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1 I'm so excited.

I know, you've been bouncing around like a three-year-old

for a month over this.

- Have you ever been? - No!

Oh, it's so good.

Did you really have your hair cut this morning?

Seven o'clock this morning.

To go to an agricultural machinery show?

Well not necessarily, I was getting my hair cut anyway.

It was falling every six weeks.

But then I thought, if I'm going,

I may as well book it on the Wednesday in the morning,

have my hair done and go.

I've been to probably fifty motor shows in my life,

in Detroit, Geneva, Tokyo,

London, Birmingham,

- and I've never had my hair cut to go. - That's why you always look scruffy.

- Lisa's gonna be furious. - Why?

Oh, 'cause you've got this.

I've nicked her car. She said last night: "I've got to go to London tomorrow."

- What's she driving then? - So I said:

"Are you going on the train or driving?" She said: "Well, no, I'm gonna drive."

And I was drawing breath to say: "I need your car to go to Birmingham."

You didn't have it in you to say, did you?

- I just went, "Oh, OK." - And then you took her car!

Well, we left before she was up.

So she's going to come out...

Every January for a few days,

fields right across the country have no farmers in them.

Because this is the time of year when they go to Birmingham for LAMMA,

the annual farm machinery show.

Look at the amount of pickup trucks going to the NEC.

Now this is a proper... Look at this chap here, he's got it all worked out.

No styling happened with that roof on his pickup.

No, but it's designed to fit in a lot of dead sheep.

Exactly.

Once inside the vast halls,

Kaleb became as excited as I used to be at motor shows...

when I was eight.

Oh, look at the CR9!

That's where they had the CR11 last year.

This is a smaller version of it.

I can't work out why they've got... This as a CR9-90.

I know, it says that.

It's nice, isn't it? I like the colour. Has it got black rims?

- Yes. - Oh, look at that!

And it's got the blue round the outside.

That's cool that, hey? That's me. That's a bit of me that.

- What is? - That.

Well, look at it: blinged up.

I, meanwhile,

felt like my sister used to feel at motor shows when she was eight:

completely baffled by everything.

What's that?

This is a great start.

A mower.

Nearly. It's a mulcher.

- Oh, is it? - Yeah.

What's that?

Erm... Muck spreader?

No. That's a straw blower.

What's that there?

Pile driver.

Log splitter.

What's that one over there then?

It's a tedder.

- It's a what? - It's a tedder.

So you mow your grass, you come through with a tedder, flips it back over.

- You see what I mean? - No.

Kaleb, how are you doing?

- Are you well? - Yeah, not bad, mate.

- Where is the old, er... - There he is.

Ah, you old sort! How're you diddling?

- Are you all right? - Yeah, not too bad.

Kaleb, just endlessly stopped by big-boned men with stout shoes on.

Pauses only to tell me things that make no sense.

Later in the morning, I lost my guide...

It's nice to be able to give people that opportunity...

...because he'd been booked to take part in some sort of

rural TED talk.

Hello, everybody. I'm Kaleb.

Probably best known as I'm on "Clarkson's Farm".

But of course I've got my own theatre tour that I did beginning of the year.

Erm, also got three books out.

As he humbly introduced himself...

Stuff on social media...

...I walked around in a state of complete confusion.

What is that?

And what's that?

And that?

Oh look, a lunar rover.

See, this is what it's like when you walk round without Kaleb.

It's like being in a... I don't know,

a market in Cambodia where you just look at all the things and think:

"Oh, is that a fish? Is it a plant? I dunno."

Eventually, I arrived in a hall full of futuristic high-tech equipment,

where I expected to be even more baffled.

But, once the salesman got his teeth into me,

I became quite intrigued.

Have you ever seen something like this before?

No. Er, what is it?

It's a seeding and weeding machine.

It's an autonomous vehicle, electrical driven. It's, er, powered...

- I'm guessing solar. - Powered by the solar, yeah.

In Denmark?

- Solar. - Solar?

What, on June 7th in 1981 there was a sunny day there.

Exactly!

But what if there's no sunshine? Which does happen.

It does actually run twenty-four seven.

It has a battery pack in the back, so it's running in the night too.

So then, how's the weeding and seeding...

