Can Form 8865 Farming 2024

Music. It might look like we're inside a spaceship, but this is actually a farm. The crops here have grown mostly by machines, with the help of just a few humans. Like this woman. Her life offers an early peek at a new kind of farming. It's a promising twist to an ancient career, but only if the robots don't replace them altogether. As technology replaces old jobs, it's also creating new ones. I'm Aki Ito, and I'm here to show you the jobs of the future. My name is Katie Morris, and I'm a vertical farmer. Katie works for a three-year-old startup called Bowery. Its farm is here in this industrial park in New Jersey. It's the last place you'd expect to find any sign of life. "We take extra precautions to make sure we're not bringing any contaminants into the farm, so we're gonna wear hair nets, and then this is just gonna cover all your street clothes," Katy explains. Katy wears a clean uniform every day, and visitors like me are handed a non-negotiable jumpsuit. "Alright, step inside and you'll see a cross between a factory and a lab." Trays of produce are vertically stacked to save space, and each of them is given just the right amount of light, water, and nutrients at the optimal temperature and humidity. It's an incredible level of precision, which is why Katy can grow more faster with less water and no pesticides. It's also what lets her grow things that taste like nothing you've ever had before. "The majority of this facility is automated. The data is collected by sensors, and a computer controls growing conditions for the crops. For the things that the machines can't do yet, Katie and her fellow human farmers fill in. And even those tasks are dictated...