Carl Lippert

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Commodity Culture

Commodity Culture

Commodity culture is broken. Coops, Checkoffs, and Subsidies have detached the farmer from reality through weak incentive structures.

The AWS of Food

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The AWS of Food

Infrastructure as a Service, with low barriers to entry, and a focus on food and agriculture, creates the bright future for farms and food the world wants and needs.

The Farm Barbell

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The Farm Barbell

The future of agriculture is large farms producing commodities and small farms creating value added products. Startups should build penny shaving machines for scaled farms and margin capture machines for small farms.

Farm Inputs Index Fund

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Farm Inputs Index Fund

So what is the goal of the farmer when purchasing inputs? In a very specific sense it's usually something like, "I want 250 tons of soybean meal at a better price." But this is really just a reflection of one specific point in time of a

Coal Steaks and Nuclear Nuggets

Coal Steaks and Nuclear Nuggets

How do you feel about coal power? I expect it doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. It's basically boring dirty tech that society has decided it wants to be done with. Surely some people don't give two fucks but thats just how

Biological Scarcity

Biological Scarcity

In the USA crops are one of the only things we might be better at printing than dollars. 💸

The Margin You Keep

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The Margin You Keep

There are many ways to get margin. Some work better than others.

Hub & Spoke Transparency

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Hub & Spoke Transparency

How farmers experience purchasing inputs.

The Ag Inputs Love Triangle

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The Ag Inputs Love Triangle

The Ag Inputs Love Triangle Every company on the planet is working towards getting someone else’s dollars. Some provide products, some provide services. Some are value added. Some are wholesale. There’s an unlimited set of ways that this can be done but some are more popular than others.

Don't build v2 when v3 will do.

Don't build v2 when v3 will do.

Version 2 of anything is probably an “intermediate state”. Don’t build it. Build whats next instead. Let’s start out with what I am defining as an intermediate state. An intermediate state is the point between a current state and a future state. More robustly, it’s an infinite

The Future of Self-driving Cows

The Future of Self-driving Cows

You may be thinking that is one hell of a typo. But it isn’t. So let’s talk cows. Cows are kind of like dogs. Domesticated. Different personalities. Fat cows. Skinny cows. You get the drift. The main point is that we took these animals and we have integrated

We can't just blame Trade and Trump.

We can't just blame Trade and Trump.

If you’re a farmer in 2018 its totally on point to be freaking out about trade wars and Trump tweets wether it be in person or on #agtwitter [https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23agtwitter%20trade&src=typd] . It’s palpable how bad

How we might use Virtual Reality in Agriculture

How we might use Virtual Reality in Agriculture

Virtual Reality (VR) is just for gamers right? These crazy nerdy looking headsets you see on people’s faces have no practical value. Obviously. Well…. Thats probably not the case. The truth is VR might provide great new innovations for agriculture. Think of VR like the internet. It’s just