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 275: Digital Infrastructure for Ag Supply Chains with Jake Joraanstad and Jesse Vollmar of Bushel
September 08, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBVisit Bushel online: https://bushelpowered.com/ Today’s episode takes a peak inside one of the hottest agtech companies to come along in recent years: Bushel. I’ve known about Bushel for a couple of years now, and originally just understood them to be a company that was digitizing scale tickets, which is actually how they started. Scale tickets, for those of you who don’t know, are the paper receipt that accompanies a load of an agricultural commodity that usually includes how much was del...
FoA 274: [Tech-Enabled Advisor Series] Precision Ag with Jonathan Zettler of Fieldwalker Agronomy
September 01, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes - 45.4 MBLearn more about SWAT Maps: https://www.swatmaps.com/ Fieldwalker Agronomy: https://fieldwalker.ca/ Jonathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZRAgri Today’s episode is all about precision agriculture, so if you’re into agronomy and variable rate technology, or what our guest would prefer to call optimal rate technology, you’re in for a real treat. If these terms are new to you, at a basic level we are talking about technology that is being used to understand the variability of a field...
FoA 273: Designing the Seeds of the Future with Ponsi Trivisvavet of Inari
August 25, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBInari: https://inari.com/ "From Farms to Incubators" book: https://bookshop.org/books/from-farms-to-incubators-women-innovators-revolutionizing-how-our-food-is-grown/9781610355759 We have on the show Ponsi Trivisvavet, who is the CEO of Inari, the SEEDesign company that uses predictive design and advanced multiplex gene editing to unlock the full potential of seed to build a more sustainable future for the food system. Ponsi joined Inari in 2018 when they were just over a year old. ...
FoA 272: The Future of Food with Jack Bobo
August 18, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBwww.futurityfood.com www.linkedin.com/in/jackbobo www.twitter.com/Jack_a_Bobo TED Talk: Why we fear the food we eat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiOicCQRWY White paper: The role of innovation in transforming the food system: https://animalagalliance.org/resource/white-paper-the-role-of-innovation-in-transforming-the-global-food-system/ I have on the show a guest whose work I’ve followed for a long time, and someone who I’ve connected with a handful of times over the years, and am rea...
FoA 271: Ag Robotics Roundtable
August 11, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBSWARMFarm Robotics https://www.swarmfarm.com/ Burro https://burro.ai/ Farmwise https://farmwise.io/ ZTractor https://ztractor.com/ Carbon Robotics https://carbonrobotics.com/ TerraClear https://www.terraclear.com/ Today’s episode is going to be a highlight reel from a virtual event I hosted for the FoA community. That event was an ag robotics roundtable, which featured six robotics companies to have a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of bringing more automati...
FoA 270: Produce Technology and Digitizing Taste
August 04, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBPMA Takes on Tech: https://www.pma.com/content/podcast/takes-on-tech Aromyx: https://www.aromyx.com/ Today's two part episode starts off with a higher-level picture of the innovations in produce with Vonnie Estes, vice president of technology for the Produce Marketing Association. Then we’ll drill deeper into one aspect of food quality, arguably the most important aspect of food quality: flavor. For that we’ll talk to Josh Silverman, CEO of Aromyx, a company that is digitizing taste and sm...
FoA 269: [Tech-Enabled Advisor Series] Cooperatives Embrace Digital Tools with KC Graner of Central Farm Service
July 28, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 53.6 MBThis episode is brought to you by AgVend (www.AgVend.com) Today’s installment of our Tech-Enabled Advisor series is really an insightful look at how a farmer-owned cooperative is leaning into the digital changes that are happening in our industry to remain relevant and provide value to their farmer shareholders. KC Graner is the senior vice president of agronomy at Central Farm Service, a co-op in southern Minnesota. As an advocate of the cooperative system, KC has spent his career embed...
FoA 268: California Water and the Future of Sustainable Irrigation
July 21, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBToday’s episode is broken down into three parts: first, a brief primer on some of the issues contributing to the issues in California. Second, one potential hydrological solution going forward: groundwater recharge. And finally, we’ll talk about water markets by highlighting the new Nasdaq Veles California Water Index. To help me tell each of these three stories I have for you three different guests that you’ll hear from today: Dr. Safeeq Khan, Dr. Helen Dahlke, and Lance Coogan. You c...
