https://minutesof.com/on/agriculture/ Everyone on the record about agriculture: 50 verbatim quotes from 3 people, October 2011 to May 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:17:57 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/b3534b4c-5ec2-4aed-bd9d-ac0a10284774/ https://minutesof.com/q/b3534b4c-5ec2-4aed-bd9d-ac0a10284774/ “It's a family owned business based out of Wichita founded in 1940 by Fred Koch with businesses ranging from energy, agriculture, chemicals, building products, consumer products, even cloud computing, and a very active minority investment portfolio a 120,000 plus employees, that statistic might be off across 60 countries.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 12 May 2026 21:17:30 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/33873ee8-2cc4-464e-a48c-1ea71f67d753/ https://minutesof.com/q/33873ee8-2cc4-464e-a48c-1ea71f67d753/ “Do think we have a path to fixing agriculture in this country? And how do we get farmers back on track where they can earn a living without requiring checks from the government?” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:21 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/33873ee8-2cc4-464e-a48c-1ea71f67d753/ https://minutesof.com/q/33873ee8-2cc4-464e-a48c-1ea71f67d753/ “Do think we have a path to fixing agriculture in this country? And how do we get farmers back on track where they can earn a living without requiring checks from the government?” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:21 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/e5558aec-c7d5-4336-b449-401891cecc6f/ https://minutesof.com/q/e5558aec-c7d5-4336-b449-401891cecc6f/ “I've heard reports that the vast majority of US farms lost money. You're on the senate ag committee, which is why I'm asking this.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:21 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/e735e4b8-dfdf-498c-8b49-2f567621cac0/ https://minutesof.com/q/e735e4b8-dfdf-498c-8b49-2f567621cac0/ “I was really convinced that building software for agriculture could work and should be the future, and we should do that.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/659a98ec-9ff5-4433-bfea-37d6e1cf79d4/ https://minutesof.com/q/659a98ec-9ff5-4433-bfea-37d6e1cf79d4/ “Agriculture, I tell people, is difficult because you have a seasonal cycle, you only get to sell once a year. You don't know until the end of the year how it's going.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/659a98ec-9ff5-4433-bfea-37d6e1cf79d4/ https://minutesof.com/q/659a98ec-9ff5-4433-bfea-37d6e1cf79d4/ “Agriculture, I tell people, is difficult because you have a seasonal cycle, you only get to sell once a year. You don't know until the end of the year how it's going.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/2174c653-5de3-4db2-bd17-e4b7a45c926c/ https://minutesof.com/q/2174c653-5de3-4db2-bd17-e4b7a45c926c/ “I think if you ask people that work in and around the industry, a lot of people call the acquisition of Climate by Monsanto because they paid $1,100,000,000.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/1eb2c09d-99cc-406d-92fb-38c5f2d792f3/ https://minutesof.com/q/1eb2c09d-99cc-406d-92fb-38c5f2d792f3/ “And I think 80% of harvesters and tractors in The US have an iPad that runs that software, and it's connected to the farm equipment.” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/904d0830-6f77-4cc1-8d6b-b48f78da9551/ https://minutesof.com/q/904d0830-6f77-4cc1-8d6b-b48f78da9551/ “And then we had the idea of charging for certain add ons, certain models. Like, it would recommend what seed to use and recommend what fertilizer to use” — David Friedberg, Venture Europe Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:21:31 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/5cc7a6b1-2956-470e-8f9e-7188d0f13e14/ https://minutesof.com/q/5cc7a6b1-2956-470e-8f9e-7188d0f13e14/ “I mean, always tell people like at Climate Corp, if you miss your sales window by a couple of days, you got to wait another year.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/54b975d3-5d60-4f9f-88cd-887e9eddc4e2/ https://minutesof.com/q/54b975d3-5d60-4f9f-88cd-887e9eddc4e2/ “So the global potato industry is about 100,000,000,000 a year. And, I'm not sure if you guys have ever visited a potato farm, but potato farm potatoes are vegetatively propagated.