1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,162 WWW.MY-SUBS.CO 1 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:10,600 I'm so excited. 2 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,680 I know, you've been bouncing around like a three-year-old 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,840 for a month over this. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,136 - Have you ever been? - No! 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,160 Oh, it's so good. 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,040 Did you really have your hair cut this morning? 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,600 Seven o'clock this morning. 8 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,920 To go to an agricultural machinery show? 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:30,816 Well not necessarily, I was getting my hair cut anyway. 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,560 It was falling every six weeks. 11 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,040 But then I thought, if I'm going, 12 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:36,600 I may as well book it on the Wednesday in the morning, 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,840 have my hair done and go. 14 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,040 I've been to probably fifty motor shows in my life, 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,600 in Detroit, Geneva, Tokyo, 16 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,560 London, Birmingham, 17 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,520 - and I've never had my hair cut to go. - That's why you always look scruffy. 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,880 - Lisa's gonna be furious. - Why? 19 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,480 Oh, 'cause you've got this. 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,120 I've nicked her car. She said last night: "I've got to go to London tomorrow." 21 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:02,856 - What's she driving then? - So I said: 22 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,576 "Are you going on the train or driving?" She said: "Well, no, I'm gonna drive." 23 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,600 And I was drawing breath to say: "I need your car to go to Birmingham." 24 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:09,816 You didn't have it in you to say, did you? 25 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,280 - I just went, "Oh, OK." - And then you took her car! 26 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,280 Well, we left before she was up. 27 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,360 So she's going to come out... 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,720 Every January for a few days, 29 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,560 fields right across the country have no farmers in them. 30 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,640 Because this is the time of year when they go to Birmingham for LAMMA, 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,560 the annual farm machinery show. 32 00:01:52,759 --> 00:01:55,880 Look at the amount of pickup trucks going to the NEC. 33 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,920 Now this is a proper... Look at this chap here, he's got it all worked out. 34 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,560 No styling happened with that roof on his pickup. 35 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,760 No, but it's designed to fit in a lot of dead sheep. 36 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,120 Exactly. 37 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,760 Once inside the vast halls, 38 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,840 Kaleb became as excited as I used to be at motor shows... 39 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,000 when I was eight. 40 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,680 Oh, look at the CR9! 41 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,360 That's where they had the CR11 last year. 42 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,200 This is a smaller version of it. 43 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,240 I can't work out why they've got... This as a CR9-90. 44 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,160 I know, it says that. 45 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,816 It's nice, isn't it? I like the colour. Has it got black rims? 46 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,016 - Yes. - Oh, look at that! 47 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,840 And it's got the blue round the outside. 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,680 That's cool that, hey? That's me. That's a bit of me that. 49 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,840 - What is? - That. 50 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,600 Well, look at it: blinged up. 51 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:46,800 I, meanwhile, 52 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,960 felt like my sister used to feel at motor shows when she was eight: 53 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,720 completely baffled by everything. 54 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,680 What's that? 55 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,160 This is a great start. 56 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:06,440 A mower. 57 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:07,920 Nearly. It's a mulcher. 58 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,080 - Oh, is it? - Yeah. 59 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:10,520 What's that? 60 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,800 Erm... Muck spreader? 61 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,480 No. That's a straw blower. 62 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:16,800 What's that there? 63 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:18,960 Pile driver. 64 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,200 Log splitter. 65 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,920 What's that one over there then? 66 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,480 It's a tedder. 67 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:25,520 - It's a what? - It's a tedder. 68 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,000 So you mow your grass, you come through with a tedder, flips it back over. 69 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,920 - You see what I mean? - No. 70 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,480 Kaleb, how are you doing? 71 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:34,880 - Are you well? - Yeah, not bad, mate. 72 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,840 - Where is the old, er... - There he is. 73 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,520 Ah, you old sort! How're you diddling? 74 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,480 - Are you all right? - Yeah, not too bad. 75 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,840 Kaleb, just endlessly stopped by big-boned men with stout shoes on. 76 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,880 Pauses only to tell me things that make no sense. 77 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,120 Later in the morning, I lost my guide... 78 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:57,536 It's nice to be able to give people that opportunity... 79 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,920 ...because he'd been booked to take part in some sort of 80 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,200 rural TED talk. 81 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,120 Hello, everybody. I'm Kaleb. 82 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,280 Probably best known as I'm on "Clarkson's Farm". 83 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,560 But of course I've got my own theatre tour that I did beginning of the year. 84 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,440 Erm, also got three books out. 85 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,680 As he humbly introduced himself... 86 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:15,880 Stuff on social media... 87 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:20,000 ...I walked around in a state of complete confusion. 88 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:23,440 What is that? 89 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,200 And what's that? 90 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:29,880 And that? 91 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,800 Oh look, a lunar rover. 92 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:36,576 See, this is what it's like when you walk round without Kaleb. 93 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,720 It's like being in a... I don't know, 94 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,800 a market in Cambodia where you just look at all the things and think: 95 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,600 "Oh, is that a fish? Is it a plant? I dunno." 96 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,480 Eventually, I arrived in a hall full of futuristic high-tech equipment, 97 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,360 where I expected to be even more baffled. 98 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,760 But, once the salesman got his teeth into me, 99 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,280 I became quite intrigued. 100 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,056 Have you ever seen something like this before? 101 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,560 No. Er, what is it? 102 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:14,560 It's a seeding and weeding machine. 