
What agricultural technology adoption actually requires
The question is rarely whether a technology works. It is whether it survives the month after the project vehicle stops arriving.
Reflections on agriculture, technology, education and the decisions that connect these worlds.

The question is rarely whether a technology works. It is whether it survives the month after the project vehicle stops arriving.

In 2018 I arrived in the United States as an intern on a swine farm. In 2023 I returned to work on the program that had sent me. The view is different from each side.

Every certification scheme adds indicators. Almost none of them remove any. Somebody at the end of the chain absorbs that cost, and it is usually the person with the least capacity to absorb it.