This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates McCain's Farms of the Future Hot Potato Podcast Today’s episode features Dr. Michelle D’Souza. Michelle is the Manager of Research and Innovation for McCain’s Farm of the Future Project. In this role, her mission is to empower McCain on its journey to developing sustainable corporate frameworks that benefit society and nature through regenerative agriculture. Some of you may k...
Mar 06, 2025•38 min•Ep 456•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Subscribe to Janette Barnard's Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/ Connect with Ian Lahiffe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-lahiffe-25165b1a/ If you had to make a shortlist of the key drivers of the global agricultural commodity trade over the past 30 years, one of the top drivers would most certainly be China. " The Chinese livestock indust...
Feb 27, 2025•43 min•Ep 455•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Today’s special episode is what I like to call a spotlight. Instead of our normal format of a 40 minute long form interview, it’s just a short peak into something interesting. The topics for these spotlights are determined in collaboration with our quarterly presenting sponsor, which this quarter is Case IH. If you listened to our last spotlight with Dan Klein about a month ag...
Feb 25, 2025•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Download the Agtech Alchemy Quarterly: https://agtechalchemy.substack.com/p/agtech-alchemy-quarterly-winter2025 GenAI Whitepaper: https://www.rhishipethe.com/genai-in-ag Today's episode features the founding members of Agtech Alchemy. This format is a little different from our normal show. It’s a lot less formal, you’ll hear some jokes and laughter, but really it’s just four g...
Feb 19, 2025•46 min•Ep 454•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates J.R. Simplot: A billion the hard way by Louie Attebery Simplot company website “During World War II, Jack Simplot’s plants produced thirty-three million pounds of dehydrated potatoes and five million pounds of dehydrated onion to fuel America’s fighting men and women. In the 1960s, he helped McDonald’s chief Ray Kroc turn the french fry into a national staple. In the 1980s, th...
Feb 13, 2025•33 min•Ep 453•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Ocean Mist Farms: https://www.oceanmist.com/ Today’s episode features Mark Munger of Ocean Mist Farms in Castroville, California in the Salinas Valley. Mark shares a story that I think is very relevant to a lot of agriculture production today, all over the world. Although they’ve grown a great business to produce consistent, high quality, affordable, safe, nutritious commoditi...
Feb 06, 2025•39 min•Ep 452•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Hello fellow ag nerds. Today’s special episode is what I like to call a spotlight. Instead of our normal format of a 40 minute long form interview, it’s just a short peak into something interesting. The topics for these spotlights are determined in collaboration with our quarterly presenting sponsor, which this quarter is Case IH. Dan Klein is the Customer Insights Lead ...
Feb 03, 2025•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Agricultural Economic Insights: https://aei.ag/ Today's episode features David Widmar of Agricultural Economic Insights. David first appeared on the show a year ago on episode 399, which ended up being one of my most listened-to episodes of the year. Today, we discuss the current state of the ag economy, the margin squeeze that farmers are facing and where that places us on th...
Jan 29, 2025•42 min•Ep 451•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Mach: https://www.mach.io/ Today’s episode features Colin Hurd who is the CEO of Mach. Colin first appeared on this show back on episode 180 in November of 2019. At that time he had just sold his previous company, Smart Ag, to Raven Industries. Colin continued working for Raven Industries until 2022, when he left and eventually helped to bring together a partnership merger to ...
Jan 22, 2025•41 min•Ep 450•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates Janette Barnard's Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/ Future of Agriculture YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FutureOfAg Dr. G. Kee Jim is the founding partner of Feedlot Health Management Services Ltd. (FHMS). Dr. Jim’s cattle feeding companies (G.K. Jim Farms, Cattlinc Inc, Silverado Cattle Inc, Taweel Cattle Company Ltd, Korova Feeders Ltd, Di...
Jan 15, 2025•56 min•Ep 449•Transcript available on Metacast This quarter of the Future of Agriculture podcast is made possible by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/en-us/unitedstates So much of what we talk about on this show comes together in the cab of a tractor to leverage technology and make the best possible decisions for the farm. And I really haven’t spent enough time exploring the innovations surrounding the tractor itself. We take it for granted a little bit, but it really is the hub of a modern farming operation. The Magnum Tractor has been a fla...
Jan 08, 2025•33 min•Ep 448•Transcript available on Metacast Sponsored by Case IH: https://www.caseih.com/ The VINE: https://thevine.io/ Farmhand Ventures: https://www.farmhandventures.com/ The Reservoir: https://www.reservoir.co/ F3 Innovate: https://www.f3innovate.org/ Today you’ll hear from three people: Hannah Johnson, Connie Bowen, and Danny Bernstein. Hannah is the Industry Lead for The VINE at UC Ag and Natural Resources. Connie is the founding general partner at Farmhand Ventures who works with The VINE. Danny is CEO and managing partner at ...
Jan 02, 2025•46 min•Ep 447•Transcript available on Metacast Featured Podcast Episodes: David Friedberg on Joining Ohalo Genetics as CEO, Gene Editing Technology, and AgTech Trends by The Modern Acre How Syngenta is Thinking About AI with Feroz Sheikh by Agtech - So What? The Agriculture Economy: How Bad Is It and Where Is It Going? by The Business of Agriculture Coaching Farmers for Profit: Athletes Have Coaches Why Shouldn't You? by Farm4Profit Navigating the De-Commoditization of Ag with Daniel Oh of AgCertain by The Pacesetter Pod A New Direction in F...
