Future of Agriculture
“So what's happened in biologicals is historically input companies would try and inoculate microbes or get them to grow that they were grabbing from the environment.”
Friedberg notes DNA sequencing costs dropped from $100 million twenty years ago to $100 today, enabling new biological discovery approaches.
“Now DNA sequencing costs have gotten so cheap, right? Twenty years ago it cost $100,000,000 to sequence the human genome. Today it costs 100, and you can do it in a few hours.”