➡ In a recent episode of the Paul Harrell program, guest Jacob Holloway, an expert in agricultural technology, discussed the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation on farming. Holloway, who has extensive experience in precision farming and robotics, expressed concerns about the ethical implications of technology adoption in farming. He highlighted the potential risk of farmers facing extinction due to automated tractors and AI, and emphasized the need for critical questioning of technology adoption in farming. Holloway also shared his experiences at various ag tech conferences and his interactions with companies developing agricultural robots.
➡ The speaker expresses concerns about Monarch Tractor, an agricultural tech company promoting electric tractors. They question the company’s motives, suspecting a political agenda due to the company’s significant media promotion and financial backing from venture capitalists and government subsidies. The speaker criticizes the push for electric tractors, arguing that it’s not practical or desired by farmers, and suggests that the venture capitalists supporting such tech have little understanding of agriculture. They also express frustration at the perceived disrespect and misunderstanding of rural communities by urban-centric tech companies.
➡ The speaker felt disrespected at a tech conference where they tried to ask questions about agricultural technology but were ignored or dismissed. They discovered that the tech industry, including companies like Google, are developing farming technology without consulting actual farmers. The speaker argues that farming problems won’t be solved by robots or AI, but by soil conservation and other scientific methods. They encourage farmers to boycott these tech companies and their conferences, as they believe the tech industry is trying to replace farmers with machines.
➡ The Paul Harrell program discusses concerns about Bill Gates buying up farmland and the potential for technology to replace farmers. The program also criticizes the Monarch Tractor company, suggesting that their products are faulty and their business practices are unethical. The program argues that this technology is not designed to help farmers, but to control them and collect data on their farms. The host believes that farmers prefer older, simpler equipment that they can maintain themselves.
➡ Farmers prefer older equipment because they can fix it themselves, unlike the new digital equipment. The new technology, pushed by tech companies and governments, is often unreliable and difficult for farmers to repair. These companies are not interested in working with farmers, and their products may not be as advanced as they claim. The push for this technology seems to be more about profit than helping farmers or the environment.
➡ The speaker criticizes a new agricultural technology, comparing it to a Roomba with limited functionality. They express concern about the technology being pushed onto dairy farms and warn about the potential dangers. The speaker also promotes a CBD product and discusses a web of connections between Hollywood celebrities, Jeffrey Epstein, and the agricultural technology industry. They end by urging various parties, including the USDA and President Trump, to reconsider their support for this technology.
➡ The speaker criticizes the tech industry, particularly in the Bay Area, for monopolizing artificial intelligence (AI) and not considering its impact on the rest of society. They express concern about the lack of public understanding and access to AI, and the potential for it to replace jobs. The speaker also condemns the idea of AI becoming a new ‘god’, and invites listeners to continue the conversation online.

And welcome to the Millstone Report. Happy Friday. This portion of the Millstone Report brought to you by redvivehealth.org Paul we’ll tell you more about that here in just a moment. Yesterday for the Paul Harrell program, I sat down once again with Jacob Holloway and we discussed agricultural AI tyranny. And what follows is that conversation. Enjoy the Paul Harrell playground here. Welcome to the show, folks. This is the Paul Harrell program. Really appreciate you guys being with us. We got a, this is the first Paul Harrell program of 2025, believe it or not. And that’s crazy because you and I, Jacob Holloway, we were going to be doing this, I think in January and we didn’t, we didn’t get to it, but we, we’ve got a, we’ve got a terrific show for you guys today.

We’re going to be talking once again to, to Jacob Holloway. He’s been our guest on the last few that we would have been, you know, in November, December. Jacob Holloway is a recognized. One second. Yeah, okay. Sorry about that little technical difficulty. Jacob Holloway is a recognized international expert and leader in agricultural technology, precision farming, robotics for controlled environmental agriculture, deep rooted background in agricultural extension and rural farming. Jacob dedicated his career to bridging the gap between traditional farming practices and the latest advancements in automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. We’re going to talk about that here in a minute.

Is the American farmer about to face extinction at the hands of automated tractors and artificial intelligence? He’s got extensive experience in gis. You’ll have to tell me what that is later, Jacob. Remote sensing, agricultural automation. Jacob’s worked in biotech, agronomy, IT sectors. He’s got a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics and agribe business from the University of Arkansas, followed by a graduate degree in agricultural science from Arkansas State University and agricultural extension from New Mexico State University. And it says here you later expanded your expertise into geopatial analytics. Did I pronounce that right? Geospatial analytics. Yeah, geospatial, okay.

Analytics, precision agriculture, AI driven automation. And you earned his third, your third master’s in information systems from Harding University. So today you’re now a tech startup founder. You’re based out of Atlanta. The people that have seen this before know who you are because you’ve been on the show before. But I think there’s going to be other people watching the show today as a result of this. So, Jacob Holloway, welcome back, sir. We appreciate it. Yeah, glad to be here, Paul. And a very important and timely topic Given all the advancements going on in technology. And it’s kind of hard to keep up with everything that’s really hitting us right now.

And I think it’s really important to talk about this because it’s going to affect our farmers. And here we are in Arkansas. This is a, you know, a rural farming community and region. Agriculture is the backbone of our culture here in Arkansas. And so it’s very important for our people and for all the farmers in the United States. And I felt moved to come here today to talk about it. Okay, so when I think about, you know, farmers facing extinction as we know it, this is what, this is now trending. You said it was trending. It was trending for me earlier.

I saw this earlier in the week. But people are wondering, somebody named Declaration of Memes over on X, how close are we to this? Obviously that’s not real. Okay, that’s obviously computer generated image there. But you know, we’ve seen. I’ve seen enough. I’ve seen enough science fiction, I’ve seen enough Skynet, you know, Terminator. To know like that to me is like chilling. I don’t want that. The only thing that could be worse than that is if they had guns. So, yeah, and that’s going to be a huge issue in robotics. But, you know, here I come today as an ag tech whistleblower on behalf of the farmers, behalf of all the people who work in agriculture, and on behalf of scientists and technologists who are trying to help farmers adopt technology.