103 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,200 It's an autonomous vehicle, electrical driven. It's, er, powered... 104 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,720 - I'm guessing solar. - Powered by the solar, yeah. 105 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:22,040 In Denmark? 106 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:23,480 - Solar. - Solar? 107 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,280 What, on June 7th in 1981 there was a sunny day there. 108 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,240 Exactly! 109 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,720 But what if there's no sunshine? Which does happen. 110 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,760 It does actually run twenty-four seven. 111 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,120 It has a battery pack in the back, so it's running in the night too. 112 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,280 So then, how's the weeding and seeding... 113 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,480 Basically, this is a seeding machine, 114 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,920 it's a weeding machine, and it's all done by GPS. 115 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,760 God, how accurate is it? 116 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,080 Accuracy between 8 and 10 millimetres. 117 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,720 Oh my word. What's the phallus? 118 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,920 This one? That's the GSM antenna. 119 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,600 - So what's that then? - That's the GPS antenna. 120 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,360 And the last one here, that is the rain gauge. 121 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,400 So if it suddenly starts raining, 122 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,840 let's say one millimetre of rain, it will just stop the operation 123 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,960 to avoid damaging the crops. 124 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,640 And then you of course get a message back saying, OK, it's stopped due to the rain. 125 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:14,016 - Oh, you can talk to it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 126 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,040 So you're looking on your phone or your tablet, on an app, 127 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,960 then you can see, you know, if it's running out of seed it will stop 128 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,640 and send a message back: "Hey, Jeremy, I'm out of seeds." 129 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,480 So my recommendation is to choose the high-value crop. 130 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,600 It could be onion or beets or red beets or... 131 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,080 Onions? Are onions high value? 132 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:35,400 I would say so, yeah. 133 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,376 If you filled those up with onions... 134 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,200 Yeah. 135 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,760 How big a field would it do before it ran out? 136 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,200 You can seed at least five hectares, that's no problem. 137 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,440 So that's what? Twelve acres. 138 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,280 We're doing five hectares a day. 139 00:06:48,159 --> 00:06:49,159 That's brilliant. 140 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,080 Meanwhile, over in the TED talk, 141 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:56,440 Kaleb was in full life-coach-guru mode. 142 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,720 Dreams don't work unless you do. I take that with me all the time. 143 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,520 And no matter what you do, if you keep working hard, and again, 144 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,280 dreams don't work, unless you can make that happen. 145 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,040 So I think actually believe in yourself 146 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,736 and actually just go "Yeah, you are good enough" straight away from the get-go. 147 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,160 Don't ever believe that you're not. 148 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:12,336 And if you're not, it's fine, 149 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,000 you're just not meant to be doing that certain thing. 150 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,400 Back in the future, having been bewitched by a machine 151 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,880 that could plant crops without the need for a tractor, 152 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,160 I'd now found a tractor that had no need for a driver. 153 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,320 So this is probably the first in the market 154 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,440 that is a fully autonomous tractor 155 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,280 that we can let go night and day unattended. 156 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,480 - So it just runs? - Runs night and day. 157 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,120 Set it off, go to bed, get up in the morning, job done. 158 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,720 You set it up to... drill? 159 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,520 Yeah, cultivate. 160 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,800 Standard rear linkage. 161 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,800 So you've got all your existing implements on. 162 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,960 Standard hydraulics. Front linkage. 163 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,480 Just everything that you need. 164 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,560 How fast will this one go along? 165 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,680 Is it just like a normal tractor speed? 166 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,680 Yeah, so nought to 12.6 km/h. 167 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,440 OK. So fast enough to do normal farming. 168 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,136 Absolutely, normal work, yeah. 169 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,080 - So it can do normal farming. - Yeah. 170 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:09,640 Without Kaleb. 171 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,400 A tractor with no aggravation. Imagine that. 172 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,680 Oh, no Kaleb? 173 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,760 No Kaleb. Just imagine. 174 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,960 My mind was now racing with all sorts of new ideas. 175 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,320 Which, the following day, I couldn't wait to share with Charlie. 176 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:34,880 Farming 177 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,840 does what it does year in and year out. 178 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:39,080 Yeah. 179 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:40,840 We are reaching a point 180 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,960 where that's just not working anymore. 181 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,640 The climate's changing 182 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,520 and we have a truly idiotic government. 183 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,160 So, it's like beating your head against a wall. 184 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,760 Idiotic government and it never stops raining. 185 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,680 There's no point doing what you do year in, year out. 186 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,720 The definition of idiocy 187 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,560 is doing the same thing over and over again 188 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,600 - and expecting a different result. - Yep. 189 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,880 We've now reached a point where farmers, I think, have to say: 190 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,760 "We have to do this differently." 191 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:08,920 - Yeah. - So... 192 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:10,840 There it is. 193 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,600 - An Agbot? - Yeah. 194 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:19,840 You're gonna have a driverless tractor? 195 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,040 I'm not a very good tractor driver, 196 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,440 I've come to understand that after five years. 197 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,840 I can't plough, I can't cultivate, I can't drill, 198 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,560 I can't attach anything to it still. 