What happens when a farmer only gets 50 chances in a lifetime to get it right?
That’s the reality of agriculture, and why most tech startups designing tools for farmers don’t fully understand the stakes.
In this episode of Tomorrow’s Bites, we sit down with Thomas Gent, third-generation UK farmer and founder of Gentle Farming, to explore how technology can support, accelerate, or even hinder the transition to regenerative agriculture. From early no-till experiments to hosting AI-powered sprayers and carbon monitoring systems on his farm, Thomas shares what works (and what doesn’t) when tech meets soil.
We explore:
- Why most agtech tools are built without talking to farmers, and why that’s a huge problem
- How startups can build solutions that actually support regenerative transitions
- Why time-saving tech is more valuable than data overload
- The hidden cost of complexity in scaling agroforestry and biodiversity
- Whether AI can really help decision-making on regenerative farms
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