Because I think we’re at an influx, we’re at a period where we really need to critically question the ethics of technology adoption in farming. And ethically speaking, I think that we’re going to reach a point where, you know, there are certain people in this country, there are certain groups in this country that have access to all the technology and robotics and AI that are being developed right now. That is not here in Arkansas, obviously, and that is not in the hands of farmers. And unfortunately, what I have witnessed through all of my research and time, going to multiple conferences and you can put some pictures up there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to do this. Let’s actually go there. So I’ve got this. So I’ve been traveling the world for years, for decades really. But Even recently, since 2019, I’ve been going to many different conferences. Let me see here. I want to, I want to get on with you. Here’s, here’s this one. We throw this up on the screen. Yeah, this one’s pretty benign. This is me in Hanover, Germany, at an ag tech conference. I’m actually, I’m trying out one of the new biofuel tractors out there, which was really interesting. Okay, I’m glad we’re starting here.

Let me see. We have. This was. When was this? This was November. Before last. I was in Hanover, Germany for a huge conference called Agri Technica. And right there, that’s a company called Roboti, and that’s one of their robotic tractor prototypes. Wow. I’m not a tractor. I’m so much more. I am robot. Yeah. And actually these guys, I really like these guys. They’re one of the few companies that I’ve met in the ag tech sphere that’s, you know, I would say more ethical. This particular conference that I’ve been to twice happens in San Francisco once a year.

Going on right now. Yeah. So this is why it’s relevant, because this, this conference, world. The World Agri Tech Innovation Summit, you were there last year and the year before last. Okay. And it’s just now kicked off, I think a couple of days ago. Yeah, it’s ongoing right now. And so. And I think this is kind of. Well, as I was talking to you offline, I’d like for you to just kind of tell us basically, like, when did this all start for you? Because I’m just going to summarize and you fill in the gaps. You went to these conferences, you started asking about Monarch tractors.

Correct. And you didn’t like the answers you were getting? Yeah, well, and I want to use them as an example of what’s going on, what not to do in ag tech adoption, because, you know, it started really in 2019. I went to Toulouse, France, for the first. One of the first international agricultural robotics conferences in the world. And I was one of two American scientists that were there to look at the technology that was coming out in 2019. I looked at all these agricultural robots and I said, you know, this is interesting. Looks cool for Europe.

I’m excited to see when this might hit the shores of the U.S. what Ag robots are going to look like here in the United States. And then, of course, that was December 2019. Of course, we know what happened in 2020. I did not get to go to the conference that year. And it was not until 2022 when this conference called the FIRA, or the International Forum for Agricultural Robotics, had their first inaugural conference in Fresno, California, in the United States. Of course, I was there. It was a big conference. It was indoors, and there was a lot of agricultural technology companies there.

And, you know, and at the time I was very excited. You know, I met a lot of different people there. It was a good conference. One of the comfort companies I ran into was this company called Monarch Tractor. I had no idea who these people were and I had innocently tried to get to know about their technology. And you know, I befriended one of their marketing people and you know, and I was just asking really basic questions about their technology. And you know, the interesting thing about this, you know, it was a fully electric tractor, automated tractor, basically.

You know, they were selling as like this Tesla of tractors basically. And for me it was novel. But, you know, I had a lot of questions. You know, I’m there, you know, I’m former extension, you know, I have to represent farmers. And when I go to these ag tech conferences, I ask a lot of hard questions of these companies because they’re startups, they’re VC backed and you know, vc? What does that mean? Venture capital. And so the venture capital is just pouring into these companies and you know, I just want to check and see like, you know, is this viable? What are y’all doing? And I started asking them questions about like basic questions about their technology and they were very dodgy.

You know, the main question I asked a lot of these companies is how do you repair your robots, how you repair your tech? Because, you know, farmers know, and I know working in agriculture, things break down. And you know, I just wanted to know what would it take to repair this. And a lot of the answers I got, and especially for Monarch Tractor was, well, we’re going to send a repair crew from California to your farm to repair your tractor for you. And I thought, that’s not going to work. You know, are they going to be drones? Yeah, I had, well, they’re going to fly a repair crew out to your farm from California.

And so at the time I just thought, this is not viable, this is not viable technology. They’re just showing us what the future could be, you know, as a startup. And it wasn’t until about February the next year I was in Tulare, California and I ran into these people again and they had a much larger demo going on at the World Agriculture Fair. And, and that’s when I realized, I thought, I thought, okay, these guys are getting a lot of money, they’re getting a lot of backing. Who are they? Who is Monarch Tractor? Because of all these ag tech companies and some get picked, picked and choose by VCs, but these, they were getting promoted in the mainstream media.

Promoted. And, and, and like all these different publications that Farmers don’t even care about. Which led me to believe that there’s an agenda behind this particular company. And me being a student of the occult and symbolism, I realized immediately what Monarch meant. Monarch being, you know, an inside reference to Hollywood in Monarch mind control and CIA. Monarch mind control. And I wondered, is that, is that like, you know, a joke? Is it a joke? Like, you know, what are they, what are they trying to get across to us? When I first, you know, when we, when you first came to me with this information and that, that was where my mind immediately went.

Because, you know, the symbolism there is, is. I don’t think it’s ever a joke. It’s just kind of a, at the very least it’s a hat tip. Like we’re on the team. Yeah, yeah. Team intel oligarch. And I realized that. And you know, and, and, and so I kind of zoomed in on him a little bit. Their microscope. Because I met a lot of other startups, great people. And you know, this particular startup kept getting pushed in the media. Pushed in the media, New York Times, Washington Post. Getting pushed by politicians, getting pushed by my United States Senator.

You know, all these, all these Democratic party politicians were pushing Monarch Tractor. And I thought, you know, and I knew that the EV thing was getting pushed by the Biden administration, but this company was getting huge subsidies from the state of California called the core subsidy program for farmers to buy their tractors. And then on top of that, the Biden administration kicked in an EQIP program subsidy. And mind you, this is our taxpayer dollars paying for electric tractors. And they were paying for farmers to scrap their existing tractors to buy an electric one and only paid for half of it.