Basically, this is a seeding machine,

it's a weeding machine, and it's all done by GPS.

God, how accurate is it?

Accuracy between 8 and 10 millimetres.

Oh my word. What's the phallus?

This one? That's the GSM antenna.

- So what's that then? - That's the GPS antenna.

And the last one here, that is the rain gauge.

So if it suddenly starts raining,

let's say one millimetre of rain, it will just stop the operation

to avoid damaging the crops.

And then you of course get a message back saying, OK, it's stopped due to the rain.

- Oh, you can talk to it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So you're looking on your phone or your tablet, on an app,

then you can see, you know, if it's running out of seed it will stop

and send a message back: "Hey, Jeremy, I'm out of seeds."

So my recommendation is to choose the high-value crop.

It could be onion or beets or red beets or...

Onions? Are onions high value?

I would say so, yeah.

If you filled those up with onions...

Yeah.

How big a field would it do before it ran out?

You can seed at least five hectares, that's no problem.

So that's what? Twelve acres.

We're doing five hectares a day.

That's brilliant.

Meanwhile, over in the TED talk,

Kaleb was in full life-coach-guru mode.

Dreams don't work unless you do. I take that with me all the time.

And no matter what you do, if you keep working hard, and again,

dreams don't work, unless you can make that happen.

So I think actually believe in yourself

and actually just go "Yeah, you are good enough" straight away from the get-go.

Don't ever believe that you're not.

And if you're not, it's fine,

you're just not meant to be doing that certain thing.

Back in the future, having been bewitched by a machine

that could plant crops without the need for a tractor,

I'd now found a tractor that had no need for a driver.

So this is probably the first in the market

that is a fully autonomous tractor

that we can let go night and day unattended.

- So it just runs? - Runs night and day.

Set it off, go to bed, get up in the morning, job done.

You set it up to... drill?

Yeah, cultivate.

Standard rear linkage.

So you've got all your existing implements on.

Standard hydraulics. Front linkage.

Just everything that you need.

How fast will this one go along?

Is it just like a normal tractor speed?

Yeah, so nought to 12.6 km/h.

OK. So fast enough to do normal farming.

Absolutely, normal work, yeah.

- So it can do normal farming. - Yeah.

Without Kaleb.

A tractor with no aggravation. Imagine that.

Oh, no Kaleb?

No Kaleb. Just imagine.

My mind was now racing with all sorts of new ideas.

Which, the following day, I couldn't wait to share with Charlie.

Farming

does what it does year in and year out.

Yeah.

We are reaching a point

where that's just not working anymore.

The climate's changing

and we have a truly idiotic government.

So, it's like beating your head against a wall.

Idiotic government and it never stops raining.

There's no point doing what you do year in, year out.

The definition of idiocy

is doing the same thing over and over again

- and expecting a different result. - Yep.

We've now reached a point where farmers, I think, have to say:

"We have to do this differently."

- Yeah. - So...

There it is.

- An Agbot? - Yeah.

You're gonna have a driverless tractor?

I'm not a very good tractor driver,

I've come to understand that after five years.

I can't plough, I can't cultivate, I can't drill,

I can't attach anything to it still.

Once that thing's plodding around

doing cultivating or drilling or whatever job you've given it...

Yeah.

You can be getting on with something else.

And it doesn't make mistakes. Unlike me.

Erm... OK.

You have to mark out obstacles in the field as well, presumably?

We haven't really got any obstacles in our fields.

We don't have trees. We've got one telegraph pole that I hit in...

- There are five in that field. - Yeah.

Will it lift everything?

It looks quite compact.

Well, they must have written what its lifting capabilities are.

Did you not ask?

No. I just thought it looked really cool.

And, that brings me onto...

seeding and weeding robot.

But that's gonna do the planting?

Ah, not of the onions and beetroot.

We don't grow onions and beetroot.

- We're growing onions and beetroot? - Yeah.

Why onions and beetroot?

'Cause that's what this can do.

So, the tech does it, so we're growing it?

I wanna see if it does it.

While Charlie went off to source this new kit,

I decided to go to the Netherlands

to look at the high-tech farming that they're doing over there.

