Machines | AgTech: Sand Hill Bets on Precision Agriculture
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Date - Tue Sep 15, 2015 Location Stanford GSB: Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center ----------- Moderator: Rob Leclerc, CEO, AgFunder Panelists: Lance Donny, Founder and CEO, OnFarm Systems Jorge Heraud, CEO, Blue River Technology Brook Porter, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Ron Zink, Director, On-Board Applications, John Deere ----------------------- Agriculture is now one of the hottest high-tech sectors. With Precision Agriculture, farmers can collect timely data about their crops at the plant level to optimize how they cultivate each plant and possibly affect each fruit. Data-driven precision is replacing massive mechanization. Startups with advanced automation and control components, farm management software, remote sensing and monitoring, robots and drones, offer solutions that improve efficiency and increase yields, while making better use of land resources. A $3 trillion industry, Agriculture was until recently largely ignored by venture capitalists. Now Khosla, Kleiner Perkins and others are aggressively targeting the agricultural value chain. According to AgFunder, agriculture technology raised a total of $2.36 billion in 2014. The industry took on $1.04 billion in Q1 2015 alone. Will technology make agriculture more sustainable? Will the small organic farmers be able to compete? Will Precision Agriculture allow California to maintain its leading position in high-value crops such as almonds and grapes in spite of water shortages? Join us on September 15 to find out. Questions, comments or suggestions? Contact vlab-agtech@vlabapps.org
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I love the discussions from this channel. Another great one!
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Sand.....we're gonna have Armageddon before this happens....we will never hit 10 billion people because the War with machines and with each other over oil and water will kill about 5 billion people in the course of the next twenty years...only then will we stabilize that use such technology.....we're too "hard at work chasing money still".
Our perspective governments have already begun a slow euthanasia, by feeding us food that lowers out testosterone levels.....dumbs us down with poisons from Monsanto...and other things like fluoride in our waters.....Europe has banned fluoride....we know it affects neuronal efficiency......all science has proven this.
So,...don't worry about feeding 10 Billion.....worry about surviving the next coming man made Holocaust.