Turkey farmer John Zimmerman may be thousands of miles away from his Minnesota flock on a work trip, but he is carefully monitoring the the birds that might become your Thanksgiving dinner on his smartphone – as well as the robot taking care of them.
“We’ve got it down to a pretty good science,” Zimmerman, who raises 150,000 birds of varying sizes per year, tells The Independent. “I can control my barns from here in DC – technology has come a long way.”