At first, this felt odd,

because normally, when I'm on a road trip with a film crew,

I'm accompanied by Hammond and May,

who are also seasoned globetrotters.

This time, though, my companion wasn't.

Is the air like the same here, in France?

Is it different? Do you smell different, like...

Do you know what I mean? Like, is it dense? Is it...

Is it different?

No, it's not. It's the same.

It's gonna feel weird leaving England.

- We haven't left it yet. - I know, but...

You're still in Oxfordshire I think, actually.

- I know, I think we are! - You haven't even left Oxfordshire yet!

I know, but that's what's going through my mind!

You know when we go over there it's an hour ahead?

- Is it? - Mm-hmm.

How?

- What? - How?

It just is.

But how?

Apart from Portugal: France, Spain, Italy, Germany,

all of Europe, really, is an hour ahead of us.

Will I get jet lag?

No, it's only like when the clocks go back and forwards in England.

Oh, OK.

As "Ranulph Fiennes" and I headed towards the Channel Tunnel,

I explained the thinking behind our fact-finding mission.

So, when I was at LAMMA, I started to realise

we've got to get more tech.

- We've gotta get more modern. - The future.

Well...

Here's the deal.

I once did that programme Who Do You Think You Are?,

where you trace your family tree.

Mm-hmm.

And I discovered that I'm from this family called the Kilners, OK?

My great-grandmother was a Kilner.

And they had this huge company that made glass, huge, massive.

They had two factories, each of which covered an area of 17 acres.

Holy moly.

- They're big. - Wow.

If you bought anything in the world that was in glass,

so a Gin Sling in Singapore, a bottle of pills in Texas,

it almost certainly came in a bottle made by the Kilners.

- Yeah. - They were massive.

- Anyway, they didn't modernise. - Right.

And all these little glassmakers were coming along

- using modern technology. - Yeah.

And before you knew it, Kilners had gone 'cause they didn't...

- They were stuck in the past. - They were stuck in the past.

And they were wiped out. And they were wiped out really quickly.

So I think Diddly Squat's got to get a bit more techy.

- Yeah. - That's what I'm saying.

And in Holland,

they're very fastidious in their farming, as far as I can work out.

I was reading the other day they're the most efficient farmers in Europe.

- Really? - The Danes and the Dutch, yeah.

Twelve miles.

I've got butterflies.

- Have you? - Yeah.

What number plate's that then?

- Dutch. - Is it?

"NL"? What does it mean?

Netherlands.

"P".

Portugal.

Denmark, "D".

Germany.

- For a "D"? - Deutschland.

You'd have thought they'd put a "G" on it for Germany, wouldn't you?

You'd have thought they'd put a "G" on it for Germany.

Yeah, but they call themselves Deutschland, remember.

Why?

- That's what they named themselves. - 'Cause everyone hates Germany.

Leaving England!

Have you seen my passport? Look how shiny it is.

- Shinier than mine probably. - Look!

Oh, blue! You've got a blue one!

Let's have a look at your passport.

Yeah, you look like a crim.

You're middle name's Wayne, I didn't know that. How ridiculous.

- What do you mean "how ridiculous"? - Well, it's just funny.

Once we cleared passport control,

Wayne started asking me about the actual tunnel.

How deep is it?

Erm...

Well, it's un... it's not...

It's underneath the bottom of the sea, if that makes sense?

So it's quite deep.

I mean, psychologically you know you're under the sea,

but it's only the same as being in a tunnel.

Well, you've never been in a tunnel, have you? No.

No.

Oh God.

How many trains are down there?

I don't know.

- How many carriages does it pull? - Don't know.

- How many cars does it fit on a carriage? - I don't know.

When was the Titanic? When was the Titanic?

1912.

OK, so this was after... This was obviously...

- Well after. - Yeah.

This was 1988.

- Holy shit, how wide is it? - The train's quite wide.

And here we go, we are mounting the train.

It's weird to think this is the first train you've ever been on.

And I bet not many people

are able to say that the first train they ever went on was a Eurostar train.

You can get out, stretch your legs.

I'm gonna stay here.

- What? You don't wanna get out? - No.

- You do look nervous. - I fucking am!

How do they put oxygen down there?

- What do you mean? - Well...

How do they get oxygen flowing through the...

