Variable 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 Mineral...
Feb 07, 2024•31 min•Ep. 401
Variable 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 corpora...
Jan 31, 2024•38 min•Ep. 400
Variable 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 AEI,...
Jan 24, 2024•37 min
Variable 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 of SW...
Jan 17, 2024•43 min
Variable 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 als...
Jan 10, 2024•36 min
Turn 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...
Jan 03, 2024•39 min
Put 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 technol...
Dec 29, 2023•53 min
Put 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...
Dec 27, 2023•46 min
Put 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 focused on del...
Dec 20, 2023•46 min
Put 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 Fisher,...
Dec 13, 2023•41 min
Put 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 Univ...
Dec 06, 2023•39 min
Put 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 innov...
Dec 02, 2023•35 min
Put 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 call...
Nov 29, 2023•47 min
Put 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, Mis...
Nov 22, 2023•41 min
Put 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,...
Nov 15, 2023•39 min
Put 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 Corporation, w...
Nov 08, 2023•38 min
Put 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 opportunit...
Nov 01, 2023•48 min
Put 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 soil a...
Oct 25, 2023•50 min
Put 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 prod...
Oct 18, 2023•43 min
Put 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 is to ...
Oct 11, 2023•45 min
Put 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 to f...
Oct 04, 2023•40 min
Soy 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 elementary sch...
Sep 29, 2023•31 min
Soy 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: to ...
Sep 28, 2023•42 min
Soy 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...
Sep 20, 2023•41 min
Soy 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 also sit...
Sep 13, 2023•47 min
Soy 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 impa...
Sep 06, 2023•38 min
Soy 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 to ana...
Aug 30, 2023•41 min
Soy 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...
Aug 23, 2023•45 min
Soy Checkoff : https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Dr. Paige Stanley's website : https://paige-stanley.com/ FoA 222: Digging Deeper Into Regenerative Agriculture with Paige Stanley : https://future-of-agriculture.captivate.fm/episode/foa-222-digging-deeper-into-regenerative-agriculture-with-paige-stanley Metrics, Management, and Monitoring (3M) Project : https://www.noble.org/3m/ Dr. Paige Stanely is an interdisciplinary scientist working to understand how grazing management can sequester carbon in s...
Aug 16, 2023•40 min
Soy Checkoff : https://www.unitedsoybean.org/ Sustain-A-Grain : https://www.sustainagrain.com/ The Land Institute : https://landinstitute.org/ Today’s episode features Peter Miller and Brandon Schlautman, Ph.D. of Sustain-A-Grain. Sustain-A-Grain has a two-part mission: to introduce consumers to Kernza® perennial grain and to support family farms in growing Kernza®. The team has been growing Kernza® themselves for nearly 5 years in close collaboration with The Land Institute—where Kernza® was fi...
Aug 09, 2023•41 min
