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Congrats to the Farm Robotics Challenge winners!

The Farm Robotics Challenge Virtual Awards Ceremony was today after student teams worked for a semester on robot solutions to some of…

6 min readJun 4, 2023

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Congrats to the Farm Robotics Challenge winners!

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Walt Duflock

AgTech Startups — Let’s keep biologicals from being a dessert topping and a floor wax!

There is a lot of discussion about biological solutions in AgTech these days at trade shows and in ag media, and with good reason. The use…

4 min readApr 12, 2023

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AgTech Startups — Let’s keep biologicals from being a dessert topping and a floor wax!

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Walt Duflock

AgTech Info Consumption — pro tips on how to stay on top of everything!

I consume a lot of AgTech content. No, I’m serious, a lot lot lot of AgTech content. Podcasts, newsletters, and social media are my three…

8 min readMar 30, 2023

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Walt Duflock

10 Things I learned in February — Lessons from Toulouse, Paris, Tulare, SLO, and Santa Maria

It’s been quite a February. On January 30th, I flew from SFO to Lyon and on February 25th, I spent the second night of the month in my own…

16 min readFeb 26, 2023

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10 Things I learned in February — Lessons from Toulouse, Paris, Tulare, SLO, and Santa Maria

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Walt Duflock

Want a cautionary tale for SGMA’s acreage reduction? Look at asparagus.

When I was a young lad spending much of the year in Monterey County on my mom’s ranch and some of the summers in Imperial County on my…

7 min readFeb 26, 2023

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Want a cautionary tale for SGMA’s acreage reduction? Look at asparagus.

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Walt Duflock

Moneyball for Ag Labor — how growers think about the labor problem.

AgTech startups should think about the labor problem they are solving with some specificity, and that specificity should be around the…

9 min readFeb 23, 2023

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Moneyball for Ag Labor — how growers think about the labor problem.

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Walt Duflock

AgTech Startups — work with channel partners is never done — never ever ever.

I wanted to pass along a recent story on AgTech automation partnerships. It is a reminder that AgTech channel partners are a great…

13 min readFeb 20, 2023

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AgTech Startups — work with channel partners is never done — never ever ever.

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Walt Duflock

AgTech Startups — include machine logistics in your economic analysis

One of the things that is becoming apparent as the number of automation solutions on farms continues to increase is that there is a hidden…

7 min readFeb 19, 2023

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AgTech Startups — include machine logistics in your economic analysis

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Walt Duflock

Image Library — Phase 1 launch coming into view!

I mentioned the Western Growers Image Library in a prior post announcing the first two components of the Tech Stack to help AgTech…

10 min readFeb 18, 2023

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Image Library — Phase 1 launch coming into view!

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Why is nobody in AgTech building a grower data aggregation model with a rev share for growers??

AgTech entrepreneurs — are grower-backed data aggregation startups or venture-backed startups the better play for data aggregation and…

6 min readFeb 17, 2023

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Why is nobody in AgTech building a grower data aggregation model with a rev share for growers??

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Walt Duflock

Walt Duflock

VP of Innovation at Western Growers | 5th-generation family farm | 25 years at high-growth SV startups | helped build #1 AgriFood Accelerator

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