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Business Model Innovation Meat

FeaturedByjanettebarnard20June 24, 2021February 22, 2022

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Prime Future 57: The packers get Standard Oil’d. Then what?

This is neither political commentary or prediction. This is a look at the hypothetical implications of a hypothetical scenario that has a zero percent...

D2C

FeaturedByjanettebarnard20March 21, 2020March 10, 2021

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A D2C Revolution Is On Its Way

ButcherBox is the first of many D2C plays in animal protein.

AgTech Animal AgTech Developing economies Markets

Byjanettebarnard20March 30, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 145: What would Norman say?

Ugh. That was my reaction when my book club chose a book about life in a Mumbai slum called, ironically, behind the beautiful forevers. We...

Animal AgTech Innovation

Byjanettebarnard20March 20, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 144: Goliath’s big fat feet.

It’s the most chaotic time of the year in the US for college basketball fans, with the NCAA tournament in full swing. Aka March...

Animal AgTech

Byjanettebarnard20March 13, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 143: What if it doesn’t work?

97% of why I work out at Orange Theory Fitness is their tech system: a connected heart rate monitor that feeds into a leaderboard...

Animal AgTech Venture Capital

Byjanettebarnard20March 6, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 142: Is animal agtech venture viable?

When I started writing this newsletter in 2020, if you had asked me what I’d be doing in 2023, I would have told you...

AgTech Artificial Intelligence Genetics

Byjanettebarnard20February 27, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 141: 7 acres —> 1 takeaway

The hosts of my favorite podcast, Acquired, talk about the idea that actual tech enablement always shows up in a company’s P&L, whether in the form of...

Meat Meat retail

Byjanettebarnard20February 20, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 140: Flip retained ownership on its tail.

Just for giggles, let’s play a game. Imagine a world in which packers borrowed the retained ownership model and applied it to the meat...

Leadership

Byjanettebarnard20February 13, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 139: Working Genius

If you’ve been around here very long, you know my obsession with this idea from Allen Nation: “The innovative farmer is seen by his farm neighbors...

Leadership Supply Chain

Byjanettebarnard20February 6, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 138: The future is fiercely collaborative.

This week we throwback to Prime Future 68 as a welcome to new followers & as the setup for next week. There’s a local ranching family...

Emerging Tech Funding Venture Capital

Byjanettebarnard20January 30, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 137: It’s time to call it, farm mgmt software was a wash.

Riddle me this: What do you call a category of companies that raised a ton of venture capital and, a decade later, had not one...

Meat

Byjanettebarnard20January 23, 2023April 11, 2023

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Prime Future 136: 1975 should call the pork people

Does the name H.A. Etling mean anything to you? Me neither, until recently. What about Certified Angus Beef, does that ring a bell? Of course. We’ve looked at...