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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…”
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: 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…”