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CUTTING-EDGE AGRICULTURE combines ancient techniques with innovations and extraordinary scale.
The result can often look like something from a science fiction movie.
German photographer Henrik Spohler recently documented agricultural methods including the genetic engineering of plants by scientists in Germany, “gigantic outdoor monocultures in the United States,” and farming “under glass and plastic in the Netherlands and Spain” to show “places where man has assumed the role of Creator”.
He shared some photos below, and you can see more at his website and in his book “The Third Day.”
Irrigation channels in California transformed an area that used to be covered with dry steppe into one of the most important fruit and vegetable farming regions in North America.
Cacti grow in perfect uniformity in Borrego Springs, California.