For clients interested in hiring a professional futurist, business forecaster and/or keynote speaker who can address future trends in agriculture, I’ve posted a three-minute overview of a keynote presentation I recently delivered in Kansas City at a Case IH client event. (I tailor every keynote so, depending upon your needs, I would obviously use examples [...]
At the end of last year, I offered my annual list of predictions for the coming year. Prediction #5 was “Urban Crops” and it read: #5: A mid-size city in the Netherlands will announce its intention to grow 10 percent of its food supply within the physical confines of its city. Utilizing tracks of “open [...]
Last week, I posted an article on five future trends in agriculture. To better understand how these trends might play out on a real farm, I invite you to watch this new 5-minute video produced by John Deere. It’s called “Farm Forward” and it provides a glimpse into the future of farming: Interested in some [...]
In the coming months, I’ll be keynoting four agri-business conferences where I’ll be addressing future trends in agriculture. In my talk, I’ll cover a number of business, political, social, economic, demographic and technological trends, including precision agriculture, data mining/business analytics, biofuels, hydroponics, vertical farming, synthetic biology, cloud computing and supercomputing. What follows, however, are the [...]
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, 20/20 Foresight: A Futurist Looks Ahead to the Ten Trends That Will Shape the World of 2020, that I am writing with the able assistance of fellow futurist Simon Anderson. This chapter takes a look at the future of agriculture.) On a 7,000 acre farm in [...]