It just goes... It's not sealed at the end.

If there's two holes at either end, it's full of air.

I know, but surely you've gotta push the air down there?

- No. - Air rises up.

No, it doesn't. Air goes in any direction it wants.

And if you go so far under the sea, air doesn't travel through water.

You're not. No, but either end isn't under the water.

We're going into a hole

which is above the ground,

above the waterline...

Let's say this is the sea, yes?

- The hole starts here... - Yeah.

And here, and goes down like this. The air is only gonna fill here.

There's air in the tunnel, Kaleb. I promise there's air.

You don't need scuba outfits to cope.

There will be air.

Ooh, we're moving.

Here we go.

Here we are.

Luckily, the tunnel didn't spring a leak

or run out of oxygen on that particular journey.

And half an hour after setting off, we were in France.

You're abroad!

I'm out of England.

It feels weird, dunnit?

- Well... - Just think five years ago, though.

I know, five years, you'd not been out of Chipping Norton. Now look at you.

You're like James Bond.

We crossed the border into Belgium...

and eventually reached our overnight halt in the city of Bruges.

Which I was keen for Kaleb to see.

Oh wow.

This is what abroad is like.

- Everywhere is like that. - That's very pretty, isn't it?

Yeah. Abroad is pretty.

I thought you'd be like Karl Pilkington coming abroad,

but you're not, you're actually liking it.

Well, it's nice. I dunno, it's the views, look at it.

Yeah, it's really nice.

So they've actually got some of Jesus's blood in there.

- The actual blood? - It's the only example in the world.

How do they know it's his?

Well, now, let's not get bogged down with how they know things.

I mean, it's like barred up.

Well, it would be.

Imagine if you stole Jesus's blood.

What'd it be worth?

I think if you took it to the market at Chipping Norton and said

"This is Jesus's blood", they probably wouldn't believe you.

They'd tell me to fuck off!

Oh look!

Now I like this bit here where you can see down the canal, look.

That's really pretty.

Wow.

It's so beautifully lit, isn't it?

Oh, look.

Have they got crocodiles here?

- What? - No, they don't have crocodiles here.

The next morning,

we set off to the Dutch border to meet our first high-tech farmer.

And I was very much looking forward to this.

What he's doing is very old-fashioned farming:

know your farm, know every square inch of your farm,

but use modern technology to get the best out of it.

I've got really excited about this streamlining Diddly Squat.

- It needs it. - It does.

We're busy fools at the moment.

That's a good way of putting it.

Oh I know why. I know why we're busy fools.

- Why? 'Cause of me? Is it me? - Yeah.

Yeah, I thought it might be me.

Well, I wanted to try lots of different types of farming...

Agreed, but you wake up and go:

- "I know, today... pigs." - Yes.

"And we're gonna put 'em in the furthest place on the farm away from the farm."

Yeah, that was a mistake. And they've eaten and killed all the trees.

"Oh no, what about goats? Let's get some goats.

- Yeah. Now, where are we gonna put them?" - Well, I like the goats.

"We'll move them around and fence it off an area

to build that shelter three thousand times a year."

But, they're great animals.

"I know what we're gonna do now. I want chickens in that wood over there,

but I don't wanna see their huts so put them on the other side of the fence."

Yeah, I did do that.

"But we'll only get fifty and have them all in three different pens."

- Yeah, we did do that. - "That's not a bad idea that."

I did do that!

Well, they're three different types.

They can still run together.

On the way, we stopped to fill up.

Well, let's have some Super 98.

Super, yeah?

And as the petrol station had a chip van,

I introduced Kaleb to Belgium's national dish.

'Cause the French fry was invented in Belgium.

Was it?

Yeah. You're never more than six feet from a bag of chips.

Hi, mate. What are they?

- Meatballs. - Meatballs?

- Cow. - Cow?

- Beef. - Beef.

Oh, OK, yeah.

I'll have one of those and a bag of chips.

- And then you've gotta put mayonnaise on. - Why?

You've seen Pulp Fiction.

"Pop picture"? What do you mean?

Pulp Fiction.

- What do you mean? - Oh God.

Thank you very much.

Meatballs.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Oh no, I've gotta pay you. How much is it?

It's, er...

