This blog is about agricultural technologies that interest me personally.
I’m sharing these tools, solutions, insights, and strategies with the world for the benefit of AgTech adoption globally, and all the good it brings with it.
My attention lies on delivering value; providing a space for AgTech education.
This focus keeps my writing honest and raw, and leaves room for exploration.
If you like what I’m doing, please share it along.
- Ken
Ken Treloar (MBA, BTech, NDip)
Author, AgTech advocate, and Drone Data Technologist
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About my work
I support farmers using a toolbox of cutting-edge tech. With almost a decade of hands-on AgTech industry experience, paired with data-enabled detective work, I find the best ways to add value for clients, friends, and colleagues.
Leveraging the very best in AgTech solutions (with impressive lifetime ROI for clients) I get the most out of new-age digital solutions - and you can too!
Many of the key relationships I have with farmers, agronomists, consultants and production managers exists due to my ongoing work with an amazing South African company called, Aerobotics.
Our team supports farming operations all over the world with drone-based, cloud-based, and smartphone-based technologies powered by innovative best-in-class AI-backed analytics software solutions.
History
Growing up, my father was a superb teacher of the natural world. He was also an engineer. This meant I learnt a lot about nature and the planet. I also learnt about the built environment. How pieces fit together, and how they work.
Come to think of it, I was always curious about the way things worked. How they functioned. The moving parts that make up the whole. Where they added value, and how they were useful. How they solved problems, or entertained. Clever inventions in every shape or form (even those taken for granted by most). These would absolutely fascinate me.
MY FIRST TASTE OF FARM LIFE
I had frequent exposure to the farming world early on, with visits to family friends and their farms during each school holiday. Time well spent outdoors. Exploring, getting dirty, and learning in and with nature each day.
Milking sowing, harvesting, branding, tagging, tractors, and bumpy bakkie rides to the Co-op and back. Dawn till dusk. Animals, plants, the farm-hands, machinery, weather, water supplies, and the land.
A beautiful set of experiences, and one’s that have left an impression on me for life.
“These memories are reminders, and help me to appreciate what farmers do.”
