{"id":98446,"date":"2019-11-13T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-high-tech-vertical-farmer"},"modified":"2019-11-13T08:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:43:05","slug":"the-high-tech-vertical-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-high-tech-vertical-farmer","title":{"rendered":"The High-Tech Vertical Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The High-Tech Vertical Farmer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGcYApKfHuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it\u2019s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions \u2014 like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm. Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever? This is the fourth episode of Next Jobs, a series about careers of the future hosted by Bloomberg Technology\u2019s Aki Ito.<\/p>\n<p>Host, Producer: Aki Ito<br \/> Camera: Alan Jeffries, Brian Schildhorn<br \/> Co-Producer: David Nicholson<br \/> Editor: Victoria Daniell<br \/> Writers: Aki Ito and Victoria Daniell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it\u2019s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions \u2014 like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm. Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}