Worked with this team at FBN, and can't recommend them enough. Some of the best engineers I've ever known. More importantly, they're incredibly sincere and kind.
> In any case, you won't find silicon valley involving themselves with shaving of a hundredth of a percent on a tiny margin on producing glorified pig food. There are no 10x returns doing that. It's a race to the bottom.
Full disclosure, current employee.
Farmers Business Network (fbn.com) is in SV operating in this space. Farmers take on huge amounts of risk, and we're helping them better their bottom lines. We try to make them more efficient (you can spray less of X here), save the money on their inputs, and help them find better prices when they go to market.