Patrick Walther is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Agvisor Pro. He chats about bridging the gap between existing knowledge practitioners and the farm gate with new technology.
There is a great deal of knowledge sitting in a farmer's head that researchers never capture, and a great deal of research that never makes it back to the farm.
Patrick Walther came to Canada from Switzerland to study at the University of Manitoba and ended up doing on-farm research, which is where he saw how wide that gap is. He is now a co-founder of AGvisorPRO, a service built to connect a farmer with an expert, by video, from the field. Dan talks with him about moving to a new country to push past his comfort zone, what the gap between academia and practice looks like up close, and what it takes to start a business from scratch.
What's Inside
- Why Patrick left Switzerland for the University of Manitoba, and what he learned from it
- What "applied" research means and why it matters to a producer
- The gap he sees between academia and the farm, and who is responsible for closing it
- What AGvisorPRO does and the problem it was built to solve
- How a conversation at a trade show turned into a company
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