Half of this ag-tech shit is so stupid I wonder if it's not just straight-up money laundering.
Half of this ag-tech shit is so stupid I wonder if it's not just straight-up money laundering.
I was a full-time farmer until after graduate school. The guy who rents the family farm now farms to the square foot and sometimes even at precision even tighter than that (applying chemicals sometimes is based on the 1/2 square foot)! And that is over the entire 7-10k acres he rents/owns in total.
The amount and variety of data he uses is startling.
One big competitive advantage of [company] was that we were able to hire smart, young ag scientists, especially LBGTQ+ ones, who wanted to live in a big, queer-friendly city. We had a lot of great people who were really excited that they didn't have to live in Davis or Ithaca, as well as people whose partners' careers tied them to a big city in some way (doctors, lawyers, finance).
(They would also add UMich, University of Minnesota, and the Research Triangle in NC to your list.)