Everybody agrees that, hey, look, we started spraying all this stuff.
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We started getting all these different diseases, right?
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It's a whole combination of lifestyle and things.
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But all human beings believe, though, if we could spray less, 80 or 90 percent less of what we're doing while still killing the weeds, then everybody wins.
SPEAKER 3: SILAS MÄHNER
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Welcome back to the Clean Techies podcast, where we interview the top climate tech founders and investors to share their stories, advice and lessons when it comes to building and investing in climate.
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Each year, about 1 billion pounds of chemicals are sprayed on crops in the U.S.
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alone.
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Globally, that number is around 5.6 billion.
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Our guest today is Agtech Logic, and they are solving this problem.
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They do this by helping farmers retrofit their existing machinery with precision sprayers that use computer vision to identify weeds and spray only the weeds in a way that is concentrated enough that it kills a weed, but it doesn't overlap onto the crops.
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Today, nearly all farmers do broadcast spraying, or in other words, spraying everything.
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By implementing this tech, farmers can save a lot of money, especially on the chemicals and the water involved, and we can have a healthier produce.
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