199 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,600 Once that thing's plodding around 200 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,080 doing cultivating or drilling or whatever job you've given it... 201 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:39,040 Yeah. 202 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,400 You can be getting on with something else. 203 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:44,360 And it doesn't make mistakes. Unlike me. 204 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,040 Erm... OK. 205 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,040 You have to mark out obstacles in the field as well, presumably? 206 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,520 We haven't really got any obstacles in our fields. 207 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,960 We don't have trees. We've got one telegraph pole that I hit in... 208 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,400 - There are five in that field. - Yeah. 209 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,600 Will it lift everything? 210 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:02,840 It looks quite compact. 211 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,480 Well, they must have written what its lifting capabilities are. 212 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:08,080 Did you not ask? 213 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,760 No. I just thought it looked really cool. 214 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,600 And, that brings me onto... 215 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,200 seeding and weeding robot. 216 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,520 But that's gonna do the planting? 217 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,160 Ah, not of the onions and beetroot. 218 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:26,880 We don't grow onions and beetroot. 219 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,360 - We're growing onions and beetroot? - Yeah. 220 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:33,960 Why onions and beetroot? 221 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:35,800 'Cause that's what this can do. 222 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,920 So, the tech does it, so we're growing it? 223 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:40,920 I wanna see if it does it. 224 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,400 While Charlie went off to source this new kit, 225 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,840 I decided to go to the Netherlands 226 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,960 to look at the high-tech farming that they're doing over there. 227 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,280 At first, this felt odd, 228 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,480 because normally, when I'm on a road trip with a film crew, 229 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,200 I'm accompanied by Hammond and May, 230 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,040 who are also seasoned globetrotters. 231 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,760 This time, though, my companion wasn't. 232 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,280 Is the air like the same here, in France? 233 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,920 Is it different? Do you smell different, like... 234 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,736 Do you know what I mean? Like, is it dense? Is it... 235 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:40,760 Is it different? 236 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,760 No, it's not. It's the same. 237 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:44,920 It's gonna feel weird leaving England. 238 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,880 - We haven't left it yet. - I know, but... 239 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,416 You're still in Oxfordshire I think, actually. 240 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,360 - I know, I think we are! - You haven't even left Oxfordshire yet! 241 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:53,440 I know, but that's what's going through my mind! 242 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,160 You know when we go over there it's an hour ahead? 243 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:57,760 - Is it? - Mm-hmm. 244 00:11:58,920 --> 00:11:59,920 How? 245 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,000 - What? - How? 246 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,120 It just is. 247 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,200 But how? 248 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,160 Apart from Portugal: France, Spain, Italy, Germany, 249 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,896 all of Europe, really, is an hour ahead of us. 250 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,120 Will I get jet lag? 251 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,736 No, it's only like when the clocks go back and forwards in England. 252 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,760 Oh, OK. 253 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,400 As "Ranulph Fiennes" and I headed towards the Channel Tunnel, 254 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,920 I explained the thinking behind our fact-finding mission. 255 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,280 So, when I was at LAMMA, I started to realise 256 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,640 we've got to get more tech. 257 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:39,976 - We've gotta get more modern. - The future. 258 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:40,800 Well... 259 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,240 Here's the deal. 260 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,680 I once did that programme Who Do You Think You Are?, 261 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,120 where you trace your family tree. 262 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,320 Mm-hmm. 263 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,160 And I discovered that I'm from this family called the Kilners, OK? 264 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:52,960 My great-grandmother was a Kilner. 265 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,560 And they had this huge company that made glass, huge, massive. 266 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,400 They had two factories, each of which covered an area of 17 acres. 267 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:02,360 Holy moly. 268 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:03,920 - They're big. - Wow. 269 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,880 If you bought anything in the world that was in glass, 270 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,160 so a Gin Sling in Singapore, a bottle of pills in Texas, 271 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,600 it almost certainly came in a bottle made by the Kilners. 272 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:14,816 - Yeah. - They were massive. 273 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,400 - Anyway, they didn't modernise. - Right. 274 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:20,120 And all these little glassmakers were coming along 275 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,320 - using modern technology. - Yeah. 276 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,080 And before you knew it, Kilners had gone 'cause they didn't... 277 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,760 - They were stuck in the past. - They were stuck in the past. 278 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,560 And they were wiped out. And they were wiped out really quickly. 279 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,240 So I think Diddly Squat's got to get a bit more techy. 280 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:36,040 - Yeah. - That's what I'm saying. 281 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,480 And in Holland, 282 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,440 they're very fastidious in their farming, as far as I can work out. 283 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,000 I was reading the other day they're the most efficient farmers in Europe. 284 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,480 - Really? - The Danes and the Dutch, yeah. 285 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:56,640 Twelve miles. 286 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:00,160 I've got butterflies. 287 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:01,480 - Have you? - Yeah. 288 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,400 What number plate's that then? 289 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:08,880 - Dutch. - Is it? 290 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,880 "NL"? What does it mean? 291 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:12,600 Netherlands. 292 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:16,880 "P". 293 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:18,280 Portugal. 294 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Denmark, "D". 295 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:24,600 Germany. 296 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,560 - For a "D"? - Deutschland. 297 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,896 You'd have thought they'd put a "G" on it for Germany, wouldn't you? 298 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,320 You'd have thought they'd put a "G" on it for Germany. 299 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,680 Yeah, but they call themselves Deutschland, remember. 300 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:37,640 Why? 301 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,520 - That's what they named themselves. - 'Cause everyone hates Germany. 