1) Interviews with large farms and organic farmers found that weeding is a huge problem, costing between $250-3,500 per acre and accounting for 50-75% of production costs. Manual weeding requires large crews of hundreds to thousands of workers and is a back-breaking task. 2) The organic weeding market represents a large total addressable market of $2.5 billion that is growing as organic acreage doubles every 4 years. An autonomous weeding solution could solve the major problem of distinguishing plants from weeds without using traditional chemical herbicides. 3) Initial interviews about large-scale mowing found that labor is also a large cost, though the market may be more fragmented