Agriculture

“The second largest user of water in the world behind agriculture is power.”

“We're also targeting water districts and hydropower, because that makes a lot of sense. That's where a lot of cloud seeding is done in, in the U.S. Today, that is silver iodide based. So we would, there's already existing customers in that space. And then our …”

“So our biological can target warmer clouds, which are where the ag fields are, so that we can access ag versus any silver iodide-based cloud seeding.”

“The Netherlands is, after the United States of America, the second largest agriculture exporter in the world.”

“We do know that across the continent that the largest sector of society is still employed in agriculture. So agriculture is still sort of the largest sector. Aggregate of what people do for work.”

“So that's why we focus on very specific problems on the farm. It's problems where in your head, you can actually calculate the ROI of deploying a sensor solution.”

“Only five to, maybe five to seven percent of the world's agriculture that could be irrigated still needs to be irrigated which is a sort of wonky way of saying that it's going to be a lot harder to increase yields, you know, now that most farmland is irrigated…”

“India still has close to 48, 49% of its labor in farms, both as farmers and the landless agricultural labor.”

“So you find the agriculture contributing about 15% of GDP, but occupying 40, 45% or 50% of the labor. Look at their families and all. So this makes a normal agriculture guy about six to seven times Poorer than the other person who is working outside agricultur…”

“We do know that across the continent that the largest sector of society is still employed in agriculture. So agriculture is still the largest. Aggregate of what people do for work.”

“Every form of storage in agriculture is treated as hoarding as part of the Essential Commodities Act.”

“We have about, I used to say a hundred million people surplus in agriculture, but another seventy million have joined agriculture in the last three, four years. Therefore, I believe we have two hundred million people who are surplus in agriculture.”

“So the 2017, 18 survey showed that from agriculture, an average agriculturist gets only 27 rupees per person per day.”

“When you look at the overall methane emissions globally, agriculture is about 40%, and 70% of that is enteric methane.”

“Just to put things in perspective, the restaurant industry overall is the second highest employer of human capital in India after agriculture. Ten million people directly employed.”

“Agriculture can be a technology. Although the market doesn't always value it as such. Yes. It is technology.”

“Some of the differences, first, there are a set of Areas that endowments seem to like to invest in that to us seemed like poor returns on risk. And so those included for most of the 16 years we've been doing this, most of credit has fallen in that category. Wh…”

“In the last few decades in the U.S., for example, nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture have been sort of flat. They've maybe gone up a little bit in the last few years, but they haven't gone up much, and that's because we are making some improvements in ef…”

“We had a peak in the total percentage of global land area used for agriculture right around the turn of the millennium, a little bit more than 37%. And let's be clear, it hasn't come down massively. It's come down maybe one percent of total global land area.”

“At some point it became clear to me, we were like trying to fix a system we didn't even understand.”

“Converting ecosystems that were composed of deeply rooted plants, like perennial grasses, with ecosystems that are managed by humans and composed of Our crop plants, which tend to be fairly short-lived and hence shallow-rooted, and therefore add less carbon to…”

“If you look at consumption, how much water is consumed, agriculture is the biggest consumer, and then cities, then the power sector.”

“Right now, it's like, you know, Asia plus the Americas is used for agriculture”

“I think that is what is going to happen around the world is that that sort of cap and trade or taxation system is going to get slowly rolled out for a lot of these externality costs in production and industry and agriculture, particularly because there are tec…”

“About, you know, a quarter of the Indian economy is related to agriculture, right? Much more than just the stated number, which reflects primary agriculture. There's a huge amount of agribusiness that happens around that.”

“Well, I always thought we were a country that didn't have deep roots in agriculture, growing food for taste. We always grew it for quantity and shipability, but never flavor. And we never had a strong sense of the table As a place of conversation and pleasure,…”

“The problem is, is that those processes that we generally interfere with are really valuable processes. That's why they've stuck around for so long, and so they're used by many, many, many different types of life forms, and so it's incredibly challenging to po…”

“We believe that agriculture is tremendously underserved by technology. It's been left behind in both software and hardware, although hardware has done a little bit better than software.”

“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.”

“80% of fresh water on earth is used by agriculture.”

“When I think about the most valuable data sets you could possibly have for agriculture it's field level yield. That is, how many bushels per acre are coming out of this field?”

“Fortunately or unfortunately, the last cycle peaked in 2012, but ag really was the best performing asset class for the decade ending 2012.”

“I think it should be a significant part of the portfolio all in, so I would say somewhere between 10 and 20% over time.”

“And so when AI makes it cheap for us to see and understand what's going on in the world, we won't fertilize fields anymore. We will fertilize individual heads of lettuce.”

“So globally, agriculture represents about 10% of global GDP, but only about .3% of the world's investable assets are allocated to this space.”