But to scrap perfectly good tractors seemed to me to be absurd. Certainly, you know, I. Social engineering, I know a lot of farmers who use many different funding opportunities from EQIP and Wetland Reserve Program and many other USDA backed programs that are available for farmers. I found that this one was not congruent with what all the other programs were trying to do. It seemed to just be promoting EVs and farming and this whole like push for EVs and farming. And I, you know, I don’t, I own an EV. I. Not necessarily against EVs, but I thought this is quite absurd because a lot of people would joke, they would laugh at the idea of an electric tractor.

A lot of farmers would not take this seriously. And the fact, I mean, you know, you look at the, you look at the, the truck or whatever, you know, the cyber, the cyber truck. Yeah, you Know, I mean, that, that’s laughed at by good old boys. It looks ridiculous in the south, you know, like that’s gonna pull you out of a ditch and everything else. You know, I’m not, I’m a fan of Musk, by the way. Sure. I mean, he’s come out with some really interesting. Right. But, but on that side, that is something that people scoff at.

So the only way to do it would to kind of be able to force it or incentivize. Cultural issue. There’s a cultural issue there. And, and, and, and, and the culture needs to be respected. The cultural differences, especially here in rural areas, you know, EV tractors are never going to take off. And there’s a lot of different reasons why. But what really got me upset is they were coming out and saying, oh, this is environmentally friendly. And you know, like you’re going to own an EV tractor. Like there are posts and I don’t have them, but I watched on LinkedIn all this stuff on LinkedIn.

And they were pushing this farm in New Zealand that went all electric as like this model for farming. And they were buying these Monarch tractors. And the people who run this farm must be really crazy because they said, you know, we hope someday that there won’t be another option except for electric tractors. And that’s when I really started understanding. I was like, this is a huge political agenda. These people are getting all these money and subsidies. They’re going around to the VC firms and the venture capital people. What I realized, like going to this World agritech forum and I met all of these venture capital people out there and I talked to all of them out there and not one of them has a background in agriculture.

They do not understand farming or agriculture. In fact, they don’t seem interested in issues around agriculture. They’re just there to write checks and throw money at startups. And I think that is reckless. I think what’s going on in ag tech is reckless. This is not how you adopt technology. This is not how you get farmers to adopt technology. I think the VCs are reckless. They’re propping up companies that are hostile towards farmers like Monarch Tractor. Monarch Tractor is not a friend to farmers. And they push. These social media influence influencers are pushing it. And like Leonardo DiCaprio, they got pulled Leonardo DiCaprio out to push a, push a tractor.

And since when is Leonardo DiCaprio been interested? Well, let’s just break this down like other. So he wrote this was back on the Mayfield 15th of 2023, like other electric vehicles Electric tractors are about fighting climate change by cutting our carbon footprint. Monarch estimates each of its EV tractors accounts for 14 passenger vehicles taken off the roads in terms of emissions. Electric tractors, he writes, will save on fuel. He didn’t write this by the way. And maintenance costs, they are lighter than most tractors and the self driving capability cuts down on labor costs as well. Advocates say EV tractors should lead to less herbicide use, increased productivity and improved worker performance or whatever.

And then there’s no, there’s no citations there. But I, what I would, citations there, but what I, what I, this, you know, climate change, that’s what this is tied to. That’s where the push is, that’s where, you know, you’ve got the venture capital I’m sure eventually leads to blackrock, State street, all the, you know, vanguard. And so it reminds me, especially the incentives, you know, it reminds me, I don’t know if you remember the Obama administration, the solar panel company, Solyndra, one of the biggest donors, the head of that to his campaign or ran his campaign and then he got all those, and then they, then it was a defunct company and they literally were throwing the solar panels in the garbage by the end of the experiment because it was cheaper to throw them away than it was to warehouse them because it was a defunct, the company was defunct.

This, this is what it reminds. So it’s very similar actually. These people are a scam, they’re grifters is what I eventually had to realize because they, you know, the one thing that tipped me off first is, you know, it takes me a while. I’m very, I’m very nice to people and unfortunately, sometimes I’m too nice and I’m very naive at times because of my niceness. And it’s just coming from this area, being from Arkansas, being from a rural background, you know, you go to a place like San Francisco, you’re in California, you’re in a foreign culture, you’re basically in a foreign country.

And with no manners. Most of the time, people with no manners and they look down on you, you’re looked down as a second class citizen. And they’re not really, they’re just, they’re not, they’re not congruent with people who farm, people who live in rural agricultural communities. Their mentality is very urbanized, very urbanistic, very almost, I would say they have a colonial attitude towards the rest of America that the Bay Area and San Francisco particularly will run the country. They know best about everything, right? And so, you know, I realized first that they were rude to Me, I got blown off.

They were rude to me. I got yelled at by one of their marketing people, like asking questions. So how so? So you’re at the conference, you go up, you start asking questions, and they don’t want to answer the question. Yeah, very dodgy. And I was trying to be nice and that raised suspicion. I was just, you know, I was just trying to have like basic conversation, like shoot the breeze with these people. Because that’s normally, you know, what people do is just try and get to know each other by small talk. And they weren’t interested in that and also yelled at me and you know, basically in front of all their company.

And I was just trying to ask basic questions about maintenance and what’s behind the technology. And, you know, they were. They were promoting all these things about this tractor and I wanted to see if it was true. I mean, there are fallacies in this post that even they posted here that, that electric tractors weigh less than normal tractors, which is a total lie. They weigh more that. Which is a problem for soil compaction. I asked them about that. I said, what do you think about soil compaction? And vineyards is a big problem in vineyards. They couldn’t answer that either.

