For decades, farmers and agronomists have been forced to guess what’s happening inside the crop or wait days to weeks for tissue results that can change before the lab report even arrives.

In this episode of Soil Talks™, Brandon sits down with Xavier Hebert-Couturier, CEO & Founder of Picketa Systems, the team behind a handheld tool that uses light + AI to reveal what the human eye can’t: real-time nutrient status inside the leaf.

We unpack how the Picketa “Lens” is closing the gap between scouting and action turning every field visit into a tissue test in about a minute and why this matters for:

• Faster, better decisions in-season (no more waiting on labs)
• Reducing wasted fertilizer and improving nutrient efficiency
• Helping agronomists move from “diagnosing” to building a real plan
• Supporting more precise, measurable transitions toward regenerative & biological systems
• A future where sensing + application get tighter… all the way to automation

Xavier also shares how Picketa scaled from a university capstone project to a venture-backed ag tech company, why most ag tech fails, and what it will take to build the most reliable plant nutrition sensing system on earth.

Learn more about Picketa Systems:
Website: www.picketa.comEmail: [email protected]

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