"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

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.

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.

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

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

05:52 um excuse you that was perfectly good pasta

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

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

Awesome, clean, editing 😍

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!

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

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.

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

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

I get an Interstellar vibe, nicely done!

I love videos like this. very informative

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

3:46 That's my Minecraft sugarcane farm

Innovation is awesome

Outstanding productions....just found your channel!

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

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!

sir can I know the cost of soil less farming, what are the foods to be grown in that can anyone tell me about that

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

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

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

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

Nice report...thanks for sharing!

Hello how do I get into contact with the vertical farm info as well as the otormans

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

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

Source for the calories graph they showed?

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

1:13 What song were they singing?

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.

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

What was that orange salad dressing they used??

High quality Content front Quartz as always.

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

Amazing looking video as always ;)

3:44 What kinda farm is this? Where are all the GPU's

7:13 Such bliss...

where do I sign up?

This video produced a lot of good proverbs.

Excuse me, where can I get the datasheet of the chart showing estimated daily calories consumed in this videos?

Good quality video right here.

i like the egg sorting thing

Wonderful. Thanks

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

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

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

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.

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I want an episode just about that indoor farm

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.

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

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!!

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.

That ark part has me

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

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.😀

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

building up is best for indoor farming

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)

Great video and good luck to these farmers, I hope big Agra doesn’t try to destroy their optimism and innovation. The future is about food more than the latest iPhones I think.

The Ortman family are awesome.

this is the real content .

Does plowing the land not release carbon?

Can I get the references please!!

So many abandoned malls, parking Garages, Manufacturing plants

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

Good job

How this series is not going viral is beyond me!

What about Rudolf Steiner?

I'm good to my soil : ) Both in and outside of the moat.

I’m watching this because of online school lol

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 do we know which is from fetus or original crop

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".

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

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.

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

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.

I bet those kids are having an amazing childhood

6:55 There was a fly on his hat.

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.

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.

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

Interstellar called it!

i have to watch this for school 😭😭😭

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

The graph at 5:31 really doesn't provide valuable information... daily calories consumed in 8000 BC and prior

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

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

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.