So is that where they’re. They’re mainly trying this out, by the way, in the California, in the vineyards. Because this is Carlo Mondavi. The Mondavi wine family is behind this. And, you know, and he’s the one. What I found out from asking a lot of questions is this is really his company. This is Carlo Mondavi’s company. The Mondavi wine family is getting into ag tech, into tractors. And he was the one that named it Monarch Tractor and all of that. And he’s friends with Leonardo DiCaprio. And that’s where this whole thing comes in, where, you know, this is a big tech elite tech bro club and farmers are not in it.

We’re not welcome in this club. They do not want us there at these conferences. In fact, I went to this agritech conference last year and again, I didn’t see barely any farmers there. After talking to many farmers for an entire year and saying, maybe you should go check out what’s at this conference. But most the farmers don’t want to go because this conference is overpriced. It’s like $3,000 for two days to go in there and talk to these tech bros. And every time I’ve been there, they were never nice to me. I’ve been there twice to this conference now, and I will not go back because every time I went to this conference and I’ve asked questions and I’ve tried to get to know some of these, some of these companies, they’ve been extremely rude towards me.

Yeah. And I’m one of the few people representing like rural agriculture there. I had one person tell me this conference isn’t for farmers. So who’s it for if this is an ag tech conference? Who’s it for if it’s not for farmers? It seems like there’s an arrogance, you know, you’re describing really an arrogance. And I would imagine, you know, in the tech bro sphere that they look at farmers obviously is less than, but they see it as something as like a. Well, this is a technical step down for us. So this should be something that’s easy.

We’re going to push the technology on them, they’ll eventually get on board. But I mean, from what I could tell, you know, I think this whole push, I’m very suspicious of, you know, getting to a point where a generation from now if we don’t have human beings that still have the institutional industry knowledge of how to farm and feed the world and you’re putting it in the hands of essentially robots. And I know that initial clip was, was not real yet, but it just, it, it’s, it’s, it’s really anti humanity. I mean the whole thing is transhumanism.

It’s, it’s part of this whole transhumanist movement. And you know, again, it is arrogance. It’s supreme arrogance actually, because, you know, I’ve spent years and years and years studying soil science, studying soil conservation, plant biology, all of these integrated sciences that go into farming. And farmers spend their entire lives learning about farming. And the fact that they think that the machines are going to replace us essentially is what they, I feel like what they think is that eventually we will be reduced to nothing by these machines, that the AI will learn to farm and that, you know, at some point there won’t be a use for farmers anymore because the tech bros are going to take over farming.

They got it. The tech bros have farming. We don’t need farmers anymore. When robots and the AI can farm, what’s the use for people farming? And they really have this very arrogant mentality about it and they don’t like farmers. And you know, I went to this conference, I met the people at Google as well was another company I met. It was absolutely horrible towards me. And I tried to get to know the people at Google because they had this company called Mineral AI and they were Just developing this AI company for farmers. Yet they never talked to any farmers.

I tried to talk to them. I, you know, I was like, okay, Google’s trying to get into farming, what are y’all doing? And I was talking to like the head of their person for this Mineral AI and she was just totally blowing me off, was really mean person, was not interested in knowing anything about farming or agriculture. And I got really mad. I go on LinkedIn, I use LinkedIn as a sounding board. I started calling out mineral AI and Google, you know, and I basically said, we don’t want y’all in agriculture, you don’t want to talk to us, you don’t want to have any interaction with people in agriculture farming.

Yet you say you want to bring out this company, Mineral AI. I said, well maybe we don’t want you in farming, maybe we don’t want you in our industry and in fact we don’t need your technology to farm. And that’s kind of really my message here to all the tech bros, including Monarch Tractor and San Francisco Agritech people and your stupid conference that I’m not going to go and spend my money or time on anymore. In fact, I’m telling farmers and everyone to boycott this conference and to boycott your stupid startups because we don’t actually need your technology to farm.

People been farming without technology, without AI or robotics for centuries, for thousands of years. And the main problems in agriculture are not going to be solved by robots or AI. It’s going to be solved through soil conservation and conservation, tillage and cover, cropping and water conservation. And that’s going to be done by people who are scientists and studying, working with farmers and out in the field actually collecting data and monitoring and looking at plants and learning about science. It’s not going to be solved by robots and AI. And yeah, robots and AI are a tool in that, but it’s not going to replace people.

And it’s certainly, it’s certainly not a panacea for our problems that really are natural resource related issues. We, you know, there are issues in automation and labor and agriculture which are serious, but the real issues in farming have to deal with natural resource problems and they’re not, they don’t care to hear that, they don’t care to hear what farmers are actually going through. Because I go to these conferences and I talk to these people and some of the questions I ask about is like, how would farmers finance this? Because one of the biggest problems in agriculture right now, and I’ve been an extension agent, I’ve Been to farmers houses.

I’ve seen farmers bring out their workbooks and try and you know, balance their farm books while I’m at their house. Because most farmers are in debt and you know, and that’s a serious issue in agriculture. And what are we doing about getting farmers out of debt? Farmers in America are at a crisis. They’re committing suicide. It was just on kit like a year or so ago. Suicide crisis for farmers in Arkansas. I was just talking to this friend last night who’s actually in the industry saying that right now there’s a lot of farmers out there very depressed.

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And so you know, you think about food supply and communism and getting control of the food supply and replacing farmers with robots, whether, you know, whether it might not be an immediate threat. But that’s, I’m sorry, that’s what I think these people are up to. Yeah, they don’t care about rule of farmer suicides. Bill Gates doesn’t care about rule of farmer suicides. And the people at this conference who are pushing Bill Gates, Bill Melinda Gates foundation onto farmers or his new AG1 foundation. Whatever it is, whatever it is, it’s evil. And I spotted this long ago that the tech Bros were trying to get into farming.

And there’s nothing good that’s going to come of this. There’s really nothing good that’s going to come of this because they’re not interested in ethics as far as, like ethics as a discipline in technology adoption, which is something huge we talk about in agricultural extension and tech adoption. You know, I try and go up there and talk to these people because, you know, I have this background extension. I was a former extension professor. They’re not interested. They don’t care. They don’t care about rural farmers, rural communities, and they don’t care about the future of agriculture so much as it is now, as much as they want to seize control of it with their technology and money.

