Big Picture Agriculture Interviews Us
The past few rainy days I’ve had the opportunity to respond to an interview request by Kalpa, the blogger at Big Picture Agriculture. She asked a lot of questions and really let me go in …
Economics
The Question of Yield
Our investors have often asked whether organic farming methods result in a yield differential vs. crops produced by conventional farming methods. Would a large scale return to organic farming methods result in decreased yields and, …
Energy in U.S. Food System
I wanted to highlight a recent post from Michael Bomford of Kentucky State University on his blog Energy Farms. Michael notes that USDA data show that the U.S. Food System is INCREASING its use of …
Crop Diversity Pays Off
Conventional agriculture production systems in developed countries rely heavily on fossil energy, but emerging uncertainties in energy supply indicate a need to better understand energy efficiency in conventional and alternative systems. So begins a press …
A Perspective on Ag 2.0 Silicon Valley
I attended the Agriculture 2.0 Silicon Valley conference co-hosted by New Seed Advisors, U.S. Venture Partners and Spin Farming. This is the second such conference, the first being in New York City, where Farmland LP …