FoA 267: Tapping into the Microbiome for Animal Health with Chris Belnap of Resilient Biotics
July 14, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 53.6 MBResilient Biotics: https://resilientbiotics.com/ Fulcrum Global Capital: https://www.fgcvc.com/ My guest on today’s show is Chris Belnap, the CEO of Resilient Biotics, which is an early-stage animal health company that develops microbiome-derived, live therapeutics for livestock. In other words, they analyze the microbes that naturally live inside of cattle, then they administer those that are most beneficial to make the cattle more resilient to certain diseases. Specifically they are f...
FoA 266: Microsoft Wants to Democratize Data-Driven Agriculture
July 07, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBRanveer Chandra: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/ranveer/ Overview of Azure FarmBeats: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/industry/agriculture/overview-azure-farmbeats FarmBeats: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/bill-gates-features-farmbeats-on-gatesnotes/ Microsoft has been making waves in the agtech industry with its FarmBeats project and Azure cloud computing service. That effort can be traced back to 2015 when today’s guest, Ranveer Chandr...
FoA 265: Climate, Land Use, and Agriculture with Richard Waite of the World Resources Institute
June 30, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 62.7 MBWorld Resources Institute: https://www.wri.org/ Follow Rich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/waiterich Recent blog post: https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/08/us-agriculture-emissions-food More from Rich: https://www.wri.org/profile/richard-waite Our guest today has spent years diving into this question of the environmental impacts of the food system, and what can be done to optimize the amount of food that gets produced and distributed, while minimizing the negative externalities of tha...
FoA 264: [Tech-Enabled Advisor Series] Drone Technology with Todd Vagts of Bayer Crop Science
June 23, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 53.6 MBThanks to FieldAgent by Sentera for sponsoring. Visit https://sentera.com/. On today’s episode I’m joined by Todd Vagts who is a technical agronomist for the Channel Seed brand which is part of Bayer Crop Science. Based in southeast Minnesota, Todd works with Channel salespeople and seed dealers (who they called “Seedsmen”), to make sure they are up to date with technologies and to problem-solve in the field. Todd is a farmer as well - lives 30 minutes from the farm where he grew up. Todd...
FoA 263: Better Ingredients for Processed Foods with Joanne Zhang
June 16, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBToday’s episode highlights two interesting consumer trends in food and agriculture. And on the surface, these two trends seem to be going in totally opposite directions, but not necessarily as you’ll hear from our guest today. The first trend is the increasing desire for healthier, simpler, more nutritious food. The second is that demand for processed food is strong and getting stronger. You might be thinking, wait aren’t those two things complete opposites? Well, not necessarily. Our ...
FoA 262: Specialty Crops and Agtech with Allan Fetters
June 09, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBMy guest today, Allan Fetters, is a third generation agriculturalist who has worked in agribusiness for over 30 years. I say agriculturalist, because he was not born into a farm family, but a family that has been working selling products to farmers. However, he recently also started doing some farming himself in addition to his consulting. In today’s episode, I try to glean as many insights as I can from Allan’s vast experience in agriculture technology. We touch many of the important asp...
FoA 261: The Digital Dairy with Jordan Lambert of VAS
June 02, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 48.8 MBToday’s episode is all about data and technology for the modern dairy. But even if you’re not specifically interested in the dairy industry, you’re going to want to stick around. And here’s why: one of the big challenges to agtech is the long feedback loop. You try a technology out for an entire year and you get one shot - harvest to see how it performed. Dairy is way different. That scorecard happens three times per day when the cows are milked. This rapid feedback loop has allowed dairies ...
FoA 260: The Lentil Underground with Dave Oien of Timeless Seeds
May 26, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MBPLEASE COMPLETE OUR LISTENER SURVEY: https://airtable.com/shrCB33GWIUCIxVRU Today you’re going to get to hear the story of Dave Oien of Timeless Seeds and Timeless Food. He shares how he figured out how to convert to organic when very few thought it was possible, then how we built a seed business that ultimately became a food business. And make sure you stay to the end for some really interesting comments about resiliency. Dave returned to the farm in Montana and convinced his dad in th...
