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Gorham: Farmers are early tech adopters with a hacker mindset
“And I actually think they're early adopters of technologies and in many ways have kind of a hacker mindset.”
Gorham: Farmers resist software risk because they get only 40 crop cycles
“You get one chance or 40 chances in your whole career to produce a crop. And you, you're not gonna just take a flyer on Some guy with a shiny software package who says this can help. I can try in my business, I can try Salesforce and if it doesn't work, I'll t…”
Sid Gorham: Climate Adaptation in Farming Requires Market-Based Solutions
“I think the only way agriculture evolves with the pressure of global warming is through those types of market-based solutions, and that, that requires farmers know, know their business.”
Gorham: US farming population will drop from two percent to one percent
“It used to be that a hundred percent of the country farmed and now two percent of the country farms, and it's going to be one percent before we know it, right?”
Gorham: Farms should optimize for dollar yield over crop volume
“We want them focused on their dollar yield, not just on their bushel or, you know, pound or ton yield, because really you want farms to be very, very careful about how they use resources and make sure they're only using resources that, that generate profit for…”
Gorham: Most American farms, even large ones, are family run
“Most farms in America are family run businesses. Even the very biggest farms are typically family run businesses.”
Gorham: Software adoption improves businesses by forcing process formalization
“Often what happens when you adopt software is it formalizes your process and makes you a little bit, you know, better run business, you know, above and beyond the impact of the software.”
Gorham: Farmers adopt new technology by A/B testing on small plots
“The classic way of adopting technology and farming is I'm not going to put this on the whole farm. I'll try it on. 10 of my thousand acres and we'll, we'll sort of AB test that way. That's been the traditional way that farmers have adopted new seeds or new, yo…”
Sid Gorham: Australia Operates a Fully Developed Water Rights Trading Market
“If you look at Australia, that's a very Hostile farming environment from a water perspective, and they have a fully developed trading system for water so that if farmer A doesn't use all his water, he can sell it to farmer B through this market.”