Posts By: Walt Duflock

Western Growers Rolls Out HarvestWiki to Support Startups in Tailoring Ag Technologies

Western Growers (WG) has launched HarvestWiki to help specialty crop growers share information about growing operations, allowing agtech startups to have as much crop-specific information as possible when they design and develop agtech solutions for growers. HarvestWiki—which is focused on fruits, vegetables and nuts—can be found at https://harvest.wginnovation.com/.  Like Wikipedia,…

Innovation Foreword: Silicon Valley Did Not Kill Agtech—and It’s All Agtech’s Fault

By Walt Duflock, Vice President of Innovation One of the ongoing questions in agtech is why agtech startups so often struggle to raise venture capital. Through multiple blog posts, podcasts and social media posts, Sarah Nolet, Matthew Pryor and I have produced content that provides two different answers for these struggles. Two of the most ...