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The Most Important Number to Watch in Specialty Crop AgTech
The most important number in specialty crop AgTech is annual automation revenue, and the big target we are taking on is how we can get that number up to $5B in one year. I’ve written before on the importance of getting automation to become a category with over $1B in annual sales. That metric is a big one from a segment perspective because in many tech categories there is precedent for that…
Agriculture v AI Data Centers
Water is once again right in the middle of a hot California dispute! Kudos to Erik Benson for a great article on the market dynamics that are impacting both agriculture and AI data centers around water rights, land values, and the relative impacts on state economies that are or are considering the impact if both are increased or decreased. This is not a hypothetical exercise. Data centers are…
We Need to Re-Think How We Do Bio-Controls Testing
It was a great week at the Salinas Biological Summit last week at the Salinas Rodeo Grounds. A full day of workshops and a VIP gathering on Monday, a full day of bio-controls content on Tuesday, and a full day of bio-stimulants on Wednesday. From a content perspective, I believe it was the best Summit yet. One of the topics that continually came up in content and conversations was the need for…