Netafim
Orbia’s Precision Agriculture business Gakon Netafim is a leading greenhouse company that provides turnkey greenhouse solutions and advice on growing fresh produce sustainably. We are your expert partner from start to success, giving you total confidence and peace of mind in delivering a solid return on investment. We do this by leveraging greenhouse innovations, knowledge, and decades of experience in first-class greenhouse projects with our local teams at your site. In the controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) space, our innovative greenhouse solutions help: -Increase food safety and food security -Grow high-quality products -Innovate cultivation methods -Create environment-friendly processes Gakon Netafim brings together 70 years of Dutch heritage in glasshouse manufacturing and Netafim’s global presence and precision agricultural innovation. Both companies are part of Orbia. Orbia is a worldwide leader in specialty products and innovative solutions for infrastructure, precision agriculture, healthcare delivery, and data communications.www.netafim.com
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Oct 13, 2026
Olivia KranefussGUEST
But now they're trying to build out those platforms more to offer crop water modeling, automatic water adjustments, remote management, things like that.
Olivia KranefussGUEST
And then in the drip line space, the two that come to mind are Jain and Netafim.
Olivia KranefussGUEST
They're, they're really making a pretty big push to get into the software space as well by developing their own platforms that control their own equipment.
Olivia KranefussGUEST
Uh, but there is another side of that as well.
Reese TisdaleHOST
They're pretty active across the space.
Reese TisdaleHOST
But one of the companies, uh, that invests in them is Alley Axis Ventures, and they're the more tr- They're a pipe company at the end of the day, right? Their venture group puts money into different solutions and technologies which they think that there's growth, and maybe it all comes together as one ultimately.
Reese TisdaleHOST
But obviously, Alley Axis and Alley Axis Ventures see some opportunity in that, and maybe they, it, you know, 'cause I-- Alley Axis and Orbia would be the other with Netafim.
Reese TisdaleHOST
They're a pipe company.
Adam UllrichGUEST
So I started with Steve-
Kelly GarrettGUEST
Steve-You know, and then, and then when we put the drip irrigation in with Netafim and Kirk Grimm and things like that, you know, then that brought me access to other people.
Kelly GarrettGUEST
Well, then we started, because of some success there at the Netafim, then we went to Ag PhD.
Kelly GarrettGUEST
Then I started going to Commodity Classic, and I started just finding nuggets of information at all, and it ultimately-
Damian MasonHOST
That's a lot to sort through though, Kelly
SimeonHOST
Geostationary communications satellite, Harold Rosen, 1963.
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Drip irrigation, Simcha Blass, Netafim, 1966.
SimeonHOST
Personal computer, CPU central processing unit, 1979, designed at Intel's Haifa Laboratory.
SimeonHOST
Voice over Internet, Internet Protocol, otherwise known as VoIP, Alon Cohen, used to make phone calls over the internet, 1989.
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Several kibbutzim founded companies that became internationally successful, manufacturing everything from irrigation equipment and plastics to medical devices and advanced industrial technology.
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One famous example is Netafim, a pioneer in modern drip irrigation that has helped farmers around the world grow crops while using far less water.
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In that sense, the kibbutz became something of an entrepreneurial incubator.
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Imagine beginning with cows, orange groves, and communal dining halls, then eventually developing technologies used on farms across multiple continents.
Brandon BurkhartHOST
And how are you doing it now versus how you used to do it back then? We were going over, you were saying earlier that you, you grow a bit different than, you know, the normal people we have on the podcast.
Steve MayoGUEST
yeah so i would say i don't even know the percentage of people that crop steer smaller pots um we we grow in it's almost kind of like what we were doing in traditional we'd have a big 10 gallon pot 15 gallon pot we'd dump it once a day while i'm doing that still We have the Netafim, but I'm growing in a three gallon cocoa and we're doing roughly six, seven plants a light.
Steve MayoGUEST
And I'm putting it in that pot growing to the size it needs to be to where it only needs water once a day.
Brandon BurkhartHOST
How long are you vegging in that three gallon?