Janette Barnard 🌵
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Kinda obsessed with innovation in livestock, meat, & dairy, so I write a weekly newsletter for others who are too. Expert in nothing, curious about everything.
Arizona
Joined July 2011
I'll get to some ideas on how AI might re-shape animal protein sometime soon, but first I needed to build my mental scaffolding for how AI might re-shape everything. So that's today's Prime Future topic, putting AI into big picture context:.
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I just searched for a Baxter Black gif and there isn't one available and basically that's how I know something is wrong with the world.
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Prime Future 263: The invisible hand inside the org chart. “Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”. Here's why that Munger quote matters to every single innovator in livestock, meat & dairy:.
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i dunno yall, maybe we can't have nice things because we are incapable of predicting the future without going full doomsday. Exhibit A, from the wall street journal
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I'm just over here contemplating a trip to Japan, aka building an entire trip around visiting this restaurant.
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I've gone full @ShaneAgronomy in my obsession with the book "The Wide Lens". Today, we look at one of its frameworks in the context of one of the highest profit-generating innovations in the last decade of animal ag:. beef-on-dairy.
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Got inspired by a Shane Parrish podcast episode on the power of incentives and am on the hunt for creative examples in ag, in startups, anywhere. What are the best examples you've seen of employee incentives done well?.
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There are few things in my career that bring me as much joy as connecting smart humans who can help each other with something.
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“Study grain long enough, and the world shrinks.”. That doesn’t just apply to grain; it fits like a glove for meat, poultry, and dairy. Let's talk about how global trade actually works, and just how tiny the world is.
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This is equally as wild as the AI anecdote of the AI notetaker in a mgmt meeting to discuss potentially letting an employee go, that then automatically summarized the notes of the meeting and SENT IT TO THE PERSON being discussed. Woof.
Heard a wild AI anecdote today. Investment analyst doing research on a company. Finds a piece of information that feels proprietary or hard to know. Presses the LLM for a source, "I don't have a source for this information". Presses again, "this is from board minutes of XYZ.
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My most unpopular opinion might be that I actually like big ag.
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Replace agronomist with nutritionist, and I 100% agree with this for livestock.
Will GenAI replace agronomists?. Some say yes. Entirely. One VC even stated: “The 10,000 registered crop advisors in the US are going to be replaced 100% by AI.”. I have a different perspective. I think it will replace less than 10% of agronomists and trusted advisors. AI is.
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3) One of the principal scientists on the sterile fly project had previously developed pesticides like DDT. It's interesting how this is an innovation that was the rare 100% overlap of great for the environment and great for livestock producers. And still is.
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2) One of the challenges now is scaling up production of sterile male flies. But a fair bit of capital has gone into startups producing insects for insect protein. Is @USDA talking to those startups about shifting their production to this?.
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A few thoughts after reading this fantastic primer on the history of screwworm eradication. 1) Wild that ~70 years later, the breakthrough of using radiation to sterilize male flies is still the most cost-effective way to do battle w/ screwworms.
theatlantic.com
Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease
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If you don’t have the Hamilton soundtrack on repeat on Independence Day Eve, do you even love America ?.
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RT @Ben_Invests: Hey all Nebraska startup and broader AgTech people you should absolutely come to AgTech Connect in 2.5 weeks!! @NebraskaCo….
agtechconnect.co
Celebrate Midwest's Agricultural Technology with this program in the heartland - AgTech Connect.
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they came for chicken breast, and I said nothing. they came for ground beef, and I said nothing. BUT AINT NOBODY TAKING MY COFFEE and replacing it with chickpea and yellow pea pulse no no no
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"Economists and others tend to totally miss how work actually happens in a company". this.
The view that imagines AI wiping out jobs or causing some overnight shock to the system doesn’t contemplate that companies are a made up of a series of bottlenecks. When AI accelerates work in one area, you run into a bottleneck somewhere else. As any individual workflow gets.
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So AI is going to bring the bottom percentile of workers up to mediocre, the same way time on feed brings the bottom percentile of cattle up from Select to lower Choice. Did I get that right?.
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the best "what we need from AI" framing on the interwebs.
SFTW Plus: .We want more Donnas, not Amelia Bedelias . Two topics in this week's edition . 1. Most chatbots and LLMs are passive today. They follow and respond to your questions (and they do it creatively), but they are not active (yet). They are not fundamentally changing
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