And they will push us out. And they don’t care if farmers are killing themselves because they’re in debt. Because actually that’s probably part of the whole agenda is to get rid of farmers or just let them off themselves so Bill Gates can come in and buy their farmland and put us all out, you know, off the farm. And that’s, you know, so what, Tell us more about the company, Monarch. Where, where are they now? What are they doing now? So, you know, they’re out of the Bay Area and they’re pushing these tractors. And you know what? Everything I’ve seen about them is their company’s failing.

The more that their company fails, because I looked them up on Glassdoor, I reached out to farmers who bought there, bought their tractors and I looked at their product reviews online and talked to other farmers and no one’s happy with their technology. And these people. This is all just a huge PR push. This is just all a huge marketing PR campaign to push this technology out there so that the VCs will fund it. Because Monarch Tractor came out of Lordstown, Ohio and that was Lordstown Motors out of, out of Ohio. That was a failed company. And when they pushed, you know, that, that, that, that failed Lordstown truck that they, they were making, their, that same, that company got into so many problems because of misleading their investors, putting in fake orders, fluffing up the numbers.

Here we go, right here. SEC charges Lordstown Motors with misleading investors about companies flagship electric vehicle. This was last year this happened. Yeah. And so now Monarch Tractors in the same factory, Foxconn is now building their, building their tractor. And, and, and the, the Monarch people did the same thing. I have them on, on the media saying, oh, we’re gonna build a thousand tractors this year. They’re nowhere near a thousand tractors. They’re half, maybe halfway to a thousand but when you come out and say, we have an order, we have orders for thousands of tractors to get more investors on board, you’re misleading your investors.

You’re lying, you’re lying. And that’s investor fraud. And they are. I think that they’re guilty of investment fraud. They’re scamming VCs out of money to fund their tractor company, to fund this electric vehicle scam that they’re pushing and they’re trying to scam farmers into buying it. So it looks like there’s demand for electric tractors when there’s not. Do the tractors work? Everything I’ve heard is that the tractors are breaking down. You can’t fix them. I have an email from a farmer. Well, I saw that email. So here’s somebody says, I had a truly disappointing experience with Monarch Tractor.

I took delivery of their newest tractor, mkv, last December. I followed the guidelines provided by monarch and PG&E meticulously. He says, I invested in a charger, as recommended. Invest in professional installation with qualified electrician company. I’ve also paid my team for professional training. Despite these efforts, the model I received never charged properly. I’ve been in contact with Monarch Support since February to resolve the issue, but to no avail. Nor have they offered to take back their defective product with a refund. So he says, since two full months is plenty of time to resolve a critical issue in my investment has been significant.

And I was planning, cultivating and mowing in my ranch with the tractor, which has been impossible, obviously. And then he goes on to say, since the device is dead, I must report my extreme disappointment with this company. I’m sorry to say I recommend. I recommend to stay away from their products, their businesses. Says reading the other reviews, I see this does seem to be a good place to work, which is. Yeah, this does seem to be a good place to work. Does it seem. Say that again? He said, it doesn’t seem to be a good place.

Okay. It doesn’t seem to be a good place to work, which is not necessarily incompatible with products being faulty. And there’s even more. So you sent me some of these things. It says it’s badly designed, terrible for vineyard use. We have others. It rolls. It rolls. They put that really well. That’s a big red flag. Yeah. The way they designed it. They never talked to a farmer. They never talk to a farmer when they design the tractor because you know that you need the wheels out where you can see them. When you’re setting up in the cab, you can’t see where the wheels are.

Really dangerous. It’s a dangerous vehicle. Wow. Yeah. And then there’s not. Other people are saying there’s no job security or, you know, there’s just a ton of, ton of stuff up there. Yeah. About, about this particular company, Monarch. You go on Glassdoor, read the, read the employee reviews. Some of them have disappeared. Some of the worst employee does. And I’ve archived them and saved them. But they’re, you know, they’re, they’re, they’re also. Hostile work environment. Mm. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, they’re, they’re also treating their employees very badly. And you know, and that just goes back to their corporate leadership and their whole mentality about everything, I think is they just don’t care.

They’re not good people. They’re not the kind of people that farmers would want to do business with. And why are they getting pushed on us? That’s what I want to know is why are the VC firms and all these ag tech groups pushing this technology? Why are they forcing it on farmers and trying to force us to take it? And that’s because there’s an agenda here. This tractor, by the way, what they don’t tell you is it has a Wingspan AI, which is a Amazon, Jeff Bezos backed company. What’s that? Wingspan AI? Yeah, Wingspan AI is a Jeff Bezos company.

So they’re partnering with Amazon, so already bringing in big tech and the big tech bros and Praveen Mitzvah. The CEO of this company was up there with Jeff Bezos on stage. One of Jeff Bezos is big, you know, things in San Francisco with this Wingspan AI push and Wingspan AI, just to let you know what it does, some of what it does is spy on your farm. And so you’ll have a tractor on your farm spying on you. What it does actually, and they promote it as a good thing, but it is collecting data on your farm and making analytical, analytical reports on how much your carbon footprint is on your farm.

So this is a way to start monitoring, engaging your farm’s carbon footprint. Because you can have a Monarch tractor on your farm. And the Monarch tractor is designed to develop algorithms to basically collect data to say how much is your carbon footprint. And so farmers will be, I don’t know, judged by that, I guess. Either they’ll get tax credits or be incentivized to lower it or whatever. But the fact is, is that this technology is meant to control farmers. It’s not meant to help them, it’s meant to control them and bring them into a digital control grid.

Most farmers are looking for Older tractors. They’re looking for tractors built in the 80s and 70s and 90s because they don’t have computer systems in them because farmers can work on them. You go to any farmer out here to the edge of town, talk to some rice farmers out in Bono and ask them, what kind of farm equipment are you looking for? They’re going to say it’s older equipment. They don’t like the newer equipment because John Deere and all the other equipment manufacturers went full digital on things and farmers can’t fix their tractors. And it’s this whole right to repair issue.

