Farming
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13 statements about Farming, every show
Younis: AI's biggest impact will be farming, mining, and trucks
“Yes, I think the real impact of AI in the next. Five to 10 years really is going to be in farming, in mining, in construction, in self-driving trucks. That's where you're going to have a real impact.”
Van Trump: Farms Will Adopt Blockchain-Level Traceability for Inputs
“We think you're going to blockchain the farm is what we're calling in our world. You know, you're going to blockchain a farm, meaning the fertilizer companies and the input companies are going to have to report all that. And you're going to know what was put o…”
Mayya: Physical robots will handle farming and everyday tasks within five years
“In five years, we'll have physical robots. Like I'm fairly certain we'll have robots helping us with tasks, helping us, you know, even if, like I used to say, well, there's no job for me on online. I'll probably go end up doing farming, right? I think AI will …”
Kumar: Indian government promotes non-farm jobs because agriculture is unviable
“I never seen a program coming to my village and saying, you're doing farming, let us do better, do farming. Because government also understands farming, okay, is not viable. So we need to give, okay, something else for people to earn, okay. This government's m…”
Kumar: Government subsidies make Indian farming more economically unviable
“I believe, ok That is making farmer more, farming more unviable.”
Kumar: External Input Dependency Causes Farming Non-Viability
“It is extremely dependent on external inputs today. Without an external input, you can't do farming. That is the root cause of the entire non-viability of farming.”
Kumar: Pilot demonstrations could have eliminated stubble burning across India
“Ensure these 300 villages will never ever burn stubble, and prove that giving the stubble back to the soil has a positive impact on overall farming. Everybody would have adopted in the last 10 years.”
Webber: Agrivoltaics create a symbiotic cooling and shading effect for crops
“That's like a whole field of agrivoltaics, where you have solar voltaics together with farming, and you get these interesting things where you're getting electricity out plus food, and the plants cool the panels, so the panels are more efficient and productive…”
Lerner says farming is harder than building tech or graduate physics
“Farming is the hardest thing I've ever done. Much, much harder than learning calculus as a graduate student and, you know, physics and the rest of all of that stuff. It's much, much, much harder than anything I've done, and it takes more work. And more heartac…”
Saluoks: Carbon Credits Will Transform Farming
“Well, I think the main message is that carbon credits will transform farming.”
Domkundwar: Indian agritech must prioritize farming profitability over government subsidies
“We have a new generation of companies that empower our farmers because it is not about subsidies and giving money away to them. It's about helping make farming profitable.”
Girotto: Cash accounting makes farmer income statements unreliable for financial due diligence
“Well, you know, farming is one of the last cash accounting businesses in America, right? And so it is very easy for a farmer to look profitable or unprofitable depending on what it is they want to talk about that day, whether it's taxes or renting a new farm.”
Scola: Modern farming data analysis is primitive as 17th-century medicine
“Well, in farming, I feel because we haven't really value the meaning of such data, it's a little bit like medicine in the 17th century, where when you have a problem, you Gonna get a bleeding and hopefully it's gonna cut it off.”