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5.2 ounces? This is newsworthy? That's like a few hundred bucks of truffle they found after ten years. I appreciate the patience, but what is the promise her

5.2 ounces? This is newsworthy? That's like a few hundred bucks of truffle they found after ten years. I appreciate the patience, but what is the promise here?

ChrisRR 5y ago
Yeah so about $5000 according to the article. 4 years of 3 hours per walk doesn't seem like a good ROI I thought this article was going to be about they found an entire farm full of them
aussiegreenie 5y ago
It is similar to a "deep tech" company getting their first product. I know a bloke who spend 14 yrs between getting the special seeds to his first revenue for a specialist cherry. Now he could sell every cherry 10x over but instead charges about $5 per cherry. Speciality agriculture is very long term.
vasco 5y ago
More of them and more often - but mostly this looks like advertising for the "prepare your land to produce truffles in 10 years" company.
fragmede 5y ago
You think that's crazy, wait till you see how much a billion lines of code weighs!
teetertater 5y ago
I was wondering too, but I think the point was that it's the first one of (hopefully) many more to come and provides an insight into this style of farming
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dageshi 5y ago
I believe Truffles are in high demand in the US but it all has to be imported from Europe. Various farmers around the US have been trying to cultivate them to supply them locally. There's a pretty good video on the subject here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9Jpg3b90M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9Jpg3b90M
LatteLazy 5y ago
It takes 4 to 10 years to get any crop cultivating truffles. It's only been (publicly) known as a technique since 2012. So this guy was an early adopter. He should get more every year for a while now it's working. Combine that with climate change making existing areas unable to produce and the fact no one else can enter the market in the short term and he's in a good position. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023124105.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023124105.h...
SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> 5.2 ounces? This is newsworthy? When it's the first one, yes.

5.2 ounces? This is newsworthy? That's like a few hundred bucks of truffle they found after ten years. I appreciate the patience, but what is the promise here?

ChrisRR 5y ago

Yeah so about $5000 according to the article. 4 years of 3 hours per walk doesn't seem like a good ROI I thought this article was going to be about they found an entire farm full of them

aussiegreenie 5y ago

It is similar to a "deep tech" company getting their first product. I know a bloke who spend 14 yrs between getting the special seeds to his first revenue for a specialist cherry. Now he could sell every cherry 10x over but instead charges about $5 per cherry. Speciality agriculture is very long term.

vasco 5y ago

More of them and more often - but mostly this looks like advertising for the "prepare your land to produce truffles in 10 years" company.

fragmede 5y ago

You think that's crazy, wait till you see how much a billion lines of code weighs!

teetertater 5y ago

I was wondering too, but I think the point was that it's the first one of (hopefully) many more to come and provides an insight into this style of farming

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dageshi 5y ago

I believe Truffles are in high demand in the US but it all has to be imported from Europe. Various farmers around the US have been trying to cultivate them to supply them locally. There's a pretty good video on the subject here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9Jpg3b90M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9Jpg3b90M

LatteLazy 5y ago

It takes 4 to 10 years to get any crop cultivating truffles. It's only been (publicly) known as a technique since 2012. So this guy was an early adopter. He should get more every year for a while now it's working. Combine that with climate change making existing areas unable to produce and the fact no one else can enter the market in the short term and he's in a good position. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023124105.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023124105.h...

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago

> 5.2 ounces? This is newsworthy? When it's the first one, yes.