We went from food being something that everybody was pretty closely connected to just a couple generations ago to, you know, now you'll see Tik Toks where people will say, "I have a lemon tree in the yard of the house I'm renting, but I don't know if they're like edible lemons."
The idea was it would bring ground beef price down in the grocery store, and that would garner more votes. What it did was brought down the price of our calves without really having a significant impact on the price of hamburger.
There's a common phrase in agriculture that's you either import your food or you import your labor. And, you know, no one wants to be reliant on other countries for our food supply, and automation is nowhere close to replacing human labor.
How could we develop a system that produced far more protein per hectare of land at a much lower environmental impact, and can we weave those things together into a business, which is what we have done.
Energy is upstream of everything and more importantly food the the fertilizer production coming out of that region. Um and it's planting season so it's a very bad timing for the world's agricultural supply chains.
78 percent of the air around us is nitrogen gas. That's a form that plants can't use, and so they've partnered with microbes on a process called nitrogen fixation. The microbes can breathe in that nitrogen gas and turn it into a form that plants can metabolize. It's a symbiosis, a partnership that's worked for millions of years, right up until the point that humans started breeding crops to be more productive.
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