Hello and welcome back to , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down and focus on a single topic, or theme. This week we’re talking agtech, a surprisingly cool bit of the technology startup world. But and and and were not alone in their quest to take a look into agtech, we brought alone TechCrunch climate editor for the ride.

With his help we got through a number of pretty damn interesting things, including:

• to help farms secure the labor they need, and navigate the American immigration system.


• for its farming robots. And Farmwise, which last raised $14.5 million and .


• We also that could help boost farm yields while cutting carbon emissions.


• And Better Origin, which wants to . Which we had a few ideas about.

And that’s that! We’re back on Friday with our long-form, newsy episode. Thanks to everyone checking out our newest show. Oh, and don’t forget about and . They are going to rock.

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