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I would love to hear about what you guys are doing. I think thats a huge underrepresented field (outside of monsanto/cargill).
by brianbreslin 12y ago
I would love to hear about what you guys are doing. I think thats a huge underrepresented field (outside of monsanto/cargill).
- lukeqsee 12y agoWe are specializing on one stage of the crop-growing cycle: pest management. In order to do that, we started by building a hardware tool to deploy in fields to monitor moth population. That's how incredibly specialized this industry requires: one part of the cycle and for one pest merits an entire company being started. Because hardware is really hard to get right, and then to scale, we've started developing software products in parallel. What that means is like just about every other provider in the space, we had to develop a general purpose platform to allow growers to even see their data (farm, field level management and visualization). Luckily, we have a contract with a regional company to build that tool while maintaining the IP. We're just now starting to get that right, so that we can move on to solving interesting problems in the space (we just released our first product built on the platform for scouting companies, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331917). Thankfully the data problem is in the slow progress of being solved thanks to http://openag.io/ http://openag.io/. Hopefully in the future, new companies only need to develop awesome solutions to particular problems and allow those to be integrated with a variety of data storehouses. Unfortunately, that's a long way off.