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Steve Sprieser: An old model to fund AgTech Innovation
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Andrew Nelson: Balancing the clock speeds of code and crops
SFTW Convo with a farmer who is a software engineer
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Farming the Microbiome: How Soil Management Shapes Life Underground
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When you need $ 200 million, instead of $ 50 million
What can we learn from the recent shutdown of Guardian Agriculture?
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Why did it take so long to find a cure for scurvy?
A historical lesson from the 1700s
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Ag Economics and Solar flares with the Space Plowboy
SFTW Convo with Dr. Terry Griffin, Kansas State University
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Showing up with a knife to a gunfight
California's archaic laws on farm autonomous equipment are hurting the farm economy
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The Vital Signs of Soil: How We Measure Soil Health
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Barking up the right tree?
Analysis of AgFunder's call-to-arms for incumbents
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Reducing friction to get to the market of ideas
Another evolutionary turn for SFTW
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