4 ms·
This is great news, hopefully with enough heavy hitters backing this project it will succeed. I'm not a big fan of improving pesticide application techniques (
by sigmaprimus 5y ago
This is great news, hopefully with enough heavy hitters backing this project it will succeed.
I'm not a big fan of improving pesticide application techniques (one of the examples given in the article) as at the end of the day it is still pumping poison no matter how efficient but if it means less chemicals leeching into our food and environment, I suppose it's better than doing nothing.
LifeTrac is an interesting Open Source project that might benifit from this foundational type of support.
When it comes to agriculture, there is already a very large grass roots, open community of farmers and growers. Eg. Market gardeners, Seed sharers, Homesteaders even Hay farmers. I believe this group is primed to turn into a powerful societal movement but does require financial support to compete against the corporate giants that at present literally dominate the AG field(s).
- nerdponx 5y agoHopefully we get some Open Hardware too.
- protomyth 5y agoThis is great news, hopefully with enough heavy hitters backing this project it will succeed. I don't see any real agriculture heavy hitters (e.g. Cargill, ADM).
- sigmaprimus 5y agoBayer? Aka Monsanto? How about JD Tractors and the whole right to repair? But yeah it would be awesome if Cargil got onboard. They are into everything, I used to run multi purpose cables for Flir trafficon cameras that was made by a Cargil company. (FLIR could be a huge supporter too for that matter)
- protomyth 5y agoBayer is big, but they are not Cargill and the big farm chain companies. Cargill is into everything. You don't really work for Cargill, you work for a division that can operate totally differently than the rest of the company.