This High-Tech Farmer Grows Kale in a Factory

Katie Morich loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever?

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In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions — like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm.
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