{"id":6180,"date":"2014-12-21T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6180"},"modified":"2014-12-21T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T13:45:38","slug":"tech-investors-plowing-money-into-future-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6180","title":{"rendered":"Tech investors plowing money into future farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2025258312_agtechfuturexml.html\">Heather Somerville<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Silicon Valley is pushing its way into every stage of the food-growing process, from tech tycoons buying up farmland to startups selling robots that work the fields to hackathons dedicated to building the next farming app.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;\u201cThe food sector is wasteful and inefficient,\u201d said Ali Partovi, a Bay Area investor with large stakes in sustainable agriculture startups. \u201cSilicon Valley has a hubris that says, \u2018That\u2019s stupid. Let\u2019s change it.\u2019?\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;The booming activity around the so-called ag-tech sector has led experts to predict that its growth, in terms of the number of new startups and venture-capital investments, will in another five or so years outpace today\u2019s hottest technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Somerville: Silicon Valley is pushing its way into every stage of the food-growing process, from tech tycoons buying up farmland to startups selling robots that work the fields to hackathons dedicated to building the next farming app.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThe food sector is wasteful and inefficient,\u201d said Ali Partovi, a Bay Area investor with large stakes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}