There is a general derisiveness towards farmers because we produce a lot of value and give it away for so very little. It became worse with govt subsidies and m

There is a general derisiveness towards farmers because we produce a lot of value and give it away for so very little. It became worse with govt subsidies and market forces because it further devalued what we do. Tech does not help farming and ag. Whatever ‘Agtech’ is happening now is a data play. Every technology out there that has gotten funding is because they collect data and that data is a commodity that can be sold for more than the value of the food produced by farmers who are at the bottom most rung of the supply chain. I do say this with a touch of bitterness because I applied for YC twice and won’t again because I was told that there is no money. (Without serving the data gods) I get the logic of it, but that doesn’t stop me from being bitter. It is particularly nauseating that Bloomberg should say this because the most invested Agtech is for commodity crops that get traded on Wall Street and the kind of crops like corn and soy and input companies and land surveys etc. and it’s business. I will never vote for Bloomberg even though he was in my shortlist. Something has been triggered that bought forth all that I have witnessed and subconsciously recorded about the devaluation of farming by tech and business communities since 2011 when I first started looking into at ways to improve ag with tech. The bubble just burst when I read that. This quote was from 2016.