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JOHN TOMAC: FUTURE FARM

April 30, 2015

John Tomac’s opener and series of illustrations for a special feature in Successful Farming magazine takes a look at the future of farming and what it might hold. 

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There probably won’t be flying combines, wi-fi enabled cattle, or farming on Mars any time soon. However, some crazy science fiction sounding things like using DNA to get better livestock and food crops.

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There is also promising research that involves getting plants to communicate with each other in the hopes of getting better crop yields.

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