A few thoughts today on #AgTech. One as I’ve stated yesterday is I’m going to World Agri-Tech next week so happy to meetup with anyone around.
Two, I added some thoughts on a fun and great report that came out today by Tenacious Ventures with Sarah Nolet and J. Matthew Pryor and also Rhishi P..
I’ll summarize more on that here too if you don’t want to watch. Basically AgTech software and adoption has sucked as they point out and it’s nothing knew from me bitching about it too.
They why’s are harder and I think they do a good job calling out the main parts. There are some other nuances missed I feel in it but there’s a limit to how much one can write up so no blame there. One I address is just the culture and stubbornness of Ag in general. We are creatures of habit to say the least.
Another are I think they could’ve dove into more was many of the smaller FMIS groups out there that weren’t bought or managed by the large input and OEMs and the work and challenges they have done to almost keep the ship afloat. Some core ones out there for sure.
Mismanaged expectations and money are key factors in it and misguided corporates trying to do too much with not enough. Combined with gobs of money from investors to startups also had the same issues. They touch on that though maybe a little more emphasis on the input groups which have a lot of influence, but I’d say are not as much innovators as perceived.
One thing I’d argue is there are many behind the scene holding adoption and use of #AgTech strong in certain niches and regions of the word. Some fairly new some fairly old and many that are small and go unnoticed as they raised money through non-traditional means or they didn’t raise much if any at all. The silent majority maybe even.
There was an increasing trend in adoption always, though maybe we all were just swarmed with too much new and big too fast lately. Slow and steady wins races in Ag I’ve found.
Finally, they talk about AI helping this all and I’d agree. We need to very careful though with that too as the hype train with AI is also coming round the bend. It’s an easy verb to get attached too and while exciting it needs real substance unlike much of what wasn’t the last 10 years as highlighting in the report. We need to learn from our mistakes.
Overall, it’s a good detailed report I’d recommend to download. My style is not that but more in your face and through memes naturally.
Cheers to them for spending the time and effort and I guess I’ll see them I’m sure and many others this next week in San Francisco!
Back at it this week with my semi-daily video blog after a little delay (sick kids).
Talking about World Agri-Tech where I’ll be next week and this new report that Tenacious Ventures and Rhishi P. put together about #agtech adoption which was good.
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