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Posts By: Walt Duflock

January, 2023
Agtech Forecast: Q1 2023

Labor remains a top challenge for specialty crops, and it’s getting harder to find. U.S. farmworkers decreased by 70 percent in 70 years, regulatory costs increased 795 percent in 12 years, and U.S. H-2A labor increased from 48,000 in 2005 to 300,000 in 2021—which add transportation and housing costs. Innovation remains the best solution to turn manual tasks like planting, weeding, thinning,…

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WG VP of Innovation Walt Duflock Takes a Deep Dive into Vertical Farming

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) remains a very controversial and high-profile space. As one of the largest investment categories in AgriFoodTech, vertical farming and greenhouse startups have received over $7 billion in venture investment the past five years. Companies like Plenty, Bowery and AeroFarms have received large investments in part because of the media’s over-hype…

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Looking Ahead at Q1 2023 in Agtech

Labor remains a top challenge for specialty crops, and it’s getting harder to find. U.S. farmworkers decreased by 70 percent in 70 years, regulatory costs increased 795 percent in 12 years, and U.S. H-2A labor increased from 48,000 in 2005 to 300,000 in 2021—which add transportation and housing costs. Innovation remains the best solution to ...

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Walt Duflock: Stop it, Civil Eats. Agtech robots are not taking any jobs and farm workers are already a big part of Agtech.

Civil Eats put out an interesting Op-Ed on January 23 entitled “Want an Agtech Revolution? Center Farm Workers’ Expertise. It’s primary narratives are: (1) Agtech robots are coming to take all the farmworker jobs; (2) Agtech startups are targeting farmworkers for replacement and will eliminate tens of thousands of jobs across rural America; and (3) ...

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