Automatic Farms

Alexander Pedro
10/3/17
Automatic Farms



In a farm in the United Kingdom there is a farm completely run by robots. Researchers from Harper Adams university in Edgmond, UK harvested about 5 tons of barley from the first robotically tended farm. The entire process of seeding, fertilizing, collecting samples, and harvesting is completely automated by drones and self driving cars.

A similar project is being developed in Japan where they are building an indoor lettuce farm. This farm is completely autonomous an computerized. This farm in expected to open at the end of this year and it is predicting to lower the price or lettuce and make it healthier for the environment. The advantages of the types of automated and vertical farms is the ability to recycle.98% percent of the water used to feed the plants is recycled. Also the factory wont have to spray pesticides because they are indoors.