Farms
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
Innovators & Investors 
My First Million 
Capital Allocators 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about Farms, every show
Paying for artificial sunlight makes indoor farming economics completely unviable
“If you have to pay for the sun, that's not a great model, business model, and the economics of that really don't work out when you're competing with farms that don't have to do that.”
Van Trump: About 80% of farms are owned by people over 60
“80% of the farms are owned by people over 60, you know, and it's a really aging demographic.”
Philpot: Institutional capital ignores the $3 trillion family-owned farm market
“97% of the farms are family-owned. There's really not a lot of institutional coverage in agriculture like in the other sectors of real estate, especially for a three trillion dollar real estate market.”
The US government pays massive farming subsidies to limit crop production
“Some farms, my parents work in the agriculture industry. It's kind of how I know that some farms are so big and so good. The government will pay you money not to grow a crop because they say you're going to screw up the whole market. If you overflow us. Yes. I…”
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…”