302 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,280 Leaving England! 303 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,880 Have you seen my passport? Look how shiny it is. 304 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,840 - Shinier than mine probably. - Look! 305 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,000 Oh, blue! You've got a blue one! 306 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:00,880 Let's have a look at your passport. 307 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,360 Yeah, you look like a crim. 308 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,240 You're middle name's Wayne, I didn't know that. How ridiculous. 309 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,800 - What do you mean "how ridiculous"? - Well, it's just funny. 310 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,760 Once we cleared passport control, 311 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,280 Wayne started asking me about the actual tunnel. 312 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,120 How deep is it? 313 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:23,200 Erm... 314 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:24,960 Well, it's un... it's not... 315 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,600 It's underneath the bottom of the sea, if that makes sense? 316 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,880 So it's quite deep. 317 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,720 I mean, psychologically you know you're under the sea, 318 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:36,600 but it's only the same as being in a tunnel. 319 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,496 Well, you've never been in a tunnel, have you? No. 320 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:39,520 No. 321 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:41,160 Oh God. 322 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,120 How many trains are down there? 323 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,080 I don't know. 324 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,800 - How many carriages does it pull? - Don't know. 325 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,800 - How many cars does it fit on a carriage? - I don't know. 326 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,560 When was the Titanic? When was the Titanic? 327 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,080 1912. 328 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,440 OK, so this was after... This was obviously... 329 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:00,600 - Well after. - Yeah. 330 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,480 This was 1988. 331 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,760 - Holy shit, how wide is it? - The train's quite wide. 332 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,880 And here we go, we are mounting the train. 333 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,136 It's weird to think this is the first train you've ever been on. 334 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,080 And I bet not many people 335 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,920 are able to say that the first train they ever went on was a Eurostar train. 336 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,120 You can get out, stretch your legs. 337 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,520 I'm gonna stay here. 338 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,240 - What? You don't wanna get out? - No. 339 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,240 - You do look nervous. - I fucking am! 340 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,000 How do they put oxygen down there? 341 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,800 - What do you mean? - Well... 342 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,496 How do they get oxygen flowing through the... 343 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,000 It just goes... It's not sealed at the end. 344 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,920 If there's two holes at either end, it's full of air. 345 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,079 I know, but surely you've gotta push the air down there? 346 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,240 - No. - Air rises up. 347 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,319 No, it doesn't. Air goes in any direction it wants. 348 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,520 And if you go so far under the sea, air doesn't travel through water. 349 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,960 You're not. No, but either end isn't under the water. 350 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:22,200 We're going into a hole 351 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,240 which is above the ground, 352 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,359 above the waterline... 353 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,400 Let's say this is the sea, yes? 354 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,240 - The hole starts here... - Yeah. 355 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,120 And here, and goes down like this. The air is only gonna fill here. 356 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,720 There's air in the tunnel, Kaleb. I promise there's air. 357 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,760 You don't need scuba outfits to cope. 358 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,520 There will be air. 359 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,120 Ooh, we're moving. 360 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:50,880 Here we go. 361 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:54,280 Here we are. 362 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,800 Luckily, the tunnel didn't spring a leak 363 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,360 or run out of oxygen on that particular journey. 364 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,640 And half an hour after setting off, we were in France. 365 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,480 You're abroad! 366 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,840 I'm out of England. 367 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,760 It feels weird, dunnit? 368 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,056 - Well... - Just think five years ago, though. 369 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,640 I know, five years, you'd not been out of Chipping Norton. Now look at you. 370 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,280 You're like James Bond. 371 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,480 We crossed the border into Belgium... 372 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,960 and eventually reached our overnight halt in the city of Bruges. 373 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,520 Which I was keen for Kaleb to see. 374 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:51,800 Oh wow. 375 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,640 This is what abroad is like. 376 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,736 - Everywhere is like that. - That's very pretty, isn't it? 377 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,840 Yeah. Abroad is pretty. 378 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,440 I thought you'd be like Karl Pilkington coming abroad, 379 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,240 but you're not, you're actually liking it. 380 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,560 Well, it's nice. I dunno, it's the views, look at it. 381 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,800 Yeah, it's really nice. 382 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,800 So they've actually got some of Jesus's blood in there. 383 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,960 - The actual blood? - It's the only example in the world. 384 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,680 How do they know it's his? 385 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,200 Well, now, let's not get bogged down with how they know things. 386 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,960 I mean, it's like barred up. 387 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,440 Well, it would be. 388 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,000 Imagine if you stole Jesus's blood. 389 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:30,640 What'd it be worth? 390 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,680 I think if you took it to the market at Chipping Norton and said 391 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,016 "This is Jesus's blood", they probably wouldn't believe you. 392 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,280 They'd tell me to fuck off! 393 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,200 Oh look! 394 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:46,000 Now I like this bit here where you can see down the canal, look. 395 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,400 That's really pretty. 396 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,080 Wow. 397 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,960 It's so beautifully lit, isn't it? 398 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,400 Oh, look. 399 00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:59,480 Have they got crocodiles here? 400 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,720 - What? - No, they don't have crocodiles here. 401 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:15,360 The next morning, 402 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,680 we set off to the Dutch border to meet our first high-tech farmer. 