You know your earlobes are completely see-through?

After "Wayne Ramsay" had given his verdict on the meatballs,

we reached our first farm,

which straddles the Belgian and Dutch border.

And there, we met its gigantic owner,

potato farmer Jacob van den Borne.

I told you everyone in Holland was tall.

He's very tall. I feel very short now.

- Yeah. - Even taller than you!

Jacob's farm is about the same size as Diddly Squat,

but judging by the amount of equipment he has in his city-sized sheds...

Jesus!

It's unbelievable.

...it was clear he was more successful at turning his acres into cash

than we were.

You've got parking spaces in your sheds for your tractors!

And look at those trailers. Look at them.

The sprayers, though, that's unbelievable.

That's your chemical sprayer and that's your liquid fert.

Er, actually, it's a twin-tank system.

Oh wow, look at that.

- So we do nine thousand litres of... - Unbelievable!

It's two sprayers in one, Kaleb!

Oh wow!

- So we can do two sprays... - Look at his little face!

- ...in one go. - That's unbelievable!

You're going to need a trolley for your cock.

So this is variable rate. The tyres' inflating system.

So you can let the tyres down

and pump them up while you're driving along?

Actually all my tractors, most of them,

also have inflating tyres.

OK, if everything in here is half a million euros,

which it probably is, except for the stuff that's more...

There's ten million quid in this shed?

- Twenty million euros? - In here?

- Well, yeah. - Oh yeah.

And again, a two-tank system.

And look, I'm gonna be boring, I'm gonna talk about this floor.

This floor is designed so that air can come up from underneath it.

So if you store potatoes or whatever you want to store on it,

they're ventilated from underneath.

How much does that cost?

I can smell the potatoes now.

This is what our storage room looks like.

Holy shit!

Jesus H Christ.

Shall we have a game of football, or three?

This shed can hold 6,500 tonnes

from the 32,000 tonnes of potatoes that we can store in total.

Fucking hell.

You know we could put all our barns in this barn.

- I know. - And my house.

Yeah, and all of Chadlington.

- So, another Fendt? - Yeah.

I should explain. We keep seeing Fendts, lots of Fendts, huge Fendts.

They really are the sort of most expensive tractors you can buy.

They're like high-end Mercedes-Benz tractors.

And he's got three in every shed!

All from that.

'Cause he's adopting the future.

Unsurprisingly, Jacob also has one other piece of equipment.

I had chips for breakfast.

Chips again. Oh, thank you very much.

After Kaleb had finished his second breakfast,

Jacob then explained how he'd made his farm so successful.

And when I went in my fields, when I started this,

I took over the farm from my father in 2006,

I went to one field

and I harvested 30 tonnes on one spot of potatoes.

The other part, same field, same seed, everything the same,

90 tonnes.

That's a difference of 60 tonnes in one field.

And what was causing that?

And that's what we're gonna figure out.

So in 2009 we then started precision farming.

A lot of people talk about...

All farmers like to know the quality of their soil.

But Jacob takes this job to another level

by using specially developed equipment

to give him ultra-precise readings

from under the ground.

So everything in the soil that conducts,

so organic matter, that's water, that's nutrients,

every part in the soil that is conducting

is giving me the data back.

Do the scan, process that data and you'll get that map.

- Oh, is that a field? - That's one of my fields.

The red spots there are more conducting

and therefore bigger in yield.

Once he knows where the weakest and strongest patches of soil are,

Jacob can then programme his tractors

to fertilise and seed each part of the field

according to its need.

My tractors I programme to be

automatically detecting soil.

Then, they do the job, and at the end, when my driver drives off the field,

the tractor recognises, "Oh, you're done!"

So you tell the tractor to do different things

in different parts of the field, the same field?

Yeah.

Seeding, fertilising, that's all "variable rate".

And when it comes to tackling unwanted weeds,

he doesn't carpet bomb the field with herbicides like we do.

Instead, he uses his high-tech maps

to do precision spraying.

We can actually detect those spots

and actually only kill those weeds

without touching the rest.

So they're spraying, see, it just goes and when it sees a weed, "choo".

That's future.

So if you're not spraying the chemicals onto the crop...

So you will have a higher yield.

