Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.
Farming feeds all of us — yet in rural communities, farmers are under pressure from mounting climate volatility and limited access to modern tools like the internet. How can agriculture stay resilient and grow with the times? Beth Ford, CEO of the farming co-op Land O'Lakes, shares her plan to establish broadband as a basic right nationwide and talks through an exciting range of climate-friendly innovations aimed at making farmers more sustainable and profitable. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED business curator Corey Hajim, was recorded March 2, 2020.)
The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know.
Become a TED Member:
Follow TED on Twitter:
Like TED on Facebook:
Subscribe to our channel:
TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy ( ). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at
She looks like she could be Mark Cuban sister
Love these videos!! Stay safe everyone
Excellent work TED! Currently working on my masters this helps me tremendously
I just now started this interview and it has nothing to do with farming. I hope you do well and listen to what your psychopathic professors tell you to write
Excellent work on propaganda TED!! You have shown these people know nothing about actual farming and land stewardship!
@kaja googoo maybe Thomas will do some real research if it’s actually for his master’s degree, but if he shows real facts he will probably fail.
Modern businesses are modern.
Businesses exist because they are profitable.
Profitable businesses are modern.
The video should be renamed _”Businesses should be Climate-Friendly”_
Subscribed long before. I am glad to watch your inspiring videos. Grateful, indeed.
So… this isn’t really about farming, this is about Wifi/Broadband expansion. I feel like this is a bit underhanded, to be honest. It’s a given that everyone benefits with fast internet. I would also like to point out that not having broadband is not the same as not having internet, so the story about teachers driving paper homework to farms is completely misplaced because you don’t need broadband to do that. Internet is available everywhere, but not fast internet. I get what they are going for, but the indirect route feels dishonest. Also, Corn and Soy are subsidized, they should not be because it has lead to massive mono-cropping which is awful for the environment and the land. Unless something changes, it doesn’t matter if there is no need for bio-fuel (which is also terrible for the environment, not better than traditional gas in any way), they will still get paid what they get paid. I don’t like dealing with symptoms rather than illnesses.
Exactly. My home is in the middle of nowhere just about, a good 15-30 minute drive for even a small grocery store, and my download speed barely reaches 9mbps. Satellite is enough for homework and such, this didn’t quite cover what I expected it to.
correct
Agree
hit it right on the head…
alot of chinese opterives where arretted with How a way
thanks Trump. Not Canada
I left this channel after I saw the monster in the last video goodbye Ted
The ceo of land of lakes should be looking inward at what their company can do to better serve their customers. Like reducing all the negative health effects from their products. As well as keeping the earth in mind when implementing biz practices. Sustainability will not come from tech utilization. It only comes from honest resiliency that large companies like hers cannot possibly attain while keeping stock prices in mind. I challenge them to go Benefit Corp status and stop externalizing all the negative impacts from their operations. Farcical and half baked propaganda from TED is becoming more and more obvious. Regenerative farming is all about sustainability and resilience but she would rather promote bandaids to keep her monocrop gmo bs lifestyle going.
Any Malayalee…….
I thought I just needed soil and water…..what gives????
The problem with this is corporate America trying to preach land stewardship. Industrialization of ag is what has creating the horrible impact of our practices on the environment. They’re trying to capitalize on lumping ag into their agenda for pushing tax payer money to pay for tech infrastructure that benefits Corps most. Just like taxpayers paying for more highways and bridges to support Amazon. And Amazon not paying a damn thing.
If we are subsidizing farms to stay in business, maybe we the people should own those farms instead of subsidizing private properties. Now China and India are buying up all our farm land, perhaps the U.S. should be buying the land that keeps us fed instead of having US taxpayers subsidizing Chinese-owned farms in the US?
Sounds like Utopia!!
Not always practical when your business is out in the boom docks where the GPS, etc may not work or work well including broadband