R2Kast 179 - Sam Watson-Jones on Small Robot Company, Per Plant Precision and Nuffield

R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

English - February 23, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 67 MB
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Business, drones and…robots?!

Today we welcome someone who I wrote about during my masters a fair old bit!

Sam Watson-Jones started the Small Robot Company. A business aimed at creating a system where per plant farming can treat a field as a million plants instead of a field. This means less requirements for chemical and fertiliser, just where and when it’s required…think of it as a very specific variable rate technology! This month unfortunately SRC had to go into liquidation with various investors seeing it as being to far ahead of the rest of the market as is.

Sam is now deducting his Nuffield scholarship to per plant precision!

Very interesting chat with someone I’ve been a massive fan of for some time!

Enjoy!

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