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- [Narrator] From planting and harvesting crops,

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to raising livestock

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to managing soil and water resources

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to the chemical analysis and genetic engineering of crops

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and livestock

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to agribusiness and Wall Street

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to the microanalysis and understanding of food nutrition

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to new methods of food preservation,

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packaging and safety

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to feeding the world's over seven billion people

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while caring for the planet's delicate ecosystems.

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All of these activities are undergoing a major revolution

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brought about by the introduction of digitization,

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big data,

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and machine learning into the 21st century's innovative

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and interdisciplinary food and agricultural sciences.