Roxanne Jones: I was at a conference in Utah with Fall Line Capital, our venture fund, who owns 100 and something thousand acres of farmland. She says farmers are taking climate change concerns "very seriously" There's an urgency in trying to understand and react to this data, she says.Jones: Farming is about long term adjusting to the cycles over time. But there's a healthy process of understanding the data and reacting to it over time.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Devon Wright to talk about moving from a boat to the country (4:00), starting agricultural and water tech startup Lumo (7:15), inventing a smart valve (11:40), quitting his old job (15:50), his previous companies (17:50), being in a band (20:30), coming to Silicon Valley (25:20), how farmers view drought and extreme weather (28:00), making water systems more efficient (36:40), pitching investors (40:00), and his worst day (41:30).
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