Prime Future

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 Alternative Meat

Byjanettebarnard20March 21, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 92: RIP plant-based meat mania

I am often asked about my view on alternative meats and the threat they pose to old fashioned, plant-fed meat. I’ve stayed away from...

AgTech

Byjanettebarnard20March 14, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 91: Red meat & venture capital don’t go together

Riddle me this: why are there multiple venture-backed poultry production companies, but zero venture-backed pork, beef, or dairy production companies? Kicking that around raises questions about potential disruption...

Leadership Supply Chain

Byjanettebarnard20March 7, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 90: The outset of a new era for meat packers & food retailers?

I’m part of a group chat titled “The Advisory Board”. We live in different parts of the country but we’ve all known each other...

AgTech

Byjanettebarnard20February 28, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 89: How could pastured poultry scale?

The US chicken industry processes ~9 billion birds each year. I can’t find good data on what percentage of that is pasture raised, but...

Animal AgTech Business Model Innovation

Byjanettebarnard20February 21, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 88: The infinite game plays on

You probably know the now infamous quote: “There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is to unbundle.”...

Animal AgTech

Byjanettebarnard20February 14, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 87: Precision livestock management, so what?

Have you ever taken a work out class at Orange Theory Fitness? I’m a recent convert, mostly because of this: The scoreboard inside Orange...

Leadership

Byjanettebarnard20February 7, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 86: Let’s not kid ourselves – 2 narratives that need to go.

A wise industry leader recently described the elaborate R&D system within their production system as having one primary purpose, to “know I’m not kidding...

Animal AgTech

Byjanettebarnard20January 31, 2022March 27, 2022

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Prime Future 85: Minimum viable management isn’t enough

If we’re gonna do this topic then we have to follow the story all the way to the end. Are you in? Last week...

Emerging Tech

Byjanettebarnard20January 17, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 83: Just a heart transplant, or a catalyst?

Today’s word is xenotransplantation, ‘the transplant into a human of an organ from a nonhuman animal’. This week a pig heart was transplanted into a...

Business Model Innovation

Byjanettebarnard20January 10, 2022March 28, 2022

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Prime Future 82: Tacos-as-a-service?

Taco Bell has been testing a subscription service: $10/month for 1 taco every day. Set aside concerns for subscribers health and the egregious assault...