So we're going to be applying this boosted technology that we've discovered across nearly every major crop worldwide. It'll both increase yield, but it will also have a massive impact on the ability to actually deliver seed and help farmers and make food prices lower. Is it improve sustainability? No, it's actually cheaper. So higher yield, lower cost.View on YouTube
As of November 30, 2025, there is no evidence that Ohalo’s Boosted Breeding technology has been applied across nearly every major crop worldwide or that it has had a visible, system‑wide impact on global food prices and sustainability metrics—but the time horizon for such a sweeping prediction is inherently long, so it is too early to call it definitively right or wrong.
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Current scope of deployment is narrow, not “nearly every major crop worldwide.”
- Ohalo’s own materials describe Boosted Breeding as a platform that can be applied to nearly every crop on Earth, but they highlight active programs mainly in potatoes, strawberries, and some other specialty or pilot crops, not a broad, global rollout across all major cereals and oilseeds.(ohalo.com)
- The May 23, 2024 press release and subsequent coverage emphasize that the technology has been discovered and that Ohalo is implementing Boosted Breeding to drive breakthroughs across a “multitude of crops” with partners and plans to expand, which indicates early rollout and R&D rather than mature, global adoption.(prnewswire.com)
- Concrete commercial efforts mentioned publicly include Boosted Potato (true potato seed and value‑added traits) and the Ohalo Strawberry Consortium launched in 2025, again pointing to specific crops and regions rather than most major crops worldwide.(ohalo.com)
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No evidence that the technology has materially lowered global food prices.
- Global food prices over 2024–2025 have been driven mainly by macro factors like weather, energy, and geopolitical shocks. The FAO Food Price Index in 2025 is volatile and in many months higher year‑on‑year than in 2024, even if well below the 2022 peak.(tradingeconomics.com)
- There is no attribution in FAO, Reuters, or other major analyses of food prices to Ohalo’s technology, which is still at an early‑adoption stage; any acreage under Boosted varieties is far too small (and geographically limited) to measurably affect global commodity prices.
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Sustainability and yield claims remain mostly at the trial / promise stage.
- Ohalo reports large yield gains (50–100%+ in early trials) and theoretical sustainability benefits (less land, water, and inputs per unit of food), but these are framed as potential or early‑trial outcomes, not as measured, global‑scale impacts across major crops.(ohalo.com)
- Job postings and materials emphasize field trials, early adopter farmers, and development of agronomic protocols for true seed systems, again indicating that the technology is in scale‑up and validation rather than mature, industry‑wide deployment.(jobs.valorcapitalgroup.com)
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Why this is “inconclusive” rather than “wrong.”
- The prediction did not specify a time frame. Transforming breeding systems and seed supply chains across nearly every major crop worldwide would, in realistic agricultural timelines, likely take well over a decade. Only ~18 months have passed since the podcast (May 17, 2024), which is far too short to judge such a structural, global claim.
- What we can say confidently is that the predicted end state has not yet materialized by late 2025; what we cannot say is that it will not materialize over the longer term. Hence, the correct classification is that it is too early to evaluate definitively.
So, the prediction is unfulfilled so far, but given the inherently long adoption cycle in global agriculture and the lack of a stated deadline, it is best categorized as inconclusive (too early) rather than clearly right or wrong.