And then you're saving maybe four grand a year on our herbicide bills.

So you're not wasting money on any...

not even a square metre of the field.

- This is NASA levels. - Reduce that.

And Jacob's methods don't stop at soil mapping and programmable tractors

because he now uses drones to spray the fields.

If you look into the future in fifty years or something,

we will have tractors,

but a lot of it will also be drones.

And he had to deploy some admirable cunning

to get round some very strict EU laws.

There was only one problem, Jeremy.

It's not allowed to fly drones in Europe.

It's not allowed to fly them by computer,

it's not allowed to let them swarm and let them work together.

There is actually... You cannot do anything.

So did you know what we did?

I started an airport.

- What? - Yeah.

I can fly whatever I want as high as I want.

What, you've made your farm an airport?

I made my farm an airport!

That is so cool.

Outside, he offered to demonstrate his spraying drone,

which was not what you'd call small.

Jesus!

If you crash-landed that on a playground...

Yeah, you'd be...

It would be on the news.

How much spray does it...?

So we have a tank of 50 litres.

And how much would this field need?

And that will be one hectare and we can do that in 8 minutes.

I normally spray about 125 to 150 litres a hectare.

So you could programme it to come back to the yard,

you just top it up and it goes back out to whatever field you're doing.

I don't wanna do that, though.

I know, 'cause you like driving tractors.

Yeah.

But as a man who's about to embrace the future,

I need to be looking at this shit.

Once its tank had been filled with weed killer,

Jacob punched in all the information it would need for its spraying flight.

Lots of codes.

How many litres are we gonna spray,

which pressure, which droplet size.

And it's spraying now. See?

Oh wow!

So it's now doing the first run.

Stops at the headland.

Makes the turn.

- I'm amazed. - And I'm not...

- It's doing it by itself. - You're not touching anything.

Bloody hell!

I'm just so embarrassed by our drone.

Which is just pathetic.

This is actually how 80% percent of the world

- is going to spray their crops. - Has to.

Come on, Kaleb, that is impressive.

And if it's really hot on a summer's day, look, I can't...

I'm ginger, I can't stand outside and hold that.

- I need to be in a cab. - You can sit in your car.

- You can sit in the car. - Sit in your car.

If I apply to have an airport at Diddly Squat,

there will be one objection from him.

So he's done that field in five minutes.

And then he'll come and land where he started?

Automatic landing.

Fucking hell, Kaleb, that is impressive.

- And also, think how quiet that is. - My tractor's quiet.

Not as quiet as that.

Reluctant though he was about welcoming in the new world order,

as we drove away, Kaleb had to give Jacob his due.

- That's serious farming. - Mmm.

- Yeah, that man was a serious farmer. - He was a serious farmer.

If he's got 32,000 tonnes of potatoes a year

at £250 a tonne,

that's £8 million worth of potatoes every year.

Yeah.

- I mean, the kit was just ridiculous. - Yeah.

There's so much information that's gone into my mind.

So, having introduced Kaleb to some brilliant Dutch farming,

I decided, as we headed towards our overnight halt,

to introduce him to some brilliant Dutch music.

Listen to that bass.

♪ I've been driving all night My hands wet on the wheel ♪

It's got that country feel to it.

♪ There's a voice in my head ♪

♪ That drives my heel ♪

♪ It's my baby calling says "I need you here" ♪

♪ And it's a half past four and I'm shifting gear ♪

Come on!

♪ When she is lonely And the longing gets too much ♪

♪ She sends a cable Coming in from above ♪

♪ Don't need no phone at all ♪

- ♪ We've got a thing and that's called ♪ - ♪ Radar love ♪

♪ We've got a wave in the air Radar love ♪

Bonjour, monsieur. Je m'appelle Kaleb.

You what?

Bonjour, monsieur. Je m'appelle Kaleb.

- Ooh! - Do you know I learnt that?

The following morning, we headed over to our next location.

And it was mind-boggling.

Because it's a dairy farm.

On water.

Slap bang in the middle of Rotterdam.

- Hello, hello. - How are you?

- How are you? - Welcome. Peter. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you. - Good to meet you too.

Nice to meet you. Very welcome at our farm.

This is wicked!

It's the only time I've ever seen him smile in a city.