FoA 259: [Tech-Enabled Advisor Series] Shannon Winny, Owner and Senior Agronomist at GroWest Ag Ventures
May 19, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 49.9 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by FarmQA (www.FarmQA.com) Today’s guest is Shannon Winny with GroWest Ag Ventures in Central Saskatchewan. She is a Professional Agronomist and a Certified Crop Advisor. About 18 months ago she decided to start her own company to meet the need for independent agronomy services in Saskatchewan. Farming is a team sport. Certainly nobody shares the same risk profile as a farmer, but every successful farmer that I can think of has strong relationships with...
FoA 258: The Power of Peptides with Anna Rath and Ben Cicora from Vestaron
May 12, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 50.1 MBCheck out the SWAT Agronomy Podcast on any podcast platform! Please participate in our listener survey to help us focus the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/shrCB33GWIUCIxVRU If you’ve ever tried to grow any food crop - shoot, even a garden - you know that insect pests are unavoidable. Over the past 100 years, chemical pesticides have been developed as efficient and cost effective ways for farmers to manage these pests. But as I’m sure you know, they are not without their d...
FoA 257: Bringing Ag Innovation to the Desert with HE Dr. Tariq bin Hendi
May 05, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes - 50.7 MBPlease participate in our listener survey to help us focus the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/shrCB33GWIUCIxVRU While we here in the U.S. have an agricultural system built upon exports, while our guest today lives in Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates which currently imports 80% of their food. What we view here as needed viable technology to create a more sustainable agriculture is likely to be different there. We have on the show His Excellency Dr. Tariq Bin Hen...
FoA 256: Agtech Collaboration and Data-Driven Decision Agriculture with Jim Ethington of Arable
April 28, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBCheck out the SWAT Agronomy Podcast on any podcast platform! Please participate in our listener survey to help us focus the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/shrCB33GWIUCIxVRU Over the past decade, one of the areas agriculture has changed significantly is in the number of available digital tools that can be used on the farm. On the surface this is a great thing, but if - and only if - these tools are easy to use and produce actionable results. And even then, a farmer is only...
FoA 255: [Tech-Enabled Advisor Series] Matt Larson, Agronomy Sales Manager at CHS
April 21, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBToday’s episode is brought to you by FieldAgent by Sentera. One key piece of the agtech conversation that often gets overlooked is the most likely customer for a lot of digital tools may not actually be a farmer. For many of them, an advisor to that farmer may be the one actually performing that task, and may have the biggest vested interest in adopting cutting-edge technologies. We’re calling this little mini-series “The Tech-Enabled Advisor.” We will profile some of the farmers’ advis...
FoA 254: The Digitization of Global Agribusiness with Syngenta Chief Information Officer Greg Meyers
April 14, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBPlease participate in our listener survey to help us focus the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/shrCB33GWIUCIxVRU Today we get a unique global view into agtech and agribusiness. We are joined by Greg Meyers, who is the Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer of Syngenta based at their world headquarters in Switzerland. Most of you are familiar with Syngenta but you may or may not know they are the largest crop protection company in the world and the third largest see...
FoA 253: Social E-commerce and Gamifying Groceries with Xin Yi Lim of Pinduoduo
April 07, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBPlease participate in our listener survey to help us focus the direction of the show: https://airtable.com/shrCB33GWIUCIxVRU E-commerce is nothing new. I think all of us have probably bought more online than ever this past year. But the company we’re featuring today, Pinduoduo, has taken this to a whole other level by gamifying e-commerce and making it a social experience. A big part of their strategy is selling agricultural products online. One of the biggest drivers changing the future...
FoA 252: Local Meat Processing, Marketing and Logistics with Adam Parks
March 31, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBThanks to the Field Work podcast for sponsoring this episode. Visit www.FieldWork.org to learn more. Interest in local and regional food systems has been trending upward for a long time. The pandemic has only accelerated consumer interest in having strong relationships with where they buy their food. But what sounds easy on the outside: farmer produces food and consumer buys it - is much more complicated in practice. First of all, there aren’t enough local/regional slaughterhouses for liv...
[Bonus] Ag Labor and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act with Shay Myers and Representative Cliff Bentz
March 30, 2021 00:14 - 18 minutes - 26.4 MBThe reason for today’s special episode is The Farm Workforce Modernization Act that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now moving on to the Senate. This legislation is an effort to make progress on the mess that is U.S. ag labor policy. Shay Myers, a farmer who was featured on this show back in episode 178, called me to talk about the importance of this bill to U.S. farmers and their employees. In fact, over 300 agricultural organizations supported the bill. Ag labor re...
