The Eight: Transforming Agriculture
Aidan J. Connolly, Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President, Corporate Accounts, Alltech. Alexa D. Potocki, Executive Assistant, Alltech, Inc., 3031 Catnip Hill Road, Nicholasville, KY 30536, USA.
Disruption is the word of the day. Disruption of taxis, hotels, movies and more have been evidenced by the arrival of Uber, Airbnb and Netflix, to name just a few. But who might transform agriculture? Since its advent about 10,000 years ago, farmers have cared for their animals in a more or less similar fashion. Little has changed except the farms have gotten bigger. As farm size increases, however, decisions are increasingly made on the averages: average feed consumption, average water intake, average milk or egg production. New technologies, such as digital technologies and nutrigenomics, allow us to imagine a more precise agriculture, with farmers no longer expected to farm Just animals and crops but also farming data.
