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Agriculture committee  We've gotten both reactions. People don't want people replaced. At this stage, the way the farms are operating.... We've had conversations with a farmer we work with in the 42nd hour he's been sitting in his combine. They don't have a whole lot of spare employees. There are a l

September 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Michael Duncan

Agriculture committee  Oh, okay. I've been there for a long time. Sarah built it, actually. We've had that in place, and we're getting more farmers coming in, maybe a couple a month, kind of impromptu tire kickers who come and look to see what the technology has to offer. They might continue, or they

September 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Michael Duncan

Agriculture committee  For the robotics piece, a lot of people are playing with UAVs, which look at grapes from above, and from the top of the canopy you really can't see anything. The idea was that if we had roving robots with cameras pointing upwards, that's where we could see powdery mildew, leafrol

September 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Michael Duncan

Agriculture committee  We've done a lot of projects where there's no cost, so we have a kind of pro bono approach. We actually find that the adoption rates are higher when somebody has to pay for something, because they tend to value it more. People who are willing to pay also tend to go deeper into th

September 18th, 2018Committee meeting

Michael Duncan