Tim Hammerich
Accelerate AgTech Adoption: Avoid These 3 Killer Assumptions
“If you build it, they will come” is a great movie line but not much of a business strategy. Missing from many agtech startup plans is a...
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Tim Hammerich
- Jan 2, 2020
Behind Wine: How Mechanization is Helping with Vineyard Labor Shortages
The idea of wine country usually conjures images of idyllic rolling hills of peaceful vineyards. Most of us, even the most avid wine...
Tim Hammerich
- Oct 22, 2019
3 Investors Weigh in on the Future of Agriculture
I like understanding the perspectives of investors. Analyzing the big picture, investors stake their money and their livelihood on on...
Tim Hammerich
- Jul 2, 2019
AgTech ‘Disruption’ Creates New Market Opportunities
Innovation continues to accelerate. Why, in an environment of seemingly limitless solutions, do we still have so many problems? There are...
Tim Hammerich
- Jun 26, 2019
From Spray to Strike: Could Electricity be the Herbicide of the Future?
Dr Mike Diprose spent a career at Sheffield University researching electrical weed control. No, I don’t mean managing weeds around...
Tim Hammerich
- Apr 1, 2019
Saving Salmon: How Data Analytics is Helping Fish Farmers
How do two computer science majors end up starting a company in the aquaculture industry? For Tony Chen, Co-Founder of Manolin, it all...
Tim Hammerich
- Mar 19, 2019
AgTech 2.0: Solving the More Difficult Problems
I am not a farmer, but I do get to see a lot of new ag technologies coming to the market. Speaking with farmers, there is definitely a...
Tim Hammerich
- Dec 17, 2018
Rethinking the Tractor
Advancements in farm equipment have allowed farmers to cover more ground with less labor. It makes sense that as the average size of the...
Jaime Hammerich
- Dec 11, 2018
7 Accelerators Building the AgTech Ecosystem
Starting something new is difficult. Even the savviest of entrepreneurs with a good idea still face adversity. If this was easy, everyone...
Tim Hammerich
- Oct 5, 2018
Accelerating AgTech
When Sarah Nolet decided to write her master’s thesis on venture capital in agriculture, she probably didn’t realize it would lead to a...
Tim Hammerich
- Feb 17, 2018
Why None of the ‘Ebay for Agriculture’ Platforms Have Been Successful
Why isn’t there an “Ebay for agricultural commodities”? Well, many would respond with “there is!” There are actually several online...
Tim Hammerich
- Feb 7, 2018
Blockchain and IoT (Internet of Tomatoes)
What do you look for in a tomato? Sweetness? Texture? Color? Size? Variety? Perhaps the narrative of how it was grown? How it was...
Tim Hammerich
- Jan 31, 2018
First Rule of Blockchain: Do Not Use the Word Blockchain
I’ve used the word “blockchain” a lot lately. I had to chuckle at myself when Alex Danco of Social Capital told me his observation that...
Tim Hammerich
- Jan 4, 2018
5 Potential Use Cases for Blockchain in Agriculture
Warning: this is NOT another post about speculating on bitcoin. Blockchain — the technology that makes bitcoin possible, can also be used...
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