TerraClear Blog

How We Began TerraClear founder Brent Frei spent decades founding and leading successful technology companies, like Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR), Onyx Software, and HarvestWest Investment fund. But like others born into a close-knit farming community, his heart never left Grangeville, ID. When he returned to his hometown, his prior successes counted little to his standing on […]

“That would have taken me 5-10 times longer…” Conrad Arnzen, North Idaho farmer – “At one point it took them 8 minutes to pick a complete skid steer bucket full. That would have taken me at least 5-10 times longer and I would have climbed on and off the tractor 25+ times. TerraClear did all […]

As Brent Frei worked alongside his 81-year-old father picking rocks in the summer of 2017, the wheels began to turn in the serial tech entrepreneur’s head. “Despite owning multiple types of mechanical rock pickers, we were still picking rocks by hand in the summer heat,” Frei recalls. Combining his technology-driven problem solving with the drudgery […]

Automation has become an increasingly critical factor in agriculture and smart farming over the last decade. By utilizing advanced technologies such as smart sensing, machine learning, and robotics, farming processes can be optimized in many innovative ways. With a true mission to make farming easier and increase productivity, TerraClear is developing an end-to-end automation system […]

A previously analog industry is using technology to sprout fresh problem-solving ideas and harvest new entrepreneurial talent. It’s easy to think of the agriculture industry as very low-tech and “1.0” when it comes to developing and adopting new technologies. On the Eastside, however, two companies have embraced agricultural innovation from very different angles.  In Bellevue, […]

TerraClear continues testing the end-to-end, 24-hour rock picking solution – from flying the fields, producing detailed digital rock maps, and picking the rocks using the semi-autonomous picker. We even had some time for some good ol’ fashioned hand picking…or as we like to call it, rock picker appreciation! Hard to beat a week when we […]