403 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,480 And I was very much looking forward to this. 404 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,720 What he's doing is very old-fashioned farming: 405 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,920 know your farm, know every square inch of your farm, 406 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,000 but use modern technology to get the best out of it. 407 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,120 I've got really excited about this streamlining Diddly Squat. 408 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,360 - It needs it. - It does. 409 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,000 We're busy fools at the moment. 410 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,080 That's a good way of putting it. 411 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,080 Oh I know why. I know why we're busy fools. 412 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,440 - Why? 'Cause of me? Is it me? - Yeah. 413 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,200 Yeah, I thought it might be me. 414 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,320 Well, I wanted to try lots of different types of farming... 415 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,720 Agreed, but you wake up and go: 416 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,960 - "I know, today... pigs." - Yes. 417 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:03,240 "And we're gonna put 'em in the furthest place on the farm away from the farm." 418 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:06,440 Yeah, that was a mistake. And they've eaten and killed all the trees. 419 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,480 "Oh no, what about goats? Let's get some goats. 420 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,496 - Yeah. Now, where are we gonna put them?" - Well, I like the goats. 421 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,360 "We'll move them around and fence it off an area 422 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,600 to build that shelter three thousand times a year." 423 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:18,680 But, they're great animals. 424 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,336 "I know what we're gonna do now. I want chickens in that wood over there, 425 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,800 but I don't wanna see their huts so put them on the other side of the fence." 426 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,000 Yeah, I did do that. 427 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,520 "But we'll only get fifty and have them all in three different pens." 428 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,200 - Yeah, we did do that. - "That's not a bad idea that." 429 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,360 I did do that! 430 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,440 Well, they're three different types. 431 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,680 They can still run together. 432 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,160 On the way, we stopped to fill up. 433 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,640 Well, let's have some Super 98. 434 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:50,840 Super, yeah? 435 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,280 And as the petrol station had a chip van, 436 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,720 I introduced Kaleb to Belgium's national dish. 437 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,360 'Cause the French fry was invented in Belgium. 438 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,320 Was it? 439 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,160 Yeah. You're never more than six feet from a bag of chips. 440 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,800 Hi, mate. What are they? 441 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,200 - Meatballs. - Meatballs? 442 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,720 - Cow. - Cow? 443 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,280 - Beef. - Beef. 444 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,120 Oh, OK, yeah. 445 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,720 I'll have one of those and a bag of chips. 446 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,800 - And then you've gotta put mayonnaise on. - Why? 447 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,640 You've seen Pulp Fiction. 448 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,080 "Pop picture"? What do you mean? 449 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:26,680 Pulp Fiction. 450 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,160 - What do you mean? - Oh God. 451 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,080 Thank you very much. 452 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,680 Meatballs. 453 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,120 Thank you very much. 454 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,960 Thank you. Oh no, I've gotta pay you. How much is it? 455 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,600 It's, er... 456 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:04,080 You know your earlobes are completely see-through? 457 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,280 After "Wayne Ramsay" had given his verdict on the meatballs, 458 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,280 we reached our first farm, 459 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,200 which straddles the Belgian and Dutch border. 460 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,200 And there, we met its gigantic owner, 461 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,600 potato farmer Jacob van den Borne. 462 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:31,680 I told you everyone in Holland was tall. 463 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,560 He's very tall. I feel very short now. 464 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,000 - Yeah. - Even taller than you! 465 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,160 Jacob's farm is about the same size as Diddly Squat, 466 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,720 but judging by the amount of equipment he has in his city-sized sheds... 467 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:49,440 Jesus! 468 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:51,440 It's unbelievable. 469 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:56,360 ...it was clear he was more successful at turning his acres into cash 470 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,040 than we were. 471 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,800 You've got parking spaces in your sheds for your tractors! 472 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,240 And look at those trailers. Look at them. 473 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,800 The sprayers, though, that's unbelievable. 474 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,200 That's your chemical sprayer and that's your liquid fert. 475 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,000 Er, actually, it's a twin-tank system. 476 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,320 Oh wow, look at that. 477 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,416 - So we do nine thousand litres of... - Unbelievable! 478 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,200 It's two sprayers in one, Kaleb! 479 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:20,360 Oh wow! 480 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,336 - So we can do two sprays... - Look at his little face! 481 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:24,440 - ...in one go. - That's unbelievable! 482 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,120 You're going to need a trolley for your cock. 483 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,520 So this is variable rate. The tyres' inflating system. 484 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,280 So you can let the tyres down 485 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,096 and pump them up while you're driving along? 486 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,120 Actually all my tractors, most of them, 487 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:39,960 also have inflating tyres. 488 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,880 OK, if everything in here is half a million euros, 489 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,680 which it probably is, except for the stuff that's more... 490 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,016 There's ten million quid in this shed? 491 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,016 - Twenty million euros? - In here? 492 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,600 - Well, yeah. - Oh yeah. 493 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,400 And again, a two-tank system. 494 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,840 And look, I'm gonna be boring, I'm gonna talk about this floor. 495 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,160 This floor is designed so that air can come up from underneath it. 496 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:05,656 So if you store potatoes or whatever you want to store on it, 497 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,600 they're ventilated from underneath. 498 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:09,960 How much does that cost? 499 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,000 I can smell the potatoes now. 500 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,280 This is what our storage room looks like. 501 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,840 Holy shit! 502 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,560 Jesus H Christ. 