FoA 251: Agtech Opportunities in Developing Markets with Igor Buchatskiy
March 24, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBThanks to the FieldWork podcast for sponsoring this episode. Visit www.FieldWork.org to learn more. This episode is a good follow up to Episode 250 about one example of how agtech is helping smallholder farmers in developing countries. We are again talking about the potential for agtech in developing markets in this episode, but this time from a different perspective. My guest Igor Buchatskiy sees real opportunities in very large integrated agricultural operations. Whereas last week w...
FoA 250: Helping Smallholder Farmers Manage Risk with Sonu Agrawal of Weather Risk Management Services
March 17, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MBThanks to the FieldWork podcast for sponsoring this episode. Visit www.FieldWork.org to learn more. We talk a lot about the types of technologies that are geared towards larger operations, but what’s out there that has the potential to really improve the lives of small farmers, especially of those in developing countries. We have a really interesting example of one of these innovations in this episode. Weather Risk Management Services is an India-based company that collects data to help p...
FoA 249: A Global Perspective on Tree Nuts with The Almond Doctor
March 10, 2021 15:00 - 46 minutes - 64.7 MBThanks to the FieldWork podcast for sponsoring this episode. Visit www.FieldWork.org to learn more. David Doll is the General Manager of Rota Unica Agriculture based in Portugal. He grew up on a direct-to-consumer apple and peach orchard in southern Indiana, then got a master’s degree in plant pathology from UC Davis. After a decade as a farm advisor for the University of California focused on tree nuts, he took on his current role of moving to Portugal to manage a large-scale diversified...
FoA 248: Regrow Merges Agronomic Insights with Sustainability Metrics
March 03, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBWe can all agree that sustainability that comes at the expense of productivity and efficiency is not truly sustainable at all. We are going to need to meld together what’s best for the productivity and profitability of growers with the ecosystem services they can provide. Just recently agtech company FluroSat announced that they acquired another agtech company, Dagan, and the combined company was re-branded to a new name: Regrow. You might remember FluroSat founder Anastasia Volkova from ...
FoA 247: How to Stop Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
February 24, 2021 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBThe question of “what are the real problems in agriculture that need to be solved?” is one we ask often here on this show. If you ask that to a dozen people, you’ll probably get about 20 different answers. But herbicide resistance is one that hits home for many. As you’re about to hear, the tools we’ve been using for decades are becoming less and less effective, and the pipeline for new active ingredients has been empty for a long time. Every year more and more weeds show signs of resistance...
FoA 246: Unlocking Grazing Potential with Virtual Fencing
February 17, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBToday Janette Barnard co-hosts to bring us an innovative virtual fencing product for cattle ranchers. Frank Wooten joins us as the founder of Vence. Vence offers producers optionality in their grazing operations whether large or small. This technology provides for rotational grazing opportunities while bridging obstacles such as large uneven terrain, poor connectivity and weather dynamics. The ramifications of this opportunity may allow US producers to better compete in the grass fed and gra...
FoA 245: Agtech Product Strategy with Climate Corp Chief Product Officer Ranjeeta Singh
February 10, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBToday’s show connects back to episode 241 with Craig Rupp of Sabanto, where we talked about, among many other things, how the Climate Corp has been able to become a central data collection platform on so many large scale farms. Ranjeeta Singh, the Chief Product Officer of The Climate Corp joins us to further explore data ownership, product strategy and design thinking. Ranjeeta was hired last year to drive the product strategy and roadmap for Climate’s digital farming solutions. She has mor...
FoA 244: Farm Data Analytics with Aaron Gault of Advanced Agrilytics
February 03, 2021 16:15 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBThis is one of two short episodes I’m releasing for you today, both exploring some aspect of farm data. You may have already listened to the first part with Dr. Terry Griffin at Kansas State University. Now we turn our attention to another Purdue graduate, Aaron Gault, cofounder and agronomy manager of Advanced Agrilytics. Advanced Agrilytics offers agronomy services equipped with their analytics platform, which helps farmer customers get a better picture of what’s working and not working ...
FoA 243: Farm Data Economics with Terry Griffin, Ph.D.
