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Meet the Entrepreneurs Training 70,000-Pound Robots to Pick Your Broccoli
How do robots become a vital part of the $222 billion farming business? Practice, practice, practice. It is always nice when a journalist from a general business (i.e. non-AgTech) magazine comes by Reservoir Farms to see what is going on with the world’s first on-farm robotics incubator. It is even better when they stay for a few hours, talk to a few growers, talk to a few startups, ask a…
Congratulations to Gail Delihant for making the Packer 25 for 2026!
Big congratulations to my WG colleague Gail Delihant for making the Packer 25 for 2026. The Packer does a great job covering the key topics and movers and shakers in agriculture, and Christina Herrick does a great job covering both really complex issues (like some of the automation topics we've walked through) and articles like this celebrating the people doing a lot of the key work in support…
Top 10 Specialty Crop Automation Stories of 2026 (so far!)
I am working with ChatGPT to help me track the latest news and activities in specialty crop automation. A couple of weeks back I asked it to compile a list of the top 10 automation headlines for the year to date (so January through September). Here are the topics it came up with, and a few thoughts from me on the significance of each. Carbon Robotics crosses $100M in revenue There's no…