503 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,760 Shall we have a game of football, or three? 504 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,120 This shed can hold 6,500 tonnes 505 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,960 from the 32,000 tonnes of potatoes that we can store in total. 506 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:30,320 Fucking hell. 507 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,320 You know we could put all our barns in this barn. 508 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,360 - I know. - And my house. 509 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,600 Yeah, and all of Chadlington. 510 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,080 - So, another Fendt? - Yeah. 511 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,320 I should explain. We keep seeing Fendts, lots of Fendts, huge Fendts. 512 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:50,200 They really are the sort of most expensive tractors you can buy. 513 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,840 They're like high-end Mercedes-Benz tractors. 514 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000 And he's got three in every shed! 515 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,200 All from that. 516 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,120 'Cause he's adopting the future. 517 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:10,440 Unsurprisingly, Jacob also has one other piece of equipment. 518 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,880 I had chips for breakfast. 519 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,040 Chips again. Oh, thank you very much. 520 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,320 After Kaleb had finished his second breakfast, 521 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,120 Jacob then explained how he'd made his farm so successful. 522 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,600 And when I went in my fields, when I started this, 523 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,040 I took over the farm from my father in 2006, 524 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,520 I went to one field 525 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,840 and I harvested 30 tonnes on one spot of potatoes. 526 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,920 The other part, same field, same seed, everything the same, 527 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,240 90 tonnes. 528 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,160 That's a difference of 60 tonnes in one field. 529 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:48,360 And what was causing that? 530 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,600 And that's what we're gonna figure out. 531 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,520 So in 2009 we then started precision farming. 532 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,136 A lot of people talk about... 533 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,760 All farmers like to know the quality of their soil. 534 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,880 But Jacob takes this job to another level 535 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,600 by using specially developed equipment 536 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,680 to give him ultra-precise readings 537 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,200 from under the ground. 538 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,280 So everything in the soil that conducts, 539 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,800 so organic matter, that's water, that's nutrients, 540 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,280 every part in the soil that is conducting 541 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,680 is giving me the data back. 542 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,240 Do the scan, process that data and you'll get that map. 543 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,760 - Oh, is that a field? - That's one of my fields. 544 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,720 The red spots there are more conducting 545 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,280 and therefore bigger in yield. 546 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,680 Once he knows where the weakest and strongest patches of soil are, 547 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,920 Jacob can then programme his tractors 548 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,440 to fertilise and seed each part of the field 549 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,880 according to its need. 550 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,360 My tractors I programme to be 551 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,760 automatically detecting soil. 552 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,360 Then, they do the job, and at the end, when my driver drives off the field, 553 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,240 the tractor recognises, "Oh, you're done!" 554 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,880 So you tell the tractor to do different things 555 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,320 in different parts of the field, the same field? 556 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:14,280 Yeah. 557 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,600 Seeding, fertilising, that's all "variable rate". 558 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,480 And when it comes to tackling unwanted weeds, 559 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,440 he doesn't carpet bomb the field with herbicides like we do. 560 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,560 Instead, he uses his high-tech maps 561 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,480 to do precision spraying. 562 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,360 We can actually detect those spots 563 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,520 and actually only kill those weeds 564 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,360 without touching the rest. 565 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,760 So they're spraying, see, it just goes and when it sees a weed, "choo". 566 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:46,960 That's future. 567 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,960 So if you're not spraying the chemicals onto the crop... 568 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,200 So you will have a higher yield. 569 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,520 And then you're saving maybe four grand a year on our herbicide bills. 570 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,320 So you're not wasting money on any... 571 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,120 not even a square metre of the field. 572 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,800 - This is NASA levels. - Reduce that. 573 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,960 And Jacob's methods don't stop at soil mapping and programmable tractors 574 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,320 because he now uses drones to spray the fields. 575 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,880 If you look into the future in fifty years or something, 576 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,560 we will have tractors, 577 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,960 but a lot of it will also be drones. 578 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,680 And he had to deploy some admirable cunning 579 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,320 to get round some very strict EU laws. 580 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,680 There was only one problem, Jeremy. 581 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,960 It's not allowed to fly drones in Europe. 582 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,480 It's not allowed to fly them by computer, 583 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,520 it's not allowed to let them swarm and let them work together. 584 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,480 There is actually... You cannot do anything. 585 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,040 So did you know what we did? 586 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,280 I started an airport. 587 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,080 - What? - Yeah. 588 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,880 I can fly whatever I want as high as I want. 589 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:53,640 What, you've made your farm an airport? 590 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,600 I made my farm an airport! 591 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,880 That is so cool. 592 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,320 Outside, he offered to demonstrate his spraying drone, 593 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,520 which was not what you'd call small. 594 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:11,080 Jesus! 595 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,360 If you crash-landed that on a playground... 596 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,640 Yeah, you'd be... 597 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,840 It would be on the news. 598 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,440 How much spray does it...? 599 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,920 So we have a tank of 50 litres. 600 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,640 And how much would this field need? 601 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,840 And that will be one hectare and we can do that in 8 minutes. 