February 03, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 32.1 MBFor the first time, I’m releasing two episodes on the same day. I’ve trimmed each of the two episodes down to about half of my normal length so the total time commitment on your part is still about the same as a regular week, but if you’re a subscriber, you probably already noticed, there are two today. There’s a few reasons for this, but mostly it’s to try something new. This isn’t something I’m planning to keep doing on a regular basis, but maybe occasionally, if you like it, so let me ...
FoA 242: Regenerative Research and Demonstration with Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D.
January 27, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBBig shoutout to two new members of the FoA community this week, Italo Guedes and Sara Faivre, thank you both for your involvement and support. If you’d like to support this show and join a community of some really smart people passionate about ag, you can do so at www.patreon.com/agriculture. For years, I have been on a somewhat public quest to understand regenerative agriculture. Where is the line between regenerative and not regenerative? Are these claims I’m hearing of more profit with...
FoA 241: From Drives to Driverless with Craig Rupp of Sabanto
January 20, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 50 MBCraig Rupp is the CEO and founder of Sabanto. Prior to founding Sabanto he was a cofounder of 640 Labs where FieldView Drive was originally created. The first part of today’s episode will be about Craig’s journey at 640 Labs and its eventual acquisition by Climate Corp. Despite all of these impressive innovations and industry game-changers, that’s not the only thing he joins us to share about today. His current project, Sabanto, is gaining momentum and continuing to develop its autonomous tr...
FoA 240: Conservation Agriculture at Scale with Jason Weller of Truterra
January 13, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 54.4 MBIn recent years, the idea of farmers getting paid based on stewardship has really taken off. Whether that’s the discussion of companies paying for carbon sequestration, soil conservation, water quality or any other number of “ecosystem services”, it seems to be a trend that is not going away any time soon. But how much real demand is there for this vs. just marketing and PR? Obviously, we all want cleaner air and water, but who is lining up to pay for it to create the right incentives to mak...
FoA 239: Sensors for Predicting Grain Quality with Naeem Zafar of TeleSense
January 06, 2021 16:00 - 39 minutes - 56.3 MBToday we are joined by Naeem Zafar. Naeem is a 7x serial entrepreneur and 5x CEO, with multiple successful exits. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, an IoT company creating real-time wireless sensing and predictive analytics for the stored grain industry. TeleSense is a portfolio company of Fulcrum Global Capital and adds to their story that we have had the privilege to share with you so far. A lot of the attention has been paid to sensors in agronomy with soil, water, et...
FoA 238: 5 Barriers Limiting Agtech (and the companies breaking through them)
December 30, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBAround the new year I like to reflect on previous episodes and pull out insights that I think are important for the future of agriculture. As I reflected on the content from this past year, an insight became immediately clear: agtech has a long way to go. As much as we talk about the money that has poured into the industry and how much potential there is for the future of agriculture, progress has been, by most measures, slow. And change - in a lot of cases - has been minimal. This isn’t ...
FoA 237: Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture with Craig Ganssle of Farmwave
December 23, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutes - 57.8 MBCheck out another great ag podcast: www.OffIncome.com. Today’s episode is really one of those that I think embodies my vision for this show. It’s the vision you just heard me reference: where we take innovative ideas, in this case artificial intelligence, and we look at the point in which the meet practical realities. The reason this is so important to me, is: first, it’s so much easier to learn and understand new technologies by observing their use cases. And secondly, I am convinced t...
FoA 236: A Call for Startups to the Cattle Feeding Industry
December 16, 2020 16:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MBOne of the biggest criticisms of ag tech and really many ag innovations in general is they often seem to be a solution that is looking for a problem rather than the alternative. This mismatch is often doomed to fail leaving many ag entrepreneurs frustrated. The Beef Alliance is trying to change that in the cattle feeding industry through their program called Feeding Innovation, a Beef Alliance Startup Challenge. The Beef Alliance wants smart entrepreneurial, problem solvers to see real poten...
FoA 235: The Fastest Growing Tilapia Farm in Africa
December 09, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBVictory Farms is a Tilapia farming operation on Lake Victoria in Kenya. Since it was founded in 2015 it has become the largest fish farm in East Africa and is now the fastest growing Tilapia Farm in all of Africa. Joseph Rehmann is the CEO and founder of Victoria Farms and joins us today to share his journey towards becoming an innovative entrepreneur in Kenya with an environmentally sustainable aquaculture operation. “It really felt like an opportunity to be where I wanted to be, in ...