I was talking, Yeah, I mean, you know, I was talking to farmers over the weekend and you know, I was asking them, you know, do you know how to weld? I had ulterior motives because I was thinking about building a smoker, but it’s. I’m not a welder, but I, But I am a barbecue enthusiast. Same here. But the idea is. Yeah, I mean, farmers are working on their equipment and welding and doing all kinds of things all the time. And you know, the digital stuff, they’re not, I’m assuming most of them are not, you know, like computer science majors.

No. And they don’t, you know, and they, they understand data and all of that. Well, yeah, of course. Day, at the end of the day, they need equipment that is reliable and works and that the. Can fix on the fly in their shops. Yeah. If you’re giving them something that you need a team from California to come out and fix and it doesn’t even work from the beginning. What are you pushing on us? Why are you trying to get people to buy this? Why is the US government pushing it? Why is the California government pushing it? And that’s all of this agenda.

It’s the tech bro agenda. And the tech bro agenda does, you know, is a transhumanist agenda. It is, it is an anti human agenda. It is tech above all. It is tech above all. And you know, many of them, I think, really do believe in their, in their superiority over us because of their access to technology. And it’s very disturbing, that mentality. How exactly do you think they’ll. They’ve got to have a plan. Unless it’s just, unless it’s just another Solyndra and they’re just in it for the grift, which I think that’s true. But like, how are they going to get, you know, some good old boy, you know, farmer in the Mississippi Delta to adopt this stuff? There has to be.

Well, if they were going to do it right and I, you know, I try and come to these companies and give them an opportunity to have access to talk to farmers because, you know, I’ve been an extension agent for many years and I have many contacts and agricultural extension and we know who all the farmers are and you know, I tried to give them a chance to demo their product and a lot of them will not do demos with extension because Agricultural Extension Service is a free public service provided by our land grant universities here at the University of Arkansas.

And everything that extension does has to be peer reviewed, science based. We cannot promote anything. We can show it to farmers and we can show extension publications that are based on our research. So the problem is that a company like Monarch Tractor doesn’t want to turn over their technology to extension because as soon as, let’s say the extension service starts testing their tractor, they’re going to come out with publications that are research and science based that’s going to say the real numbers about how long the batteries last and what kind of maintenance it needs and what temperatures and things that can operate.

Because EVs can’t operate in the cold at the same rate as in warm weather. I don’t think this would work even in the Midwest where it’s very cold in the winter. I think EV tractors might be good for California or Florida or South Texas, but certainly not in the Midwest or the north where, you know, you need something that’s going to be reliable in the winter. And tractors do get used in the winter. Farmers use them for other things, not just farming. They need them for other tasks around the farm. And that’s the kind of stuff that a company like this is afraid of.

Because they’re hiding. I think they’re really hiding how dysfunctional their technology really is. It’s not as advanced as what they may seem. Really. It’s a smokescreen. The technology is a smokescreen for the grift because the tech bros are always grifting. The new grift is AI. And Monarch Tractor goes on and on and on about their AI, Their AI. I don’t know what their AI really does because I tried to ask them questions about, well, you know, they have all these sensors on this tractor and they were saying, oh, it’s going to sense pests and it’s going to sense fruit diseases and all of that.

And I thought that’s cool. But how, like it needs to be trained. I know how AI works. You need to train the AI. Have you been training the AI to look at these things? And then when you find out you Talk to other people and it’s like, oh, it doesn’t really work that way. They’re just saying that, they’re just saying that it does that and hoping you don’t notice or know really what they’re saying is just, just a lie, you know, to promote, to promote their company. And it’s this whole VC backed tech grift. And what really upsets me, and I’ve been saying this now for a while on LinkedIn, is that I believe technology should be in the hands of farmers.

That farmers should be able to steer the path and direction of ag tech and they should have a say in this and they should be engaged in tech adoption. And we’re not getting that engagement from these, these VC backed firms out of the Bay Area. They are just really not interested in engaging with farmers at all. And that was a shock to me. I just thought that was shocking because at the end of the day I was there to find, I thought, I was very excited about all this stuff. I thought agrobotics and AI, you know, I need to learn as much about this as possible.

This is very exciting. This is going to be useful for farmers. And what I found out was really disturbing and kind of shocking and a big letdown is that it’s probably not going to help farmers. These people don’t know what they’re doing and they’re not interested in even working with us. So what, you know, what is all this actually about? You remember that I have to start asking that question. Yeah. You remember that cash for clunkers thing under the Obama administration? Yeah, that’s exactly what this is. Yeah. This is that. This gives me those type of vibes.

Yeah. They want you to trash your existing tractor to buy a Monarch and they’re only going to pay for half the Monarch to trash your tractor. And what a waste. Because EV tractors actually are not environmentally friendly. If you look into EVs and what it takes to, to make the batteries. Yeah. And, and the slavery in Africa, the child slavery that’s going on in some of these mines. I, you know, they’re, they’re trying to make us look like we’re bad because farmers are farming and it’s causing carbon, Carbon emissions. Emissions, yes. And they’re trying to make us look like we’re morally corrupt for admitting emitting greenhouse gases.

But what’s more morally corrupt I think is that, you know, you’re, you’re engaged in child slavery to build these batteries. And, and, and why are the liberals celebrating this? So we have to be, they should be saying you’re exactly right. Watch out, you’re exactly right. But yeah, but modern leftists have abandoned humanity critical thought. They just kind of, you know, humanity NPCs, they do whatever the government says now which is crazy that that didn’t used to be a thing or whatever the corporate, you know, they used to be anti corporation. I wonder. We have, we’ve gone through this whole interview.

43 minutes in, we haven’t really even shown what are these. Looks like this tractor looks goofy. Yeah, it’s ugly. So would you. It’s painted battleship gray. Yeah. Yeah. I mean yeah, very much a. Yeah, very much. It looks depressing. I, I think it’s just like the techie but. Yeah. The communists apartments of, of today. Well and actually one of the other farmers on that, on that forum, I’ll just say that he looked at it and said they, they built this without ever talking to a farmer. Yeah. And the main thing is it’s. Look at those wheels.