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:22:17 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/a26ddac8-e7b2-4624-bc7e-fc9543b743c3/ https://minutesof.com/q/a26ddac8-e7b2-4624-bc7e-fc9543b743c3/ “And with our system, you can put less than 10 grams of little tiny seed to replace that two and a half tons of potato.” — David Friedberg, This Week in Startups Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:06 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/3e22c9b5-aad7-4b56-a49f-71b3015b5208/ https://minutesof.com/q/3e22c9b5-aad7-4b56-a49f-71b3015b5208/ “They're farmed vegetatively, so you actually chop up leftover potatoes and put them back in the ground in order to grow potatoes, like Matt Damon does in The Martian.” — David Friedberg, This Week in Startups Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:06 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/7905c69f-2271-49ed-93be-91b776700e96/ https://minutesof.com/q/7905c69f-2271-49ed-93be-91b776700e96/ “We estimated a number of years ago that if you took the most modern agricultural technology, that in the world you might eliminate a half a billion jobs of what's going on in farming, subsides, etcetera.” — Jensen Huang, Milken Institute Wed, 07 May 2025 00:09:25 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/056cd829-90f2-4d02-a77a-bb16e8604da8/ https://minutesof.com/q/056cd829-90f2-4d02-a77a-bb16e8604da8/ “India, the prime minister comes and visits, brags about his 1,400,000,000 people, won't let us sell a bushel of corn. And think of the stuff they sell here. You gotta be kidding.” — Howard Lutnick, CBS Evening News Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:30 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/d5e21890-16a8-4175-90fb-d18ca0bea5f8/ https://minutesof.com/q/d5e21890-16a8-4175-90fb-d18ca0bea5f8/ “Someone quoted me this, so I'm simply stating their quote. I don't have direct data that I'm representing here, but their estimate is that the the labor cost in strawberry farming in The United States has grown from 700,000,000 a year to 2,000,000,000 a year in four years.” — David Friedberg, Seed World Group Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:06 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/01c94333-8b72-465d-927d-cb06da3261f1/ https://minutesof.com/q/01c94333-8b72-465d-927d-cb06da3261f1/ “Potato farmers today use about 10% of their harvest to replant leftover potato vegetative biomass back in the ground. That's how they're doing planting.” — David Friedberg, Seed World Group Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:06 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/4070ea99-7e29-4f6a-b1c1-bdd04098aee6/ https://minutesof.com/q/4070ea99-7e29-4f6a-b1c1-bdd04098aee6/ “So it unlocks a significant yield gain and it creates new opportunities for creating seed products in markets where it doesn't exist.” — David Friedberg, Seed World Group Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:06 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/b729cfa7-fed2-4fa8-80e6-f100123c4820/ https://minutesof.com/q/b729cfa7-fed2-4fa8-80e6-f100123c4820/ “having seen how turning certain genes on or off in a plant can extraordinarily expand the productivity of that plant and increase farmers' yields by 50% per acre, by just turning a gene off.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/32e41965-e71c-4cce-9c70-fcdf24710592/ https://minutesof.com/q/32e41965-e71c-4cce-9c70-fcdf24710592/ “I think the world will be surprised by how much we see acceleration and advancement in productivity in ag and food systems in the next ten years.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/093a521a-32e7-49b8-9d6c-450ccce888f2/ https://minutesof.com/q/093a521a-32e7-49b8-9d6c-450ccce888f2/ “I do think that there's gonna be some big opportunities for the next transformation in agriculture in multiplex precision gene editing, and in metagenomics in the soil microbiome, even in breakthroughs in biologics or other platforms that can discover the next set, or the next range of biologics.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/c304f051-e000-4105-9f77-a238afcbcfa2/ https://minutesof.com/q/c304f051-e000-4105-9f77-a238afcbcfa2/ “I think the world will be surprised by how much we see acceleration and advancement in productivity in ag and food systems in the next ten years.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/94ec761a-a623-4087-899e-3b23753d1e10/ https://minutesof.com/q/94ec761a-a623-4087-899e-3b23753d1e10/ “I do think that there's going be some big opportunities for the next transformation in agriculture in multiplex precision gene editing and in, metagenomics in the soil microbiome, even in breakthroughs in biologics or other platforms that can discover the next, set or the next range of biologics.” — David Friedberg, Future of Agriculture Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:49:00 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/c35066bc-ebda-44aa-840b-23d33e7d5c7c/ https://minutesof.com/q/c35066bc-ebda-44aa-840b-23d33e7d5c7c/ “Of that 30,000,000,000 acres, 15,000,000,000 are where we grow stuff. 