602 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,280 I normally spray about 125 to 150 litres a hectare. 603 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,336 So you could programme it to come back to the yard, 604 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,400 you just top it up and it goes back out to whatever field you're doing. 605 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:40,136 I don't wanna do that, though. 606 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,776 I know, 'cause you like driving tractors. 607 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,800 Yeah. 608 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,360 But as a man who's about to embrace the future, 609 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,240 I need to be looking at this shit. 610 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,880 Once its tank had been filled with weed killer, 611 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:56,080 Jacob punched in all the information it would need for its spraying flight. 612 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,480 Lots of codes. 613 00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,056 How many litres are we gonna spray, 614 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,160 which pressure, which droplet size. 615 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,120 And it's spraying now. See? 616 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:12,560 Oh wow! 617 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,280 So it's now doing the first run. 618 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,800 Stops at the headland. 619 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,360 Makes the turn. 620 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,200 - I'm amazed. - And I'm not... 621 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,880 - It's doing it by itself. - You're not touching anything. 622 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,640 Bloody hell! 623 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,440 I'm just so embarrassed by our drone. 624 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,880 Which is just pathetic. 625 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,680 This is actually how 80% percent of the world 626 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,640 - is going to spray their crops. - Has to. 627 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,400 Come on, Kaleb, that is impressive. 628 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,376 And if it's really hot on a summer's day, look, I can't... 629 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,640 I'm ginger, I can't stand outside and hold that. 630 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,496 - I need to be in a cab. - You can sit in your car. 631 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,600 - You can sit in the car. - Sit in your car. 632 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,160 If I apply to have an airport at Diddly Squat, 633 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,640 there will be one objection from him. 634 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,720 So he's done that field in five minutes. 635 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,880 And then he'll come and land where he started? 636 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,360 Automatic landing. 637 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,760 Fucking hell, Kaleb, that is impressive. 638 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,480 - And also, think how quiet that is. - My tractor's quiet. 639 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,440 Not as quiet as that. 640 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,160 Reluctant though he was about welcoming in the new world order, 641 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,440 as we drove away, Kaleb had to give Jacob his due. 642 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,600 - That's serious farming. - Mmm. 643 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,360 - Yeah, that man was a serious farmer. - He was a serious farmer. 644 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,400 If he's got 32,000 tonnes of potatoes a year 645 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,160 at £250 a tonne, 646 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,720 that's £8 million worth of potatoes every year. 647 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:54,680 Yeah. 648 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,840 - I mean, the kit was just ridiculous. - Yeah. 649 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,160 There's so much information that's gone into my mind. 650 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,120 So, having introduced Kaleb to some brilliant Dutch farming, 651 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,840 I decided, as we headed towards our overnight halt, 652 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,680 to introduce him to some brilliant Dutch music. 653 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,160 Listen to that bass. 654 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,560 ♪ I've been driving all night My hands wet on the wheel ♪ 655 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,160 It's got that country feel to it. 656 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,720 ♪ There's a voice in my head ♪ 657 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,000 ♪ That drives my heel ♪ 658 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,320 ♪ It's my baby calling says "I need you here" ♪ 659 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,680 ♪ And it's a half past four and I'm shifting gear ♪ 660 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,280 Come on! 661 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,720 ♪ When she is lonely And the longing gets too much ♪ 662 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,680 ♪ She sends a cable Coming in from above ♪ 663 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,960 ♪ Don't need no phone at all ♪ 664 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,920 - ♪ We've got a thing and that's called ♪ - ♪ Radar love ♪ 665 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:10,040 ♪ We've got a wave in the air Radar love ♪ 666 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,560 Bonjour, monsieur. Je m'appelle Kaleb. 667 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:15,520 You what? 668 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:17,760 Bonjour, monsieur. Je m'appelle Kaleb. 669 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,000 - Ooh! - Do you know I learnt that? 670 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,520 The following morning, we headed over to our next location. 671 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,000 And it was mind-boggling. 672 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,280 Because it's a dairy farm. 673 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:40,320 On water. 674 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,000 Slap bang in the middle of Rotterdam. 675 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,800 - Hello, hello. - How are you? 676 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,240 - How are you? - Welcome. Peter. Nice to meet you. 677 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,096 - Nice to meet you. - Good to meet you too. 678 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:58,800 Nice to meet you. Very welcome at our farm. 679 00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,680 This is wicked! 680 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,720 It's the only time I've ever seen him smile in a city. 681 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,480 The floating farm is the brainchild of Peter van Wingerden 682 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,560 and his wife Minke. 683 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:13,480 And although it's in a city, don't for one minute think 684 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:18,120 that it's some kind of industrial battery-farm operation. 685 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:20,960 Sea cows? 686 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:22,960 Yeah, correct, sea cows, yeah. 687 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,120 The cows are free to wander about in the feeding area 688 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,800 or go ashore for a graze. 689 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:38,080 And as for milking, they keep their own timetable. 690 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,096 - Is that walking in to be milked then? - Yeah. 691 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,840 So the cow knows when it wants to be milked and just walks in there? 692 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Absolutely. 693 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,680 So this is completely automated? You can just go home and watch TV? 694 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,360 Exactly. And we have many cameras over here as well, 695 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,920 so we measure everything: temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, 696 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,880 if the cow's lying down, if she's standing up, 697 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,760 if she's eating, if she's inside or outside, 698 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,720 because it's what we call a free-range cow, so she can decide herself. 699 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,480 - How many are there? - About thirty. 