Star Trek for potatoes: can a hi-tech farm save french fries from the climate crisis?

Photo caption: A machine separates potatoes from rocks. Photo credit: Adetona Omokanye. Article by  Dominic Rushe. The Guardian – November 5, 2022.

Researchers flock to New Brunswick, Canada, to test both cutting-edge and bygone methods of spud cultivation to meet a challenging future

Against a backdrop of blue skies and autumn leaves that would make an Instagram filter blush, a group of agricultural postgraduate students at a New Brunswick farm are tinkering with technology they hope will one day help solve an existential crisis: how to save the world’s potatoes. […]

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