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George Matthews, a farmer at the Watercress Company in Dorchester, said: "One morning you could be harvesting and forecasting the area needed to be harvested down to the gram, and that same afternoon you can be developing a fertiliser program to be applied via drone."
Having grown up around watercress farms, I had always known they were a thing. But I never understood the level of precision needed to run them as an operation. LISTEN NOW: That changed when...
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