Episode 251 | Saving Farming’s Future: How Autonomy, AI and Robots Are Solving the Global Food Crisis

Tim Bucher, Co-Founder & CEO, Agtonomy joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy podcast to discuss how autonomy, AI and robotics can solve the global food crisis. 

There is a global food shortage that is only projected to grow because of labor concerns. In 2023, over 281.6 million people in 59 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity. Autonomy, AI and robotics can solve this by ensuring that farmers can continue to farm amidst the backdrop of a severe labor shortages, rising wages and the declining interest of younger generations in farming.

Agtonomy is addressing these critical challenges in agriculture by scaling autonomy on farms in a cost efficient manner to farmers globally. 

Recorded on Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Episode Chapters

0:00 Agtonomy’s Approach to Autonomy on Farms

3:36 Tractors

4:36 Productivity Increases from Autonomy on Farms 

10:16 Attracting Farm Talent 

15:37 Deploying Autonomy on Farms

19:50 Precision Ag 

21:57 Deploying Agtonomy on Farms

25:27 Computer Vision and Sensors

29:35 The Opportunity to Deploy Autonomy on Farms

34:33 Agtonomy’s Approach to the Market

41:16 New Verticals for Agtonomy

44:51 Future of Automation on Farms

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