are you?
33:35Minka, nice to meet you.
33:38Good to meet you too.
33:38Nice to meet you too.
33:39Very welcome with our farm.
33:40This is wicked.
33:41It's the only time I've ever seen him smile in a city.
33:45The floating farm is the brainchild of Peter van Wingerden
33:49and his wife, Minka.
33:51And although it's in a city,
33:53don't for one minute think that it's some kind of
33:57industrial battery farm operation.
34:01Sea cows.
34:02Correct, sea cows, yeah.
34:04The cows are free to wander about in the feeding area
34:08or go ashore for a graze.
34:15And as for milking,
34:16they keep their own timetable.
34:20Is that walking in to be milked then?
34:23Yeah.
34:23So the cow knows when it wants to be milked
34:26and just walks in there?
34:27Absolutely.
34:30So this is completely automated.
34:32You can just go home and watch TV and...
34:34Exactly.
34:35And we have many cameras over here as well.
34:37So we measure everything,
34:38temperature, wind speed,
34:40relative humidity,
34:41if the cow is laying down,
34:42if she's standing up,
34:43if she's eating,
34:44if she's inside or outside,
34:46because it's what we call a free-range cow.
34:49So she can size herself.
34:50How many of them?
34:51About 30.
34:5230.
34:54Although the farm covers less than an acre,
34:57its output is staggering.
35:00On the floor below,
35:01the milk is pasteurised
35:03or made into butter.
35:06And then below that...
35:08Cheesery.
35:10An underwater cheesery.
35:14How much concrete have they got in this country?
35:16How does it stay afloat?
35:19Is this floating or are you mounted to the...
35:21No, it's completely floating.
35:22It's floating?
35:23It's completely floating.
35:24So we are now three metres below the sea level.
35:27Which keeps it cool.
35:28Temperature is completely controlled.
35:32But even more impressive is the way this farm and the city work together.
35:37When Peter goes out delivering his dairy produce,
35:40he comes back with brewer's grain from the breweries
35:44and yesterday's unsold stale bread from the shops,
35:48none of which costs him a penny.
35:50And then that is made into food for the cows.
35:57Look at that.
35:59And this is, what, a day old.
36:01Two days.
36:02We're wasting so much bread,
36:04and now it comes to us.
36:05Because the amount of waste in the city,
36:07when you think...
36:08It's unbelievable.
36:08Organic waste.
36:09Unbelievable.
36:11As for the grass that's used to feed the cows,
36:14that comes from a very clever source.
36:17So when they cut the grass in the football stadium,
36:20you take the clippings.
36:22Yeah, from the main pitch.
36:24The best grass you can get.
36:26They put seaweed on it and everything, don't they?
36:27They make it look green,
36:28so therefore the nutrients out of that grass must be insane.
36:31Yeah, it's really good.
36:32Well, because you're here,
36:33you can just go and grab it all each morning and...
36:35Exactly.
36:36So this is the circularity of the city.
36:39And this circular efficiency goes even further,
36:43because Peter has a robot that collects all the manure,
36:47and that manure is then used to make drinking water for the cows.
36:54We take seawater out.
36:56So we've got a desalination plant.
36:57This is our desalination.
36:59And it goes to this side of the membrane,
37:01and we heat up the other side of the membrane by using the cow dung.
37:06So if you put cow dung in this bin, we put seawater in here.
37:11It heats up to 35, 40 degrees.
37:13You can feel it over here.
37:15So we have...
37:16So they're drinking seawater?
37:18Yeah, correct.
37:19And you use their manure to desalinate it?
37:23Correct.
37:25We're using and reusing everything.
37:27Organic waste from the city to turn it into proteins again.
37:30So, yes, this is the future of farming.
37:36Fuck.
37:38This is just... My mind is in overdrive right now.
37:42It's about to blow up.
37:48Outside, sitting by the solar panels that power the whole operation,
37:54Peter then showed us the building materials he was also making out of the manure.
38:01So what do you do with this?
38:03So this could be an inside wall.
38:05Insulation.
38:06Insulation, yeah.
38:07So you could have your house insulated.
38:08Yeah.
38:09Your house would be literally full of shit.
38:11Correct.
38:12People say mine is anyway.
38:13It is.
38:15I'm rarely amazed.
38:17Lamborghini Revuelta amazed me.
38:19And that, that's been it for the last year or so.
38:22And that's taking virtually nothing from the environment.
38:25Exactly.
38:25And it's giving more back.
38:27It's almost zero footprint.
38:29It's amazing.
38:30We actually want to reduce food losses.
38:33Because food losses is dramatic in the world.
38:36We're losing so much food.
38:38About 30% of all food produced is lost in the world.
38:41While still one billion people doesn't have food.
38:44So we need to change this.
38:45And this can only be done if you produce local.
38:48So what we've, what we've established is diddly squat is in the wrong location because it's in the countryside.
38:55It's not floating.
38:57It's where there are fields.
38:59It's where there are fields.
38:59That's wrong.
39:05Obviously, I couldn't relocate diddly squat to the river Thames.
39:10But spending time with these ingenious Dutch farmers had convinced me that if we're going to survive, we absolutely had
39:21to modernize.
39:29It's the remote control toy you always wanted.
39:32Oh my God.
39:34What is that?
39:36We have a problem.
39:37Are we going to stay?
39:39I don't know.
39:43I don't know.
39:43It's been a long time.
39:44I know.
39:44I'm back mate.
39:45You're back.
39:46That's a bit of a mess.