Future of Agriculture
439 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 246 ratingsThis show explores the people, companies, and ideas shaping the future of the agriculture industry. Every week, Tim Hammerich talks to the farmers, founders, innovators and investors to share stories of agtech, sustainability, resiliency and the future of food.
We believe innovation is an important part of the future of agriculture, and real change comes from collaboration between scientists, entrepreneurs and farmers. Lead with optimism, but also bring data!
For more details on the guests featured on this show, visit the blog at www.FutureOfAgriculture.com.
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FoA 419: Laser Weeding And Growing A Robotics Company Toward An IPO With Paul Mikesell of Carbon Robotics
June 12, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Carbon Robotics: https://carbonrobotics.com/ Paul is the founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. What Carbon Robotics is doing is novel and interesting in and of itself, and we’re going to talk a lot about that in today’s episode. But it’s important to note that Paul has a really impressive history of building technology companies outside of agriculture. Before starting Carbon Robotics, he co-founded Isilon Systems, a ...
FoA 418: Bayer's Collaboration With Microsoft | Claudia Roessler | Mark Pendergrast
June 06, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes - 57.6 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Azure Data Manager for Agriculture (ADMA): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/data-manager-for-agriculture Ag Powered Services: https://agpoweredservices.com/ "Scaling Sustainability Through Bayer & Microsoft Partnership": https://www.bayer.com/en/agriculture/bayer-and-microsoft-partnership Today's episode features conversations with Claudia Roessler and Mark Pendergrast. A quick heads up on a couple of t...
FoA 417: Commercializing University Research For Better Nutrient Management | Phospholutions | Sentinel Fertigation
May 29, 2024 15:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Phospholutions: https://www.phospholutions.com/ Sentinel Fertigation: https://www.sentinelfertigation.com/ I’m a firm believer that in the U.S. our agricultural research and extension programs at our land grant universities truly are national treasures. But of all the outstanding research that’s done at these institutions every year, not enough of it seems to get commercialized. Today we highlight two young entrepr...
FoA 416: Robotic Mushroom Harvesting with Sean O'Connor of 4AG Robotics
May 22, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ 4AG Robotics: https://4ag.ai/ As you heard a bit about in last weeks episode, mushrooms are an incredible indoor crop with a ton of advantages and potential. But they are also extremely labor intensive. “When you have a crop that doubles in size every 24 hours, you're often picking mushrooms at the end of the shift because you know that they'll start colliding with other mushrooms or their caps will open up by th...
FoA 415: Farming Mycelium with Eben Bayer of Ecovative
May 15, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes - 46.6 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Ecovative: https://www.ecovative.com/ MyForest Foods: https://myforestfoods.com/ I’ve been meaning to do an episode on mushroom farming and mushroom technology for a long long time. But the right story just never presented itself. Then I got connected with Ecovative and about the same time got in touch with the subject of next weeks’ interview and all of a sudden I have two fascinating stories of fungi! And these...
FoA 414: Amie Thesingh on Leading Technology and Strategy at a 100 Year-Old Agribusiness
May 08, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Wilbur-Ellis: https://www.wilburellis.com/ Today's episode features Amie Thesingh, president of ag solutions and chief technology officer at Wilbur-Ellis. Today’s episode is a perfect compliment to last week’s episode with Brad Fruth of Beck’s Hybrids. Both Beck’s and Wilbur-Ellis are well-established family-owned companies that aren’t just resting on their laurels. They’re looking ahead and wanting to be on the cu...
FoA 413: Practical Farm Innovation With Brad Fruth of Beck's Hybrids
May 01, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Software is Feeding The World: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw Beck's Hybrids: https://www.beckshybrids.com/ The word “innovation” is tossed around quite a bit - I’m guilty of overusing it myself. But what does it mean? There’s probably no better person to dig into this question at least in agriculture than Beck’s Hybrids director of innovation Brad Fruth. “Ideas are cheap. Motivated people that are passionate...
