Several times these past few weeks, I have seen a quote attributed to John F. Kennedy that is used to correlate to our current global pandemic. “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity,” Kennedy said. The quote is from a speech the president presented to the United […]
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Illogical Criticism of our Heroes
We all have our heroes in life. We generally define that term in categories—courage, perhaps from a family member or friend that fought a fatal disease, one’s nobility is a trait I relate with an individual’s character and finally, an outstanding achievement. For the sake of this conversation, let’s focus on the latter. President Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Henry Ford, and […]
There’s a Change Coming
Randy Krotz CEO AgWiki, Inc. By now, we are all confident of our ability to determine the tone of a coronavirus article within the first few words. I have noticed one of three general categories in most of what I read. First, writers speak to an excess of government control and intervention. Second, politicians, either right, left, or all-inclusive, are […]
Who Benefits When Farmers Defend Technology?
by Randy Krotz – CEO AgWiki, INC. Individuals and organizations are using our current health crisis to manipulate public opinion regarding how food is grown and raised. Perhaps it would be helpful to reflect on how agriculture deals with consumers’ interpretation of food production and why this pandemic is an opportunity for outreach. The first significant effort of orchestrating the […]
The Future of AgTech
“We’ve created everything there is to create.” ~ The Fool
But I will say that everything we have created has been done so in silos (ag pun intended), and it’s stored there as well. We have come a very long way since the days of Post-It notes, Microsoft Access, and the TRS-80.
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