FoA 234: What Data do Farmers Trust? In10t Series Finale
December 02, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBThis is the series finale of exploring agtech adoption with In10t. Co-founder and COO Kevin Heikes joins as co-host to setup this episode which features Josh Miller and Elizabeth Blessum from BASF. Make sure you listen to the other three episodes in the series: FoA 226: The Problem with Farm Data FoA 215: Bridging the Gap Between Farmers and Agtech FoA 194: Accelerating Agtech Kevin reflects on the journey of founding In10t and what we’ve covered in these episodes as well as in his...
FoA 233: Walmart Reinvents Their Beef Supply Chain
November 25, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 65.3 MBBack by popular demand is guest co-host Janette Barnard. She co-hosted on episode 225 about direct-to-consumer meat, and is back today with Lamar Steiger, a consultant who is helping Walmart rethink their beef supply chain. They’re doing some really innovative stuff trying to improve quality and create shared value. Janette is the author of Prime Future, a weekly newsletter about trends in the animal protein value chain, and she’s the managing principal of Rock Road Consulting helping comp...
FoA 232: Are Agtech and Regenerative Agriculture Aligned?
November 18, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 55.3 MBVisit another great podcast: www.OffIncome.com. Are agtech and regenerative agriculture at odds? Regenerative is committed to working WITH nature, and agtech is often trying to manipulate nature in some way. Agtech is often automating and trying to displace human capital, when regenerative is often trying to bring people back to the land. Agtech often includes buying new hardware or paying a monthly as a service fee, when regenerative is trying to rely as much as possible on what can be g...
FoA 232: Are Agtech and Regenerative Agriculture Aligned?
November 18, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 55.3 MBVisit our sponsor: www.OffIncome.com. Are agtech and regenerative agriculture at odds? Regenerative is committed to working WITH nature, and agtech is often trying to manipulate nature in some way. Agtech is often automating and trying to displace human capital, when regenerative is often trying to bring people back to the land. Agtech often includes buying new hardware or paying a monthly as a service fee, when regenerative is trying to rely as much as possible on what can be generated a...
FoA 231: Fixing Nitrogen with Karsten Temme of Pivot Bio
November 11, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBVisit our sponsor: www.OffIncome.com. Today’s episode is a great example of true agricultural innovation. Most of you know our food system is heavily dependent on chemical fertilizers to efficiently get nutrients, especially nitrogen to most of our crops. However, some of those crops, think legumes like soybeans, pulses, and peanuts, have a symbiotic relationship with fungi that enable nitrogen fixation from the air and make it available for the plant. Today’s guest asked the question,...
FoA 230: Agtech is Booming in Brazil with Francisco Jardim of SP Ventures
November 04, 2020 16:00 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MB“We’re going to bring a lot of new, interesting, innovations leapfrogging across the world.” - Francisco Jardim Today we explore an international agtech powerhouse, Brazil. And we have the perfect guest to talk about the developing agtech ecosystem in the country, Francisco Jardim. Francisco is the Founding Partner at SP Ventures which invests across multiple industries, but as you’ll hear, he has particular expertise in agtech. Francisco has been investing with SP Ventures for over 13...
FoA 229: NanoGuard is Reducing Food Waste and Improving Food and Feed Safety
October 28, 2020 15:00 - 39 minutes - 60.3 MBTypically when we think of food waste we imagine processed food ending up in the landfill. In this episode we explore a solution to reduce crop waste caused by microbes, mycotoxins or viral particles. Nanoguard Technologies has developed a device to reduce the microbial load without any residue or additional chemical input. Larry Clarke is the CEO of Nanoguard Technologies and joins us today to share the advances the company is making. “Being able to reduce these mycotoxins saves the f...
FOA 228: Solving the Rural Connectivity Problem with Dr. Sara Spangelo of Swarm
October 21, 2020 15:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBRural locations often have limited connectivity to cellular data. Dr. Sara Spangelo is the CEO and co-founder of Swarm Technologies. Their company launches constellations of small, sandwich-sized, low cost, two-way satellites into lower orbit space to provide affordable global connectivity. Different space programs offer them access to launching their devices including Space-X and Vega among others. “That will provide us with a network of 150 satellites for global continuous coverage - c...