FoA 412: 'Biological' Is Not A Category (it's the future of agriculture)
April 25, 2024 16:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ ELO Life: https://elolife.com/ Pairwise: https://www.pairwise.com/home New Leaf Symbiotics: https://www.newleafsym.com/ Harpe Bio: https://harpebio.com/ "Biologicals are ‘economically unfeasible’ According to Report: The Shortcomings and Opportunities" by Upstream Ag Insights: https://www.upstream.ag/p/biologicals-are-economically-unfeasible I considered a title for this episode that was something like “The B...
FoA 411: Making Technology Your Unfair Advantage with Lawrence King of Headstorm
April 18, 2024 20:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Today’s episode features Headstorm CEO Lawrence King. Lawrence has over 18 years of technology strategy consulting experience. He got his start in agtech with Farmlink over eight years ago where he built an engineering team. That company ran into some hard times, and Lawrence found himself with a talented team of engineers and no work to do. He tapped into his contacts in agtech looking for strategy and engineering t...
FoA 410: The Farm to Fashion Supply Chain With Paul Ensor of Hemprino
April 10, 2024 16:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Hemprino: https://www.hemprino.co.nz/ Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/ We’ve all heard the stats about how little of what consumers pay makes it back to the farmer or rancher. Some producers, like New Zealand sheep farmer Paul Ensor, are seizing the opportunity to capture more of that value. "A lot of farmers don't know where their produce goes once it leaves the farm gate, but we're v...
FoA 409: Is Agtech Entering A GenAI Era? Conversations From World Agri-Tech
April 04, 2024 02:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBHeadstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Bayer Announcement: https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/bayer-pilots-unique-generative-ai-tool-for-agriculture/ Bayer AgPowered Services: https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/bayer-collaboration-with-microsoft-connects-farm-data-to-address-lack-of-data-interoperability-in-agriculture/ Microsoft World Agri-Tech Reflections: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/sustainability/2024/04/02/world-agri-tech-2024-pione...
[Field Report] Paul Sullivan of P.T. Sullivan Agro on SWAT MAPS
March 29, 2024 08:00 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBSWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Follow Paul Sullivan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SullivanAgro These Field Report segments are short occasional episodes where we will hear from the people who actually use and hopefully benefit from the innovations we discuss on the show. We’ve already been doing this through the spotlight segments that have aired at the end of about one episode every month. I’ve really enjoyed these sort of customer testimonials that are provided from our quarterly p...
FoA 408: The Future of Precision Agriculture With Dr. Steve Shirtliffe and Dr. Preston Sorenson
March 27, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ University of Saskatchewan Precision Agriculture Certificate Program: https://admissions.usask.ca/precision-agriculture.php I wanted to have a conversation about cutting edge tools and the future of digital agriculture, and I definitely think we succeeded in bringing that to you today. Both Steve and Preston are thinking deeply about the best ways to collect and analyze data, think about variability, and utilize this deeper und...
FoA 407: Attracting Top Talent to Solve Agribusiness Problems with Christian Guffy of The Context Network
March 20, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ The Context Network: https://contextnet.com/ Today's episode features Christian Guffy of the Context Network. I wanted to bring Christian on the show to talk about talent and growing a client services firm. I think those are both interesting and important topics that I haven’t done a good job of covering on the show. In client services, which is the business I’m in with the consulting that I do, all you have to sell is your t...
[Field Report] Corteva Research Associate Brett McArtor on SWAT MAPS
March 15, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBSWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Corteva Agriscience: https://www.corteva.com/ These new Field Report segments are short occasional episodes where we will hear from the people who actually use and hopefully benefit from the innovations we discuss on the show. We’ve already been doing this through the spotlight segments that have aired at the end of about one episode every month. I’ve really enjoyed these sort of customer testimonials that are provided from our quarterly presenting sponso...
FoA 406: Health Trends Are Agricultural Opportunities...The Story of WonderCow
March 13, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ WonderCow: https://wondercow.com/ The Business of Food Newsletter: https://jenniferbarney.substack.com/ I believe that there are a lot of opportunities for those of us in agriculture in paying attention to food and health trends. I don’t personally love the term “food is medicine”, but obviously poor diet is a major cause of health problems, and we would all be better off to spend more of our time and probably our dollars pr...
