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Startup Sessions: Henry Cremers Talks AgTech With Verdant Robotics
Big congrats to our WG Innovation intern Henry Cremers for putting together some great AgTech videos this summer. Here’s the first one! It was a really great summer for our WG Innovation intern Henry Cremers. He’s a Cal Poly rising senior and a Salinas guy who knows his way around ag, AgTech, videos, and social media. Naturally given that background, we put him to work talking to as many…
White Pickup Trucks, Real Farm Problems and a Good Day for AgTech
Last Thursday in San Juan Bautista, there was a great set of field demos for specialty crop automation hosted by Jennifer Clarke and the Leafy Greens Research Board along with support from Mark Mason from Nature's Reward and Tony and Daniel Alameda from Top Flavor Farms. This was a really good demo day for several reasons. Attendance was 1.5 – 2x last year’s event. Attendance is important…
The Path to $5 Billion in Automation Revenue
The most important number in specialty crop agtech is $5 billion in automation revenue in a single year. I’ve written before about the importance of automation becoming a category with more than $1 billion in annual sales. That metric is significant from a segment perspective because, across many technology categories, there is precedent for that level of revenue generating meaningful…
New H-2A Numbers Highlight the Need for Agricultural Automation
Two Farm Bureau analysts put together some good summary points and trend analysis of H-2A data over the past year. I’ll include links to both analysis summaries at the end of this article. Cameron Castillo from Farm Bureau put together a really solid analysis of the latest set of H-2A data, along with some key trends and some emerging regional differences worth watching. This analysis follows…