The floating farm is the brainchild of Peter van Wingerden

and his wife Minke.

And although it's in a city, don't for one minute think

that it's some kind of industrial battery-farm operation.

Sea cows?

Yeah, correct, sea cows, yeah.

The cows are free to wander about in the feeding area

or go ashore for a graze.

And as for milking, they keep their own timetable.

- Is that walking in to be milked then? - Yeah.

So the cow knows when it wants to be milked and just walks in there?

Absolutely.

So this is completely automated? You can just go home and watch TV?

Exactly. And we have many cameras over here as well,

so we measure everything: temperature, wind speed, relative humidity,

if the cow's lying down, if she's standing up,

if she's eating, if she's inside or outside,

because it's what we call a free-range cow, so she can decide herself.

- How many are there? - About thirty.

- Thirty? - Yeah.

Although the farm covers less than an acre,

its output is staggering.

On the floor below, the milk is pasteurised or made into butter.

And then below that...

A cheesery?

An underwater cheesery.

How much concrete have they got in this country?

How does it stay afloat?

Is this floating or are you mounted to the...?

No, it's completely floating.

- It's floating? - It's completely floating.

So we are now three metres below the sea level.

Which keeps it cool?

The temperature's completely controlled.

But even more impressive

is the way this farm and the city work together.

When Peter goes out delivering his dairy produce,

he comes back with brewer's grain from the breweries

and yesterday's unsold stale bread from the shops.

None of which costs him a penny.

And then that is made into food for the cows.

Look at that.

And this is what? A day old? Two days?

We were wasting so much bread, and now it comes to us.

'Cause the amount of waste in a city, when you think.

- It's unbelievable. - Organic waste.

As for the grass that's used to feed the cows,

that comes from a very clever source.

So when they cut the grass in the football stadium,

you take the clippings?

Yeah, from the main pitch.

The best grass you can get.

They put seaweed on it and everything to make it look green,

so therefore the nutrients of that grass must be insane.

- Yeah, it's really good. - Wow.

And 'cause you're here you can just go and grab it all each morning and...

Exactly.

So this is the circularity of the city.

And this circular efficiency goes even further,

because Peter has a robot that collects all the manure

and that manure is then used to make drinking water for the cows.

We take sea water out as well.

- Oh, you've got a desalination plant? - This is our desalination.

And it goes to this side of the membrane.

And we heat up the other side of the membrane

by using the cow dung.

So if you put cow dung in this bin,

we put sea water in here,

it heats up to 35, 40 degrees, you can feel it over here.

- So we have... - So they're drinking sea water?

Yeah, correct.

And you use their manure to desalinate it?

Correct.

We're using and reusing everything.

Organic waste from the city to turn it into proteins again.

So, yes, this is the future of farming.

Fuck! Fuck!

This is just f... My mind is in overdrive right now.

It's about to blow up.

Outside, sitting by the solar panels that power the whole operation,

Peter then showed us the building materials

he was also making out of the manure.

So what do you do with this?

So this could be an inside wall.

- Insulation? - Insulation, yeah.

- So you could have your house insulated. - Yeah.

Your house would be literally full of shit.

Correct.

- People say mine is anyway. - It is.

I'm rarely amazed.

Lamborghini Revuelto amazed me

and that's been it for the last year or so.

And that's taking virtually nothing from the environment.

- Exactly. - And it's giving more back!

It's an almost zero footprint.

It's amazing.

We actually want to reduce food losses.

Because food losses is dramatic in the world.

We're losing so much food.

About 30% of all food produced is lost in the world,

while still one billion people doesn't have food.

So we need to change this.

And this can only be done if you produce local.

So what we've established

is Diddly Squat is in the wrong location because it's in the countryside.

And it's not floating.

It's where there are fields that's wrong!

Obviously, I couldn't relocate Diddly Squat to the River Thames.

But spending time with these ingenious Dutch farmers

had convinced me that if we're going to survive,

we absolutely had to modernise.

This is the remote-controlled toy you always wanted.

Oh my God!

What is that?

We have a problem.

Are they gonna stay?

I don't know.

- Been a long time! I'm back, mate! - Alan!

- You're back! - That's a bit of a man hug, ain't it!