FoA 405: From Fintech Startup to the Largest Produce Trader in the World With Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck of ProducePay
March 06, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ ProducePay: https://producepay.com/ Today's episode features ProducePay founder Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck. Born and raised in a 4th generation farming family from Mexico, Pablo brings over 20 years of experience in the fresh produce industry. After growing up on the family farm – Campos Borquez, a premier supplier of fresh asparagus and grapes to the United States and Canada – Pablo went on to work for The Giumarra Companies, m...
FoA 404: Digital Solutions for the Largest Ag Retailer in Latin America With Alex Wimbush
February 28, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Lavoro Agro: https://www.lavoroagro.com/ Software Is Feeding The World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw Work with Rhishi: https://www.metaldoglabs.ai/ Brazil has officially overtaken the US to become the top corn exporter in the world. And companies like Lavoro Agro are seizing a huge opportunity to bring more technology to Brazilian farmers. "A US corn farmer is gonna be two times more productive than that Braz...
FoA 403: Shrimpin' Ain't Easy with Steve Sutton of TransparentSea
February 21, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 55 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ TransparentSea: https://www.transparentseafarm.com/ [Video] "How America's Biggest Indoor Shrimp Farm Sells 2 Million Shrimp Every Year": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AK_RQ1uaGs [Video] "Tour of TransparentSea Farm's urban shrimp farm": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnyi1Sc6pk Today’s featured conversation is with Steve Sutton, founder and CEO of TransparentSEA Farm in Southern California. I’m excited to share this on...
FoA 402: How To Know When An Ag Company Is Ready For Growth With Jim Taylor of Forage Capital Partners
February 14, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Forage Capital Partners: https://foragecapitalpartners.com/ Jim Taylor of Forage Capital Partners. Jim has been involved with financing growth companies for over 20 years and has created and managed seven different funds prior to Forage. He was a founder of three growth equity funds, three subordinated debt funds, and the Farm Credit Canada Ventures direct investment program. Jim has raised and managed over $500 million dollars...
[Field Report] Crop Consultant Tyler Kessler shares his experience with SWAT MAPS
February 12, 2024 08:00 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Kessler Ag Ventures: https://kesslerag.ca/ FoA 398: The Evolution of Precision Agriculture with Cory Willness and Derek Massey of Croptimistic Technology This is the first installment of a new series of the podcast called "Field Reports", where we will hear from the people who actually use and hopefully benefit from the innovations we so regularly discuss on the show. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, because in...
FoA 401: Precision Irrigation With Arthur Chen of Verdi
February 07, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Verdi Ag: https://www.verdi.ag/ Arthur Chen is the CEO of Verdi, which is helping to climate-proofing agriculture with the world's first scalable platform to personalize healthcare for plants, helping the world's largest food brands radically optimize farm productivity and sustainability. In 2022, Verdi saved farmers over 7 million liters of water. Prior to Verdi, Arthur conducted precision agriculture research sponsored by Min...
FoA 400: Deeper Roots For Resilience and Carbon Sequestration with Michael Ott of Cquesta
January 31, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Cquesta website: https://cquesta.com/ FOA 200: Drones for Spraying, Seeding, and Pollinating with Rantizo Michael Ott is the CEO of Cquesta, a deep root trait company that helps crops tolerate stress and earns carbon credits to farmers with no change in agronomic practices. Michael is also the Founding CEO and Board Member at Rantizo, the nation's largest drone-spraying company. Before Rantizo, Michael worked in corporate ...
FoA 399: The Changing Farm Economy with David Widmar of Agricultural Economic Insights
January 24, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 50.8 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Agricultural Economic Insights: https://aei.ag/ AEI.ag Presents Podcast: https://aei.ag/podcast/ David Widmar is an agricultural economist specializing in agricultural trends and the farm economy. Through his research, he supports agribusinesses and farmers in their strategic and planning efforts. David is the Managing Partner of Agricultural Economic Insights, AEI.ag, which he co-founded with Dr. Brent Gloy in 2014. Prior to ...
FoA 398: The Evolution of Precision Agriculture with Cory Willness and Derek Massey of Croptimistic Technology
January 17, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Cory Willness on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-willness-78b76246/ Derek Massey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-massey-61aa909a/ SWAT Agronomy Podcast: Apple, Spotify FOA 211: Ground Truthing AgTech with Cory Willness: https://futureofagriculture.com/episode/foa-211-ground-truthing-agtech-with-cory-willness Cory Willness and Derek Massy are the co-founders of Croptimistic Technology, the creators ...
