Thousands of startup ecosystems are fragmented across the US outside the bay area, NYC, and Boston. What if we did a better job connecting them? Thanks to these fantastic people for supporting the community: Victor Gutwein, Turner Novak 🍌🧢, Saaya Nath, Bess Goodfellow, Connie Bowen

Careful what ya wish for - give me a room full of farmers 🧑🏻‍🌾🧑🏿‍🌾👩🏼‍🌾 and robotics startups 🤖 and I might never stop talking 😁

This week's nuggets of wisdom from Janette Barnard 🌵 extend beyond livestock. Ag has to rethink why and how people work. Fortunately, "What's good for the person doing the work is good for the person paying for the work to be done" Sounds like an opportunity for innovation!

Catching up on weekend reads & finally read Isabella Fantini 's Food For Thought. The trends she id'd are spot on: 1) soil health is hot 2) automation 🤖is going to help solve the labor crisis 3) grower access is crucial 4) data control matters subscribe: isabellasfoodforthought.substack.com

CALLING USA Farmers! Apply for a Nuffield Scholarship and embark on a transformational travel opportunity to develop you, your farm business and community: agweb.com/news/business/… via AgWeb Editors #nuffieldag #agriculture #farming #agtech

Check out this article we're featured in! Proud to be pioneering a scalable, scientific approach to carbon footprint tracking on the ecosystem level. Reach out if you’d like to learn more about our approach and the insightful data we can provide data for your land.

🤖#FIRAUSA22🇺🇸 The #agriculture and #AgTech industries have long been dominated by men🌱 At FIRA USA, our main goal was to bring more #women & show that they are actively present in the industry!🤝 Oct. 18-20, 2022 at Fresno, Calif.🇺🇸 💻 Register now! fira-agtech.com/event/fira-usa…

Come by at 1:30 PT tomorrow 10/18 for a panel chat with Rob Trice The Mixing Bowl Charlie Anderson of Burro Anna Haldewang InsightTRAC Isaac Mazor of Nanovel and John Mey of Carbon Robotics about the crop robotic landscape!

Labor is the biggest problem for specialty crop agriculture. Great interview with Tim Hammerich and April the Apple Gal getting into the weeds on some of the nuanced challenges related to labor for s/medium organic 🍎🍏 🍒 orchards in WA podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

Criminalizing abortion violates human rights & is anti-innovation. This matters to the people investing the future of our planet. Farmhand Ventures is proud to be part of VCs for Repro. VOTE like it matters to you next week, 11/8. #vcsforrepro app.speechifai.tech/s/BiU3Zuk17OOF…

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🤖 #FIRAUSA23 🇺🇸 You are a start-up and you develop a robotic farming solution? You want to present your product to investors and find funding for your robotics solution? The FIRA USA Call for Pitches is made for you! 🫵 📆 Apply before June 30th on fira-usa.com/invest-day/

Partner @univbourgogne is hiring PhD student to write their thesis on the impacts of climate change on forests. The student will analyze multiple data sources, including our monthly net ecosystem exchange data! Apps due June 2. More info and how to apply: buff.ly/3W4fJjf

Good luck to our COO, Brad, who is in Switzerland pitching how Continuum Ag and Louis Dreyfus Company can work together to help scale the adoption of #RegenerativeAg! Such a cool contest we were chosen for! MassChallenge

#FIRAUSA23 🇺🇸 Are you a #startup? Only one month left to apply for our Call for Pitches! Come and present your robotic solution to our steering committee, to investors, and benefit from FIRA’s notoriety on Sept. 19th 📆 ➡️ Information : bit.ly/3MkRJFu #robot #agtech

🤖 #FIRAUSA23 🇺🇸 Meet some speakers at FIRA USA 2023🎙 Our panel of experts will be discussing “How farmers can use technology to make financially sound decisions”? 📆 Join them: Sept. 21st, 9:20 am - 10:05 am More: fira-usa.com/page-dun-evene… #robot #agriculture #agtech

🇺🇸 #FIRAUSA23 🚜 🎙️ Panel discussion “Developing open digital infrastructure for agricultural automation” ➡️Connie Bowen, farmhand ventures ➡️Mike Dentinger,@Trimble_Ag ➡️Curtis Garner, Verdant Robotics ➡️Steven Mirsky, USDA and Rob Trice,The Mixing Bowl Better Food Ventures

Listen to The Modern Acre ep300 in for some talk from the Nuss bros about organic for farm production. I've enjoyed watching this podcast+ community improve and evolve. I can't wait for some ag co deep dives, and I'm stoked for the new, not-over-engineered co-op model.

🇺🇸 #FIRAUSA23 🚜 🎙️ Panel discussion “How farmers can use technology to make financially sound decisions?” with ➡️ Arthur Chow, @seed2growth ➡️  Connie Bowen, farmhand ventures ➡️ Jeff Morrison, Grimmway Farms Moderated by Seana Day, @culterracapital Better Food Ventures

"We talk a lot about how climate change is going to reduce crop productivity, or...increase weed pressures thus impacting yield. What we don't talk a lot about is what economic impact does that have on the ability to do outdoor labor?" - Connie Bowen futureofagriculture.com/episode/climat…