Latest Smartfarming Podcast Episodes

The Intensely Tasty, No Harm Sausage - New Age Meats

Forward Food Tech Podcast - November 29, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Today our guest is Brian Spears, the Founder and CEO of New Age Meats. What's fascinating about New Age Meats is that they are combining plant-based ingredients with cultured animal meat. This way, Brian says, you get the best of both worlds: the sensory experience and irreplaceable flavour of m...

Crypto Tokens to Reward Climate-Smart Farmers - Bx

Forward Food Tech Podcast - September 30, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Today our guests are Antony Yousefian and Sadia Ahmed from Bx. Bx is building a two-sided marketplace that connects growers who want to store more carbon in the soil with corporates who need to offset their carbon emissions. It is farm-inspired blockchain technology, incentivising growers to cha...

Algae as a Cost-Effective, Carbon Net-Zero Biofertiliser - TrueAlgae

Forward Food Tech Podcast - July 29, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Today our guests are Nathaniel Jackson and Angela Tsetsis from True Algae, a company that is at the forefront of innovation with algae bio fertilisers, aiming to increase farmer productivity in a cost-effective carbon net-zero way. Nathaniel has been CEO of TrueAlgae since 2017. He worked at t...

#7 - Kasi McReddie: Bridging the Gap Between Farming & Tech - Agri-Epi Centre

Forward Food Tech Podcast - May 18, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode, our guest is Kasi McReddie. Kasi is the Business Development Manager for Livestock & Aquaculture at the Agri-Epi Centre. Kasi comes from a dairy farming background and has specific expertise in biotech solutions to animal and environmental health challenges. The Agri-EPI Centre...

#6 - David Farquhar: Can Vertical Farming Tech Solve Horticulture's Challenges?

Forward Food Tech Podcast - April 20, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode, our guest is David Farquhar, CEO of IGS. IGS is an agritech business that started in 2013, revolutionising the indoor growing market. David joined the team in November 2017 and successfully raised a £7 million series A funding round and total investment to date of £13.8 million....

#5 - Giancarlo Addario: Food Tech VC - Raising Investment for FoodTech Businesses

Forward Food Tech Podcast - March 24, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This is the second episode of our series of podcasts focusing on venture capital raising. We're speaking to a special guest - Giancarlo Addario, principal at Five Seasons Ventures. What do VC's care about most when investing in a foodtech business? What are the growing trends in FoodTech? Gianca...

#4 - Shubhang Shankar: Corporate VC - Raising Investment for Agri-FoodTech Businesses

Forward Food Tech Podcast - March 04, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This is the first episode of our series of podcasts, focusing on Venture Capital raising. In this episode, we're speaking with our special guest Shubhang Shankar, managing director of Syngenta Ventures and we'll focus on the topic of corporate venture capital for AgTech & FoodTech businesses, ex...

#3 - Jim McDougall: Machine Learning Drone Systems Improving Profitability for Fruit Growers

Forward Food Tech Podcast - January 26, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In today's episode, we're speaking with Jim McDougall, Co-Founder and Commercial Director at Outfield. Outfield enables growers to rapidly image fruit crops with self-flying drones, then receive yield forecasts and productivity maps from a cloud-based machine learning system.  Jim, along with ...

#2 - Daniel Baertschi - The Future of Carbon Farming

Forward Food Tech Podcast - January 13, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
We’re going to be digging deep into the hot topic of Carbon Farming. Our guest is Daniel Baertschi. Daniel is an expert in the field of regenerative agriculture and works all over Europe, the US and Australia. He’s passionate about farming and how we can make it the solution for climate change....

#1 - Ian Wheal: How Data is Transforming Live-Stock Supply Chains

Forward Food Tech Podcast - December 14, 2020 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode, we're speaking to Ian Wheal - CEO of Breedr. Breedr is a live-stock supply chain technology looking to digitise existing live-stock supply chains.  The big picture is that farmers are being asked to collect data for the supply chain, and do reporting for various organisations b...