Yeah. You were saying the, the wheels on the front need to be further out so that the person who’s driving the tractor can see the front where the wheels are when they turn and have the wheels underneath. Someone ever talked to a farmer? Well, Jacob, it doesn’t never sat in a tractor but yeah, it doesn’t, it doesn’t matter if it rolls because they’ll just, they’ll have a robot driving it and so if it were in the robots are expendable. Yes. Yeah. Well it is a self driving tractor and to that point I don’t understand all the benefits of that.

But a self driving tractor with a steering wheel. So I mean it is made for humans to use. It is made for humans to use. It’s. They say it’s driver optional but you know, like a Roomba. Yeah. And those don’t work very well and this can only go up and down rows and so it’s got very basic limited functionality actually is what I understand about it. And it actually doesn’t even really work. Well they’re trying to push it into dairy farms now and I’ve tried to warn the Dairy Farmers association of America about this. All right, we’re just going to interrupt one more time folks.

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And you know, and I’ve just been fighting these people for years. Every time they come out, Monarch Tractor comes out with these upset, absurd, insane claims about their technology and that they’re going to go sell it to another group of farmers. And you know, I’m always right behind them trying to warn all these farmers. Unfortunately, they have like all the media behind them. They got cnn, msnbc, Washington Post, New York Times. Name them off every single social media influencer pushing them. Leonardo DiCaprio. Hollywood’s behind them. Like. Well, you know, once you link it to climate change, that opens a lot of doors.

Yeah. You’re trying to save the planet. Yeah. And Mondavi, you know, Carla Mondavi and, and them are all connected to the Bay Area Hollywood elite. Again. They made this association of being the Monarch CIA mind control tractor and just throw it up, just throw it up. Who, you know, bringing out Leonardo DiCaprio as their, as their brand ambassador, you know, I think, you know, is to let us know that they’re. These really are. If you got the. Do you got the little connection with Leonardo DiCaprio because, ah, you know, the celebrity map. Yeah. I wanted to show, I guess you’re mapped out the elite.

All right. You’re gonna have to interpret this form. For years I’ve been mapping out the elite for years. Okay. And I’ve been engaged in a campaign. These are all the people who are connected to Jeffrey Epstein in the world. And that’s what this is. Yeah. These are all the people in the world. All. Every single dot on this map is. Is. This is Graph Commons. Is. This is Epstein. This is people who are connected to Epstein. And I’ve just clicked on Leonardo DiCaprio and took a screenshot there. Did you make this? Well, this has been a collaborative effort, but I can’t say who’s been involved in it, but.

Okay, okay, okay. So you’re saying. Okay, so you. So, so Leonardo DiCaprio is directly connected to Jeffrey Epstein. And we know that now that came out like just last year. And, you know, Cap DiCaprio, you know, likes his women young, blah, blah, blah. We already know that. So I thought it was very strange, you know, that, you know, this whole Hollywood connection is connected to Epstein. All the people in the elite. Doesn’t matter who you point to. There’s a free Epstein connection. Jeffrey Epstein. Wow. Yeah, I know. I didn’t think this was going here when you sent this to me.

I didn’t really understand what exactly it was. This. This is just one node on the. On the Epstein map. But this is the hot. The hot part of the Hollywood node. But with Mondo are all of these other note, like, they’re all connected to each other, but I only have one photo. Yeah. So this is something secret. I know, but it’s some sort of like, interact you guys have. You and whoever has. Have created some sort of interactive Epstein connection. Yes. Yes. That is insane, man. Yes. That looks like a ton of work. Yeah, it has been years and years in the making.

This is probably. But I see here what you’re saying is Carla Mondavi is connected to DiCaprio. DiCaprio directly to Epstein. So, you know, you’re bringing in Hollywood to push agricultural technology, you know, bringing in Leonardo DiCaprio as your brand ambassador. Red flags. Red flags. You know, especially with the Epstein connection now. So, you know, I can only question, like, is the Mondavi family also connected to Epstein? You know, what are their connections in this whole Bay Area elite? How many of these people in Hollywood, you know, we know that they’re connected to Epstein now all these names are coming out.

So, you know, I would just caution you, be careful who you promote, because, you know, you start promoting people in Hollywood, there’s not any of them that are not compromised. And people know this is general information now. This is out in the Open 10, 15 years ago. You’re crazy. Now you can see it. And that’s why, you know, I put this up here, is just. I wanted to show, like, these are the kind of People who are trying to get into agriculture. Okay, okay, I understand. Yeah. And do we want them here? Do we want them involved in the future of agricultural technology? Given their background and the kinds of people who live in California, in the Bay Area and have this power of technology, it certainly would be beneficial if we could get the, get the Epstein list.

Oh, certainly. I mean, but now we’ve got more delays. You know, everybody’s really frustrated. Yeah. About the lack of certainly Epstein list and they don’t want that coming out. But I mean, can you imagine though? I mean, I’m just. My comment on it is, wow, could you imagine how disclosing everything would essentially ruin, you know, not just the schemes of sex traffickers but also all of their side projects potentially, like trying to take over farming and erase the farmer and again in a generation, again, getting rid of the institutional knowledge that human beings know how to feed themselves.

Certainly. And so I, what I want to do now, you know, is a couple different things. You know, while I wrap this up is that, you know, I want to say to the folks at Monarch Tractor that you’ve been exposed. I’m going to continue exposing you. I’m going to continue going to conferences pointing out your fraud and scam. I’m using you as an example of how not to approach farmers and how ag tech fails. And I’m going to write this in a textbook someday and teach it in a class to the folks at the Agri Tech conference in San Francisco.

