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Re:What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand ab... by BurningFrog on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:03PM (#23631563)
This may not be a high quality interjection, but I just want to point out that agriculture has been continuously disrupted for ~250 years.

Back then 90-95% of people worked in food production. Now it's 2-3%, and they produce vastly more food per person.

So it's not like farmers are not used to change.

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Re:What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand ab... by chungus_khan on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:23PM (#23631846)
The term disrupted isn't really appropriate here IMO, it is more of a continual and rapid evolution, which actually even better captures the dynamism of technological change they have to follow. To stay as productive as possible, farmers have to keep up on and integrate new innovations on the fly, often without definitive singular signals one would describe as "disruptive" in tech.
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Re:What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand ab... by BurningFrog on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:42PM (#23632925)
Sure, "disrupted" is a bit hyperbolic.
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