Science Edition: High-Tech Agriculture

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Along with typical agricultural equipment like tractors, balers and harvesters, farmers of today are depending on modern technology such as computers, wireless communications and satellites to produce a high yield of crops. Rick Pantaleo talks with D. Ken Giles, Professor with the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of California, Davis; Allen Van Deynze, Plant geneticist and lead researcher, Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis and Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank about the high-tech evolution of farming