FoA 397: Can These Greenhouse Robots Grow The Best Strawberries in the World?
January 10, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MBVariable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Zordi: https://www.zordi.com/ Casey Call on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-call-03a3b03b/ Technology in agriculture can help reduce production costs and improve efficiencies, but it can also open up new possibilities for quality that goes beyond the average consumers’ expectations. “Our economic picture is to be able to capitalize on growing a better product and supplying a better product to the consumer, but al...
FoA 396: Mycorrhizal Fungi with Dr. Toby Kiers
January 03, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBTurn your data into actionable value with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Toby Kiers, PhD website: https://tobykiers.com/ Toby's TED TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwvaF3P_5Q&t=273s Scientists are discovering incredible interactions between plants' roots and soil dwelling fungi called mycorrhizal fungi. These relationships are integral to how plants function, including of course, our crops. But despite their importance to fundamental aspects of plant development, there's still so...
[History of Agriculture] The Great Beef Bonanza and the Fall of the Cattle Kingdom
December 29, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Prime Future Newsletter by Janette Barnard: https://primefuture.substack.com/ "Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West" by Christopher Knowlton: https://www.amazon.com/Cattle-Kingdom-Hidden-History-Cowboy/dp/1328470253/ref=sr_1_1 " It was a Darwinian struggle across the open range, as it often is in a capitalist society. A struggle to survive, to outcompete, to adapt on the fly, to changing circumstances brought on by new te...
FoA 395: Where is Agriculture Headed? Insights From Six Different Ag Podcasts
December 27, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Featured Podcast Episodes: "The Future of Ag is De-Globalized" on The Business of Agriculture "What an Aging, Shrinking Population Means for Ag (and Everyone Else)" on The Business of Agriculture "Marc Arnusch on how farmers are using ChatGPT" on Agtech...So What? "An Agtech Marketing Masterclass with Dan Schultz" on The Modern Acre "Crop Resilience Redefined: Power Pollen Revolutionizing Corn" on Farm4Profit "Driscoll's Global Commit...
FoA 394: Farm Equipment Innovations and Investments With Marc Kermisch of CNH Industrial
December 20, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ CNH Industrial: https://www.cnhindustrial.com/ FoA 349: Robotic Harvesting and Beyond with Kyle Cobb of advanced.farm FOA 180: The Journey of an AgTech Entrepreneur with Colin Hurd of Smart Ag Software is Feeding The World Upstream Ag Insights Marc Kermisch is the Industrial Global Chief Digital and Information Officer of CNH Industrial. Under his leadership, the Company’s Information Technology (IT) and Digital organizations are focuse...
FoA 393: The Farm Bill With Bart Fischer, Ph.D.
December 13, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Texas A&M Website: https://agecon.tamu.edu/people/fischer-bart/ Southern Ag Today: https://southernagtoday.org/ As we approach the end of 2023, one thing that many in agriculture thought would happen this year that hasn't is a new farm bill. "The farm bill attracts this outsized attention. It's carrying some baggage that probably was not envisioned, you know, 80 to a hundred years ago when this process was started." That's Dr. Bart Fish...
FoA 392: Ag Labor and Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition With Edward Silva of másLabor
December 06, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ másLabor: https://www.maslabor.com/ Edward Silva is the CEO of másLabor and AgWorks, the nation’s leading providers of H-2A (agriculture) and H-2B (non-agriculture) labor solutions. As one of six children of Portuguese immigrants, Edward and his brothers grew up farming in California's Central Valley for their family's almond and grape operation. Edward's academic background includes studies in International Agricultural Development at the ...
[History of Agriculture] Cyrus McCormick And The Birth Of Mechanical Harvesting
December 02, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ [Founders Podcast] #324 John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son) [Morgan Housel Podcast] "My New Book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes" Today’s combine harvesters are modern marvels capable of harvesting thousands of bushels per hour, including cutting, threshing, cleaning and capturing the grain. But the path from hand tools to the mechanical harvester is a fascinating one; which involved several farm shop...
