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Krintz: Data will become farmers' most valuable asset over land and water
“I think the biggest change is that instead of thinking about some of the things we've been talking about here, water resources, amount of land, soil quality, the resources that we'll all be talking about that are going to be the most valuable to the growers th…”
The global supply of arable land is fully exhausted
“There's, the amount of arable land in the world is done. We're, we've used it all.”
Krintz: AgTech Sensor Market Is Fragmented and Proprietary
“Turns out that these sensors, however, are proprietary, and they all do a little bit something different, and have different interfaces, and so it's really hard to go between vendors if you wanted to try lots of different sensors on your farm”
SmartFarm edge appliance runs AWS and Google Cloud workloads locally
“Anything that runs in Amazon and anything that runs in the Google Cloud platform will run on this appliance.”
Open-source software will be key for widespread agtech adoption
“Open source software is going to be key.”
California produced $50 billion in agricultural output last year
“The amount of food we produce in California alone is enormous. Fifty billion last year.”
SmartFarm identified crop quality root causes via diffusion analysis
“We took the same data as part of our Smart Farm effort, and we did a diffusion analysis to try to understand not how to control a tractor, but why this differentiation of quality was happening. So we applied this, a diffusion analysis technique to figure out t…”
Most farms lack reliable, low-cost internet connectivity
“Most of our farms are lucky if they are connected to the internet. And if they are, it's extremely low bandwidth, and it's very expensive.”