700 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:11,720 - Thirty? - Yeah. 701 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,240 Although the farm covers less than an acre, 702 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,000 its output is staggering. 703 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,000 On the floor below, the milk is pasteurised or made into butter. 704 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,760 And then below that... 705 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,240 A cheesery? 706 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,720 An underwater cheesery. 707 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,520 How much concrete have they got in this country? 708 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,080 How does it stay afloat? 709 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,840 Is this floating or are you mounted to the...? 710 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:40,840 No, it's completely floating. 711 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,760 - It's floating? - It's completely floating. 712 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,920 So we are now three metres below the sea level. 713 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,080 Which keeps it cool? 714 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,240 The temperature's completely controlled. 715 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:51,936 But even more impressive 716 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,800 is the way this farm and the city work together. 717 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,520 When Peter goes out delivering his dairy produce, 718 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,760 he comes back with brewer's grain from the breweries 719 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,960 and yesterday's unsold stale bread from the shops. 720 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,880 None of which costs him a penny. 721 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,680 And then that is made into food for the cows. 722 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:17,640 Look at that. 723 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,240 And this is what? A day old? Two days? 724 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,080 We were wasting so much bread, and now it comes to us. 725 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,680 'Cause the amount of waste in a city, when you think. 726 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:28,840 - It's unbelievable. - Organic waste. 727 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,840 As for the grass that's used to feed the cows, 728 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,760 that comes from a very clever source. 729 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,280 So when they cut the grass in the football stadium, 730 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:40,640 you take the clippings? 731 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:42,600 Yeah, from the main pitch. 732 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:44,440 The best grass you can get. 733 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,656 They put seaweed on it and everything to make it look green, 734 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,600 so therefore the nutrients of that grass must be insane. 735 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,136 - Yeah, it's really good. - Wow. 736 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,016 And 'cause you're here you can just go and grab it all each morning and... 737 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:54,840 Exactly. 738 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,160 So this is the circularity of the city. 739 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,320 And this circular efficiency goes even further, 740 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,320 because Peter has a robot that collects all the manure 741 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:11,200 and that manure is then used to make drinking water for the cows. 742 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,256 We take sea water out as well. 743 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,760 - Oh, you've got a desalination plant? - This is our desalination. 744 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,880 And it goes to this side of the membrane. 745 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,840 And we heat up the other side of the membrane 746 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,400 by using the cow dung. 747 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,680 So if you put cow dung in this bin, 748 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,080 we put sea water in here, 749 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:33,600 it heats up to 35, 40 degrees, you can feel it over here. 750 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,400 - So we have... - So they're drinking sea water? 751 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,040 Yeah, correct. 752 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,720 And you use their manure to desalinate it? 753 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:41,880 Correct. 754 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,520 We're using and reusing everything. 755 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,880 Organic waste from the city to turn it into proteins again. 756 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,960 So, yes, this is the future of farming. 757 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,200 Fuck! Fuck! 758 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,560 This is just f... My mind is in overdrive right now. 759 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,480 It's about to blow up. 760 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,000 Outside, sitting by the solar panels that power the whole operation, 761 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,800 Peter then showed us the building materials 762 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,920 he was also making out of the manure. 763 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,600 So what do you do with this? 764 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,360 So this could be an inside wall. 765 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,800 - Insulation? - Insulation, yeah. 766 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,856 - So you could have your house insulated. - Yeah. 767 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,000 Your house would be literally full of shit. 768 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,040 Correct. 769 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,760 - People say mine is anyway. - It is. 770 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,400 I'm rarely amazed. 771 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,920 Lamborghini Revuelto amazed me 772 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,400 and that's been it for the last year or so. 773 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,360 And that's taking virtually nothing from the environment. 774 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,296 - Exactly. - And it's giving more back! 775 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,640 It's an almost zero footprint. 776 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,080 It's amazing. 777 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,120 We actually want to reduce food losses. 778 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,800 Because food losses is dramatic in the world. 779 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,320 We're losing so much food. 780 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,000 About 30% of all food produced is lost in the world, 781 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,600 while still one billion people doesn't have food. 782 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,280 So we need to change this. 783 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,840 And this can only be done if you produce local. 784 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,960 So what we've established 785 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,520 is Diddly Squat is in the wrong location because it's in the countryside. 786 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:14,920 And it's not floating. 787 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,560 It's where there are fields that's wrong! 788 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,800 Obviously, I couldn't relocate Diddly Squat to the River Thames. 789 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,320 But spending time with these ingenious Dutch farmers 790 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,640 had convinced me that if we're going to survive, 791 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,200 we absolutely had to modernise. 792 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,120 This is the remote-controlled toy you always wanted. 793 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:52,800 Oh my God! 794 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,360 What is that? 795 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:55,560 We have a problem. 796 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,280 Are they gonna stay? 797 00:40:58,440 --> 00:40:59,480 I don't know. 798 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:03,680 - Been a long time! I'm back, mate! - Alan! 799 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,200 - You're back! - That's a bit of a man hug, ain't it!