FoA 391: The Path To Superhuman Farming with Curtis Garner and Brent Shedd of Verdant Robotics
November 29, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Rhishi Pethe's Software Is Feeding The World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw Verdant Robotics: https://www.verdantrobotics.com/ Verdant Robotics is offering a smart sprayer that helps farmers reduce labor and input costs. But don’t let the word “robotics” in the name fool you: their technology, although very cutting-edge, hooks right onto existing equipment like any other farm implement. “Here at Verdant we have a slogan cal...
FoA 390: Bridging Data Gaps with Carlos Hirsch of Eiwa
November 22, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Eiwa: https://eiwa.ag/ Today's episode features Carlos Hirsch, Chief Revenue Officer at Eiwa. Carlos is passionate about the intersection of agriculture, technology, and people. He has been in the Ag Industry for over 20 years and built an accomplished career in seed production, technology development and SaaS businesses. He has an agronomy degree from ESALQ in Piracicaba, Brazil and an Executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis,...
FoA 389: Modern Tree Crop Farming With Sawyer Clark of Gold Leaf Farming
November 15, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Gold Leaf Farming: https://www.goldleaf.ag/ Today’s episode features the Director of Asset Management at Gold Leaf Farming, Sawyer Clark. Gold Leaf was founded in 2017 by Brandon Rebiero and Jack McCarthy. Sawyer met Jack while they were both in business school at Stanford, and soon became a part of the team. In today’s episode, Sawyer and I talk about Gold Leaf’s model for investing in farming, specializing in just a few permanent crops,...
FoA 388: Agtech Reflections and Projections with David Friedberg and Louisa Burwood-Taylor
November 08, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ "10 years on from Climate Corp’s $1bn acquisition, David Friedberg reflects": https://agfundernews.com/david-friedberg-reflects-10-years-on-from-climate-corp-1bn-acquisition The Production Board: https://www.tpb.co/ Almost exactly 10 years ago, an acquisition was announced that caused many people in the technology and investment community to pay more attention to what was happening in agriculture: Monsanto was buying The Climate Corporatio...
FoA 387: Integrating Farm and Food to Make the World a Tastier Place
November 01, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Silver Spring Foods: https://www.silverspringfoods.com/ Today's episode features Eric Rygg of Silver Spring Foods. This is a fun story for me, not only because I like horseradish, which I definitely do. This is a story of what’s possible when you carve out a niche and make moves to vertically integrate. There are also some great insights here about product positioning both to consumers and to retailers, and some of the challenges and oppor...
FoA 386: Challenging Assumptions About Regenerative Agriculture With John Kempf
October 25, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Advancing Eco Agriculture: https://www.advancingecoag.com/ AEA's Equity Crowdfunding Campaign: https://wefunder.com/advancingecoag Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/ John Kempf on Twitter: https://twitter.com/realJohnKempf Today’s episode will challenge several commonly held assumptions about the future of agriculture. Take regenerative agriculture, which most define by the ability to improve so...
FoA 385: The Private Equity Playbook with Kevin Schwartz of Paine Schwartz Partners
October 18, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Paine Schwartz Partners: https://paineschwartz.com/ Today’s episode features Kevin Schwartz of Paine Schwartz Partners. This is a really interesting look at the food and ag industry from a totally different perspective. Kevin and his team are investors, but they’re not trying to invest in early stage startups like a venture capitalist would, or into farmland like other investors might. They focus on companies that already have proven their ...
FoA 384: Infinite Banking and Farming Without the Bank With Mary Jo Irmen
October 11, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Farming Without The Bank: https://www.farmingwithoutthebank.com/ "Becoming Your Own Banker" by R. Nelson Nash Farming Without The Bank Podcast Mary Jo Irmen is the author of the book Farming Without the Bank and a Infinite Banking Concept Practitioner who has set out to change how the farming industry is financed. She has helped farmers for 13 yrs see that there are financial solutions for them and the next generations. Mary Jo's mission ...
FoA 383: Artificial Intelligence That Adds Real Value to Farmers with Craig Ganssle
October 04, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBPut AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/ Follow Farmwave and Craig on Twitter FoA 237: Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture with Craig Ganssle of Farmwave: https://futureofagriculture.com/episode/foa-237-use-cases-for-artificial-intelligence-in-agriculture-with-craig-ganssle-of-farmwave Today's episode features Farmwave's harvest loss system, some broader perspective on artificial intelligence in agriculture, and how to build an agtech company that adds real value...
