Thanks for the response Joseph, I appreciate your perspective, but I’m also confused, because you’re the CEO of an AgTech company. I think there’s a tendency to think that “tech” necessitates computers and oodles of silicon, but it doesn’t, technology is literally defined as “the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.”

We would truly be ignorant if we continue to study science and than choose to ignore our findings for the sake of doing things traditionally. Many truly transformative technologies for agriculture will be, by your definition, “low-tech”, technologies like no-till, drip irrigation, and mixed operations, old fashion ag. That’s exactly what I’m arguing for here. That we should use our “high technologies”- computer learning and the like, to make the case for “low technology”, because the reality is, most American farmers aren’t out looking for ways to use less tech, they’re pricing drones and figuring out what kind of large equipment (like the kind available at Dawn) they can fit into the budget.