Your conference is a scam. I’m exposing this. I’m also telling farmers not to attend. You can reach out to me if you like. I’m willing to discuss this with y’all, but everything I see about your conference, I don’t like it and it seems to be an anti farmer agenda. So I’m going to start speaking out against your conference. And I don’t really see any of these speakers here as anyone who’s actually friendly to farming to the VCs in the bay Area, I have to say to you, stop funding failed startups. Stop dumping your stupid money into any startup and shiny thing that you see because you’re just wasting your money.

There’s a lot of other great startups across this country that are not in the Bay Area and especially in agriculture and ag tech. Could you look outside of the Bay Area in California for a startup anywhere else in this country and fund that? What’s yalls agenda? And now to Secretary Rollins and to the usda, please look into all this public for funding that is being put into these ag tech companies, specifically EV tractors. Can you stop the equip program? Stop paying farmers to junk their tractors to buy an electric tractor? I don’t know how long this program’s going on, but please cease this immediately.

I will be reaching out to your office after this conversation that I’m having right now to formally ask that you stop any other subsidies to Monarch Tractor, to EV tractors and agriculture, and to our President of the United States, Donald Trump. I think you should seriously take ag tech as a serious issue that’s going to impact our farmers. Farmers need help adopting appropriate technology and not technology that’s being pushed by these large VCs out of the Bay Area. There’s better people out here in the country who actually care about farmers, who want to help them adopt good technology.

But we’re going to need the USDA and the Cooperative Extension Service and farmers involved in that and not just big tech and Tech Bros and the VC. So, Mr. President, hope you’re listening to this. I’m going to send this to your office as well and follow up with you all on all these issues. Wow. Where do you fall down on it seems like the narrative about artificial intelligence is we’ve got to get, we’ve got to get the good guys, whoever they are. They’ve got to get a corner on the AI before the bad guys. And so there’s this allegedly, you know, AI arms race, I guess you could call it.

Like, do you believe, do you believe all of that? Are there, are there good guys that are, that are, that are actually, you know, going to. I don’t think there’s any good guys. Okay, well, I don’t think there’s any good guys in AI right now because all the technology is being held by a small few. And most people don’t understand how artificial intelligence even works, how you train the AI, what, what goes into this. And so there’s a huge gap in understanding and there’s a huge gap in knowledge that, that, that’s, you know, not that that just is not publicly available.

Most people have not studied AI and how it works. You know, there’s very basic AI and then there’s quite advanced AI, the really advanced AI we haven’t seen. And I think there’s a lot of secrets out there that we’re not hearing about, like where AI is going and where it’s going to be taking us. And yeah, I’m quite concerned about this gap in knowledge and gap in access to technology because the people in, again, in the San Francisco Bay Area who have access to all this technology and venture capital. They’re off doing their own thing, and they do not care about the rest of us.

They really see themselves as this breakaway colonial civilization controlling America. And so I repudiate the Tech Bros. I repudiate the VCs. I repudiate the Bay Area. I condemn y’all and what you are doing. I see what you’re doing. The rest of us in America see what you’re doing. You cannot hide anymore, you know, and must, you know, Elon Musk, he needs to pick a side, too, because he’s, you know, straddling the Tech Bro fence. And, you know, at some point, you know, he’s going to have to decide, are you with the Bay Area Tech Bros? Are you going to be with the rest of America? Because the rest of America is the land of freedom and the Constitution and humanity pro humanity.

The Tech Bros in San Francisco are the breakaway rebellious civilization, transhumanists. And they. They are not welcome here in our country anymore. I’m gonna say you’re not welcome here, and we don’t want your technology, and you’re welcome to have your breakaway civilization outside of the United States. We don’t need your AI or your robotics. You’re free to leave. Thank you for showing us your technology. We. We really don’t need it. We have perfectly fine lives without AI and robotics controlling it. Yeah, no, I completely agree with that. And so just in general, I mean, I’m glad we were able to kind of maybe focus down on this, this one aspect, because it’s coming.

It’s coming really, to every industry. I was reading a post. I can’t remember who it was. This was a couple of weeks ago, but it was. It was essentially saying, you know, the family unit kind of is one of the bedrock bedrocks of our civilization, of any civilization, or whatever. But the other thing is, it’s like a job, like what you do for a living is also. And this post was saying that, you know, the AI actually is going to come for lawyers and, and doctors before it comes for plumbers and electricians. And I don’t know if that’s true or not, but really the idea of what happens when you and the World Economic Forum talks about this.

What are we going to do with all these people? Well, we’ll give them video games and drugs that they’ve actually said this. And so this agenda, I think, will, you know, what we’ve been talking about today with farming. It goes right along with this problem they think they have, which is what do we do with all these useless human beings after we take away their jobs? They don’t see a value in humanity. And because of that, we’re at war. And we’re really at war. Most Americans don’t know that we’re at war with the Tech Bros. But.

But the Tech Bros declared war on us decades ago and that they don’t see us in their future with their AI and their robotics. And they’ve really developed an AI that they think is going to replace God. And if you’re a Christian, you should find this very concerning. That many of the Tech Bros see AI as the new God is that they’re going to create God, that humans will create God. God doesn’t exist now, but AI will be the new God and that is the new religion. And yeah, I have so many problems with that. I mean.

Yeah, what an understatement. So many problems with that. Yeah. Unbelievable. Well, Jacob Holloway, we really appreciate it. Can people find you online anywhere if they want to follow your stuff? Yeah, you can find me on LinkedIn under my name, but I’m kind of hidden there. But you can also find me on Instagram. Instagram @1lost. Archie @1lostarchy. You can find me on Instagram and follow me there. I just post travel photos. Nothing political, but more than happy to engage with anybody who wants to continue this conversation. You know, I’m always open to. Well, we can’t have. Yeah, I can’t wait to have you back on here again and talking more about some of this stuff.

Yeah, I know we’ve got some more. More stuff that we’re going to talk about as well. So it’s always great to have you on, sir. Yeah, absolutely. It’s been awesome. And folks, thank you for tuning in and we’ll see you next time. The Paul Harrell program, the very foundation of the Christian faith is based on.
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