FoA 382: [History of Agriculture] Carl Bosch and the Agtech That Changed the World
September 29, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ "The Alchemy of Air" by Thomas Hager FoA 325: Electrified and Distributed Fertilizer Production with Nico Pinkowski of Nitricity FoA 337: Synthetic biology for nature-based and data-driven farming with Travis Bayer and Adam Litle of Sound Agriculture FoA 348: Investing in the Future of Fertilizer with Sarah Nolet of Tenacious Ventures FoA 370: [History of Agriculture] William J Morse, the Father of the US Soybean Industry We learned in eleme...
FoA 381: Is There An Anti-Farming Agenda?
September 28, 2023 14:00 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Claire Taylor: https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/scholars/2023/claire-taylor Claire Taylor grew up on a small beef farm on the west coast of Scotland and went on to study Politics and International Relations at Edinburgh University. She is a passionate storyteller and writer, with almost a decade of experience working with the BBC and the Scottish Farmer – first as a reporter and later as political editor. Claire and I discuss her current pursuit...
FoA 380: Equity Capital for Farmland with Ben Gordon and Kyle Mehmen
September 20, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Fractal Agriculture: https://fractal.ag/ Ben Gordon is the founder and CEO of Fractal Agriculture, a passive farmland investment partner that invests alongside farmers rather than competing against them for land. After serving as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army, Ben worked in ag tech, management consulting, and private equity due diligence before his most recent role leading Corteva Agriscience’s carbon program. Kyle Mehmen is a partner a...
FoA 379: The Farm Entrepreneur Mindset with Evan Shout of Maverick Ag
September 13, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Soy Innovation Challenge: https://www.thesoychallengelive.com/ Farmer Coach: https://farmercoach.ca/ Maverick Ag: https://maverickag.com/ Hebert Grain Ventures: https://hebertgrainventures.com/ FoA 302: Farm Business Strategy with Kristjan Hebert FoA 303: Implementing a Farm Operating System with Kristjan Hebert Evan Shout is the president and co-founder of Maverick Ag, a business consulting and risk management firm in Western Canada. He al...
FoA 378: Adventure Capitalism with Legendary Investor and Author Jim Rogers
September 06, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ More About Jim Rogers: https://www.jimrogers.com/ Today’s episode features Jim Rogers. I will first admit that this episode is pretty selfish. I found Jim’s books, particularly “Investment Biker” “Adventure Capitalist” and “Hot Commodities” in college when I was trying to figure out where my interests were and where I might like to start my career. I already had an interest in agriculture, international travel, and investing, so they had a huge ...
FoA 377: Leveraging Data to Advance Cattle Genetics With Lee Leachman
August 30, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/ Leachman Cattle of Colorado: https://leachman.com/ URUS: https://www.urus.org/ In agriculture, we have exponentially more examples of people collecting data than we do of people using data to unlock real value supported by real dollars. Cattle genetics company Leachman Cattle is one of those few who demonstrated the ability to do just that. "You know, we kinda had set our own course ...
FoA 377: Leveraging Data to Advance in Cattle Genetics With Lee Leachman
August 30, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/ Leachman Cattle of Colorado: https://leachman.com/ URUS: https://www.urus.org/ In agriculture, we have exponentially more examples of people collecting data than we do of people using data to unlock real value supported by real dollars. Cattle genetics company Leachman Cattle is one of those few who demonstrated the ability to do just that. "You know, we kinda had set our own course ...
FoA 376: Agroforestry on Commercial Midwest Farms with Kevin Wolz of Canopy FM
August 23, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBSoy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Canopy Farm Management: https://canopyfm.com/ Savanna Institute: https://www.savannainstitute.org/ Kevin Wolz and I talk about the fundamentals of agroforestry, their potential in the midwest, what these systems look like, and the barriers and opportunities to agroforestry becoming a bigger part of the future of agriculture, especially in the midwest where Kevin is focused. In 2013, Kevin co-founded the Savanna Institute, a non-profit organiz...