3,000,000,000 is crops, 12,000,000,000 is animals.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/4cc02cdd-3e86-435e-ac62-521a0e650d71/ https://minutesof.com/q/4cc02cdd-3e86-435e-ac62-521a0e650d71/ “we've still been farming Russet Burbank in The US for a hundred plus years. That's a hundred year old variety.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/e0705c10-5935-4a15-a0f6-69e92ec84ce0/ https://minutesof.com/q/e0705c10-5935-4a15-a0f6-69e92ec84ce0/ “And so we started to do it, and the results were incredible. We saw 50 to a 100% plus gain in yield in the offspring.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/d894ae8d-3ab8-4c2f-baab-4b6191dce008/ https://minutesof.com/q/d894ae8d-3ab8-4c2f-baab-4b6191dce008/ “by the year 2050, the UN estimates we'll need to increase global food production by north of 50%. So the way we're doing that is we're eating into the Amazon.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/ef95f8df-6c0b-4724-a4cc-781f6efaeb71/ https://minutesof.com/q/ef95f8df-6c0b-4724-a4cc-781f6efaeb71/ “So the industrialization of agriculture has largely supported these crises and and resolved these crises for humanity, but the industrialization of agriculture has also driven us into a higher carbon footprint, a higher energy footprint, a higher land footprint.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/ef95f8df-6c0b-4724-a4cc-781f6efaeb71/ https://minutesof.com/q/ef95f8df-6c0b-4724-a4cc-781f6efaeb71/ “So the industrialization of agriculture has largely supported these crises and and resolved these crises for humanity, but the industrialization of agriculture has also driven us into a higher carbon footprint, a higher energy footprint, a higher land footprint.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/f8638f62-d85b-495d-9c68-7a65370dd6d4/ https://minutesof.com/q/f8638f62-d85b-495d-9c68-7a65370dd6d4/ “If you're delivering an incremental $30 an acre of profit to a farmer, can you charge them $10 an acre for that product or service you're offering them to help them get there?” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/ece156a0-d235-477b-9399-0a41ba9e4070/ https://minutesof.com/q/ece156a0-d235-477b-9399-0a41ba9e4070/ “I generally think that ag products should be built and priced on a value creation system. So, you know, this is the Monsanto pricing model.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/baf35549-0c4d-4b0f-a0c5-47bf90823f88/ https://minutesof.com/q/baf35549-0c4d-4b0f-a0c5-47bf90823f88/ “the global potato industry is about a $100,000,000,000 a year. And, I'm not sure if you guys have ever visited a potato farm, but potato farm potatoes are vegetatively propagated.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/1dbb8a12-9e95-4f3a-a52e-c70b75b166af/ https://minutesof.com/q/1dbb8a12-9e95-4f3a-a52e-c70b75b166af/ “So the global potato industry is about a $100,000,000,000 a year. And, I'm not sure if you guys have ever visited a potato farm, but potato farm potatoes are vegetatively propagated.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/1b146856-26de-47a2-b5fe-f166e963b610/ https://minutesof.com/q/1b146856-26de-47a2-b5fe-f166e963b610/ “So the global potato industry is about a $100,000,000,000 a year. And, I'm not sure if you guys have ever visited a potato farm, but potato farm potatoes” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/1b287b58-ce9b-49bd-a830-5f64f9cbe4e6/ https://minutesof.com/q/1b287b58-ce9b-49bd-a830-5f64f9cbe4e6/ “But you don't have to make the trade offs like you do in plant breeding today, where you give up other good traits in order to try and stack those two traits together.