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Josh Siteman 🇨🇦
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Business. All business. I think?

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Mature capitalism creates a strange tension in ag: any new idea must outperform the old system on the old system’s terms. Match the price, match the workflow, disturb nothing. It’s a quiet way of ensuring the future never quite arrives.

AgFunder got me thinking...
#AgTech #ClimateResilience
Guest article: Making the business case for sustainable agriculture through ag biologicals
Most investors classify ag biologicals within the broader agtech basket. It's time to frame them within more suitable contexts.
agfundernews.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Funny sh*t I heard... And the prize for Most Improved Beauty Contestant goes to… 👀

It'd be hilarious if anybody actually knew what I'm talking about. Any guesses? Happy to drop bread crumbs in a thread if anyone is interested in playing along.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Climate volatility is disrupting the very plants our medicines rely on. Controlled environments offer a path from fragile supply chains to local, high-purity medicinal production.
Our latest piece explores this shift:

#Agritech #Biotech #ControlledEnvironment #MedicinalPlants #PhytoPharma
Cultivating Health: Why the Future of Medicine Will Be Grown Indoors
When Climate Becomes the Variable, Control Becomes the Cure
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
$66M for an ag/food-tech park is headline news. But what I watch most: who builds the skills, who defines the metrics, and who sustains the ecosystem once the ribbon is cut. That’s where CEA and resilience meet reality.
@ceaalys.bsky.social @agricology.bsky.social

#AgTech #CEA #FoodSecurity
Newberry announces $66 million investment in AgFoodTech park
First of two industrial hydroponic greenhouses from Harvest Singularity to open in 2027.
www.mainstreetdailynews.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Everyone celebrates ‘models for indoor ag,’ but the real question is: what mechanisms actually move the field forward? Long-term R&D, water-efficient design, and transparent performance data—not regional hype—determine what scales.
#AgTech #CEA #WaterScarcity #ClimateResilience
Does Virginia’s indoor ag success provide a model for the future?
Virginia’s indoor agriculture sector is taking root thanks to a three-pronged strategy to attract talent into the state
www.agtechnavigator.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Ag tech isn’t bottlenecked by innovation—it’s bottlenecked by adoption. California’s new $15M, 9-hub network is a reminder that tools aren’t enough. Farmers need proof, training, and trust. If we’re not solving for deployment, we’re not solving the problem.
#agtech
Breaking the Ag Tech Bottleneck - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST
California is sowing the seeds of innovation with a new statewide partnership called the California AgTech Alliance, a $15 million initiative designed to fast-track agricultural technology from lab to...
www.aginfo.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain - why he did not instantly disappear.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Intravision is proud to partner with the world-leading plant science team at the University of Guelph.

Together, we’re building frontier tools for the future of agriculture—from Photosystem Chambers™ to the GravityFlow™ vertical farm.

Science-led. Systems-built.

#AgTech #CEA #Intravision
Mike Dixon, Thomas Graham, Youbin Zheng - Synergy Award for Innovation - NSERC
NSERC - Synergy Award for Innovation - Mike Dixon, Thomas Graham, Youbin Zheng
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Gwiingwiish — Ojibway for Blue Jay — fights with courage, loyalty, and smarts. A trickster at heart, it wins with awareness, not arrogance.

Go @bluejays.com — be bold in the box, fearless on the field, sharp enough to outthink and outplay. 💙⚾️ #gojays
Kier Atkinson 🇨🇦 (@kieratkinson)
The Ojibwe word for blue jay is gwiingwiish (pronounced gweeng-gweesh). Haida art by Glen Rabena.
substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
BREAKING: Hungary explodes with MASSIVE protests against Russian-backed Orban government. Peter Magyar is demolishing Orban in the polls and if there’s a free election, Putin loses his puppet. Protesters flooding streets openly defying Orban and Putin demanding an end to authoritarianism.
Really American (@reallyamerican)
BREAKING: Hungary explodes with MASSIVE protests against Russian-backed Orban government. Peter Magyar is demolishing Orban in the polls and if there’s a free election, Putin loses his puppet. Protest...
substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.
October 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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BREAKING

In a surprising trend, MAGA supporters by the thousands are demolishing the East sides of their houses.
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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One of the reasons I love retro-SF futures is because they speak to this increasing trend of turning shit off and disconnecting devices. When AWS goes down and bricks your bed, fridge, and thermostat, the appeal of analog is keenly felt.

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/th...
The return of dumb things: Why young people are ditching their smartphones for MP3 players and digital cameras
Young people are using dumb phones, MP3 players and digital cameras in lieu of iPhones. Experts explain why.
www.yahoo.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good one. "I did not have 'Demolished the East Wing' on my bingo card. Man, remember when Obama wore a tan suit?"
Paul Wells (@paulwells)
I did not have “Demolished the East Wing” on my bingo card. Man, remember when Obama wore a tan suit?
substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"my generation was connected by wires yours is connected by code".

- @mark-carney.bsky.social
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room with a painting on the wall
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room with a painting on the wall
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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This is kind of nuts
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Seeing a crack of light. Canada’s pivot from U.S. reliance, a promise to double non-U.S. exports and right the ship. We’re not out of the woods yet — but maybe, just maybe, we’re moving toward something better. 💪🤞

www.reuters.com/world/americ...
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Carney’s plan feels like tough medicine—cuts, change, and hope. Maybe, just maybe, this is the reset Canada’s been needing. 💪🇨🇦🤞
Carney says Canada should prepare for ‘sacrifices’ as he outlines plan for budget | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians should be ready for some “challenges” and “sacrifices” in a speech outlining some of his government’s priorities for the upcoming budget.
www.cbc.ca
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ecorobotix just pulled a $150M round to scale AI-powered “plant-by-plant” spraying. Precision is scaling,
#notjusthype #PrecisionAg #AgTechEvolution
Swiss agtech startup Ecorobotix lands €129.3M
Switzerland-based Ecorobotix raises €129.3M Series C and D rounds to advance its AI-based Plant-by-Plant agriculture technology.
siliconcanals.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Italy’s Maia Ventures is putting real capital behind agtech again — launching a €55M fund with focus on health, efficiency & resilience. Not hype: impact + domain depth.
#AgTech #ImpactInvesting
Breaking: Italy's Maia Ventures launches $64m agrifood fund backed by EIF and others
Maia will support early-stage food and ag ventures addressing health, resilience, and efficiency in the food system.
agfundernews.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Agtech is finally maturing. The hype has burned off, leaving room for grounded innovation — not moonshots, but meaningful systems. Real impact lies where biology meets engineering, not spreadsheets.
#AgTech #Innovation #ClimateResilience
Agtech sector begins to emerge from "destructive cycle" -
The new wave of agtech startups are more savvy, more grounded and more niche than the hyped companies of previous years and it's "a great time to invest", say corporate VCs.
globalventuring.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM