{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65885e0cfa5a340016e3e287/65d8e2512e226d0017b35503?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"R2Kast 179 - Sam Watson-Jones on Small Robot Company, Per Plant Precision and Nuffield","description":"<p>Business, drones and…robots?!</p><p><br></p><p>Today we welcome someone who I wrote about during my masters a fair old bit!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Sam Watson-Jones started the Small Robot Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;A business aimed at creating a system where per plant farming can treat a field as a million plants instead of a field.&nbsp;&nbsp;This means less requirements for chemical and fertiliser, just where and when it’s required…think of it as a very specific variable rate technology!&nbsp;&nbsp;This month unfortunately SRC had to go into liquidation with various investors seeing it as being to far ahead of the rest of the market as is.</p><p><br></p><p>Sam is now deducting his Nuffield scholarship to per plant precision!</p><p><br></p><p>Very interesting chat with someone I’ve been a massive fan of for some time!</p><p><br></p><p>Enjoy!&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Wallace Currie"}