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/bbe57580-4923-47c6-97e9-f7e5f30a9cbc/ https://minutesof.com/q/bbe57580-4923-47c6-97e9-f7e5f30a9cbc/ “In the last two years since COVID, we've unfortunately seen a reversal in global malnutrition statistics. You know, we were at 600,000,000 people, living on less than 1,500 calories a day just before COVID.” — David Friedberg, How I Invest Podcast Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:38:21 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/9a7bca85-7508-4cb5-80be-fedbe5e1e5ad/ https://minutesof.com/q/9a7bca85-7508-4cb5-80be-fedbe5e1e5ad/ “And then seeing this outcome that we had theorized, all of that has now been proven with this business.” — David Friedberg, How I Invest Podcast Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:38:21 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/48dc1a48-e4c5-4e22-8a9e-1b078e86d225/ https://minutesof.com/q/48dc1a48-e4c5-4e22-8a9e-1b078e86d225/ “And in The Us while the average is one seventy five, there are farmers who regularly get over 300 bushels.” — David Friedberg, How I Invest Podcast Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:38:21 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/3d2c8fe7-1565-4dbb-a7ab-f8df9ce0bd93/ https://minutesof.com/q/3d2c8fe7-1565-4dbb-a7ab-f8df9ce0bd93/ “Now the efficiency of this system was nine times more efficient than corn, is what they demonstrated.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/dd01dd55-c59d-49dd-b229-1c7c48e1de25/ https://minutesof.com/q/dd01dd55-c59d-49dd-b229-1c7c48e1de25/ “75%, 80% of calories is rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, and soybeans. Okay? Those are significant biomass crops.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/cab6a373-c11d-4571-bdff-bc9a31488c99/ https://minutesof.com/q/cab6a373-c11d-4571-bdff-bc9a31488c99/ “And so the hit rate for biologicals one point zero in the way that they were being sold in the traditional input cycle inputs model, not very good.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/20da4821-b76a-410b-9652-08afd920f9ca/ https://minutesof.com/q/20da4821-b76a-410b-9652-08afd920f9ca/ “Farmers want to pay for value. I want to pay for ROI. I want to spend $8 and get $60 back.” — David Friedberg, AgFunder Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:03:03 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/10b68639-5792-40ec-89f5-476ded2a84be/ https://minutesof.com/q/10b68639-5792-40ec-89f5-476ded2a84be/ “To make a gram of animal protein, or let's say like 100 calories of animal protein, it takes 3,000 calories of energy into a system to make that animal protein.” — David Friedberg, The Julia La Roche Show Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:21:04 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/820fb0ae-80d8-4ebe-afab-1a980f89d97c/ https://minutesof.com/q/820fb0ae-80d8-4ebe-afab-1a980f89d97c/ “120,000,000 acres of farmland that could be reduced and returned back to the natural ecosystems that we would stop using to grow all this stuff.” — David Friedberg, My First Million Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:57:55 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/017f2322-298d-4ff6-8a08-27c80f80cb78/ https://minutesof.com/q/017f2322-298d-4ff6-8a08-27c80f80cb78/ “120,000,000 acres of farmland that could be reduced and returned back to the natural ecosystems that we would stop using to grow all this stuff. So that's our long term incentive, right?” — David Friedberg, My First Million Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:57:55 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/979e528d-00e0-448b-880b-f8ca9b043e9a/ https://minutesof.com/q/979e528d-00e0-448b-880b-f8ca9b043e9a/ “Those small variations occur to 40% of farmers. So 40% of our farmers getting some money back at the end of the season” — David Friedberg, Stanford eCorner Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:24:09 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/0c9f4a2b-4c7c-46e2-8920-9c423da0cd89/ https://minutesof.com/q/0c9f4a2b-4c7c-46e2-8920-9c423da0cd89/ “Our product costs $40 an acre. There is $6,000,000,000 of revenue we are going after and our close rate is very, very high.” — David Friedberg, Stanford eCorner Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:24:09 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/ce213a33-a25e-4941-909e-e0c91a2145b2/ https://minutesof.com/q/ce213a33-a25e-4941-909e-e0c91a2145b2/ “There is 160,000,000 acres of corn and soybeans planted just in the Midwest Of The United States. Our product costs $40 an acre. There is $6,000,000,000 of revenue we are going after” — David Friedberg, Stanford eCorner Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:24:09 +0000 agriculture https://minutesof.com/q/483edc06-6c0e-4571-aa52-8bead1146740/ https://minutesof.com/q/483edc06-6c0e-4571-aa52-8bead1146740/ “So years later when I was at Google, I came back to this idea about sort of all the world's businesses affected by the weather, maybe there is something they can do about it” — David Friedberg, Stanford eCorner Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:24:09 +0000 agriculture