Agriculture is constantly changing as time goes on. If you look back about 40 years, people would’ve thought you were crazy if you said we’d be milking cows with robots in the near future. The point is that you never know what the future of farming will look like until it’s here.
One future aspect of farming could be an invention called “The Cube.” This is nothing too incredibly fancy, but it could help solve the issue of feeding the population because you won’t need as much farm land. The Cube is a refrigerated shipping container that would allow people to farm year-round and control the climate inside.
Some of the benefits to growing crops in a shipping container such as this is that you can stack them vertically or horizontally and they allow people to farm anywhere, even in the city. The Cube has a special operating system built in called Cube OS. The program collects data from each container like ph levels, carbon dioxide, and other important information for growing crops. This gives you the ability to change the temperature, water intake, and other factors as needed.
So far these “cube farms” are only in certain locations, with one being the United Arab Emirates. The plan is the keep on expanding to other areas that could benefit from being able to grow crops in a climate controlled space. Welcome to the future of agriculture.
