Skagit Valley natives invent high-tech fix for farmers’ irrigation problems By Jacqueline Allison, Skagit Valley Herald
Published: May 16, 2021, 6:05am
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BOW After growing up on a potato farm in Bow, David and Connor Wallace went on to study sciences in college and then work at technology companies in Seattle and California’s Silicon Valley.
“The entire time I was feeling drawn back to the farm and agriculture, and applying technical skills to problems in agriculture,” David Wallace said.
In 2019, David Wallace quit his job as a data scientist for Amazon and started working full time on his family’s farm, Wallace Farms. His dad told him about a problem with his irrigation equipment that damaged crops and wasted water and fuel.