Prime Future

Animal AgTech

Byjanettebarnard20June 28, 2020March 10, 2021

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Why?

10 weeks into writing the weekly Prime Future newsletter, I’ve been wrestling with the where-are-we-going-with-this questions like, who am I really writing for and...

Uncategorized

Byjanettebarnard20June 18, 2020March 10, 2021

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Tired of being a price taker? Build a moat.

The livestock & poultry industry has spent decades driving cost out of animal production systems to increase profit. And we’ve done it well. Really...

Funding

Byjanettebarnard20May 2, 2020March 10, 2021

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How to Bring Sexy Back to Animal Ag Innovation

Kerryann Kocher, Principal at Rock Road Consulting, recently presented this content to highlight the need for innovation in animal agriculture and ways the industry...

Processing

Byjanettebarnard20April 29, 2020March 10, 2021

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Can robots save the meat industry?

Robotics are poised to transform farming, why not meat processing?

D2C

Byjanettebarnard20April 25, 2020June 4, 2020

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The real reason packers should go all in on D2C

Hypothesis: Direct to Consumer (D2C) business models will be a high growth sales channel for all meat & poultry companies within 5 years. And...

D2C

Byjanettebarnard20March 23, 2020March 10, 2021

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Capturing the D2C Market: Farmers vs Packers

The D2C market will grow rapidly; will farmers or processors win this game?

D2C

Byjanettebarnard20March 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.

Uncategorized

Byjanettebarnard20March 12, 2020March 10, 2021

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Agriculture’s next AI: Augmenting Innovation

“For startups, 2010 – 2020 was about disrupting, 2020 – 2030 will be about augmenting. Its saying here’s what you as incumbents do well,...

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Byjanettebarnard20March 11, 2020March 28, 2020

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Amazon Just Walks Out: why it matters to the meat industry

In 2018, Amazon quietly began piloting a new store format, Amazon Go. The premise was this: a shopper walks into the store, scans their...

Funding

Byjanettebarnard20February 12, 2020March 10, 2021

800

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There’s a Meat Vacuum in AgTech; how do we fill it?

$16.9B in venture funding went to agtech companies in 2018. Sensors, robotics, machine learning, CRISPR, plant based <anything>, wearable tech for livestock, and so...