Dec 26, 2024•45 min•Ep 446•Transcript available on Metacast Conservation Technology Information Center: https://www.ctic.org/ Regrow Ag: https://www.regrow.ag/ The Nature Conservancy: https://www.nature.org/en-us/ FoA 248: Regrow Merges Agronomic Insights with Sustainability Metrics Today’s episode is made possible thanks to the support of the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC). Formed in 1982 to support the widespread use of economically and environmentally beneficial agricultural systems, CTIC’s mission is to champion, promote and provid...
Dec 18, 2024•50 min•Ep 445•Transcript available on Metacast Bloomfield Robotics: https://bloomfield.ai/ Kubota North America Corporation Acquires US-based AgTech Startup FOA 228: Solving the Rural Connectivity Problem with Dr. Sara Spangelo of Swarm Quick note: I am still looking for a couple of brands to partner with in 2025. If your company might be interested in positioning yourself as an innovator in the ag industry, I would love to talk with you about my quarterly presenting sponsorship package. This is an exclusive, I only work with a maximum of fo...
Dec 11, 2024•37 min•Ep 444•Transcript available on Metacast Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley Prime Future Newsletter by Janette Barnard The Great Beef Bonanza and the Fall of the Cattle Kingdom "Our ancestors learned to control fire before modern humans even evolved. But our ability to command cold at will dates back a little more than 150 years. Mechanical cooling refrigeration produced by human artifice as opposed to the natural chill offered by weather dependent snow and ice wasn't achieved unt...
Dec 04, 2024•50 min•Ep 443•Transcript available on Metacast Tenacious Ventures: https://tenacious.ventures/ Farmhand Ventures: https://www.farmhandventures.com/ “Navigating a future of cross sectional forces” (AgriFutures Australia Report): https://agrifutures.com.au/product/navigating-a-future-of-cross-sectoral-forces/ Ag’s Scifi (and Non-Fiction) Future: Horizon Scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas: https://tenacious.ventures/insights/ags-scifi-and-non-fiction-future-horizon-scanning-so-what-with-shane-thomas Citrus Moves North with Farmer and Orangepr...
Nov 27, 2024•37 min•Ep 442•Transcript available on Metacast Niqo Robotics: https://niqorobotics.com/ Five Questions About The Ag Robotics Revolution (FIRA USA Takeaways) Today’s episode was recorded live at FIRA USA in Woodland, California. If you’re not familiar with FIRA it is the premier event for agricultural robotics and autonomous solutions in action. If you’d like more of my reflections and takeaways from the event go back and listen to episode 439. But I wanted to feature this interview with Jaisimha Rao as a standalone episode for a few reasons:...
Nov 20, 2024•28 min•Ep 441•Transcript available on Metacast Geco Strategic Weed Management: https://geco-ag.com/ Today’s episode features a new tool in the toolbox for farmers fighting weed pressure. As I’ve had conversations with farmers throughout the country, there is no doubt that the costs of weed control is a major pain point. This takes a lot of different forms, from the hand labor crews in California’s vegetable crops, to herbicide-resistant kochia in the middle of US and Canada to just the sheer cost of chemistry that’s impacting the bottom line...
Nov 13, 2024•37 min•Ep 440•Transcript available on Metacast FIRA USA: https://fira-usa.com/ SwarmFarm Robotics: https://www.swarmfarm.com/ Robotics Plus: https://www.roboticsplus.co.nz/ Bluewhite: https://www.bluewhite.ai/ Agtonomy: https://www.agtonomy.com/ Western Growers' Financial Case Studies: https://www.wga.com/innovation/case-studies/ A couple weeks ago I had the chance to attend FIRA USA, which is the gathering for ag robotics and autonomous equipment in agriculture. And autonomy has been on my mind a lot lately. You’ve seen an uptick in autonom...
Nov 07, 2024•49 min•Ep 439•Transcript available on Metacast NuCicer: https://www.nucicer.com/ Growing Pulse Crops Podcast: https://growingpulsecrops.com/ If we were to re-think the food system and start with human nutrition as the goal, we would likely want food ingredients that are affordable, delicious, high in protein and high in fiber. Chickpeas fit the bill. Kathryn Cook and the team at NuCicer are developing genetics for chickpeas with more protein to make them more functional and appealing to food companies. But can they pass enough of that ...
Oct 31, 2024•45 min•Ep 438•Transcript available on Metacast ChrysaLabs: https://www.chrysalabs.com/ Today’s episode features Sam Fournier, CEO and co-founder of ChyrsaLabs. I had the chance to briefly meet Sam at World AgriTech. Thank you to Sachi Desai and the Bayer team for the intro. And when I heard what they were doing, I immediately asked if he’d ever be willing to come on the podcast. This idea of providing real time soil information on nutrients has been tried before and as far as I know the tech just hasn’t worked. But ChrysaLabs has been at thi...
Oct 23, 2024•38 min•Ep 437•Transcript available on Metacast I’ve never been to space, but it has been said that from outer space there are three man-made technologies visible: the Great Wall of China and electric illumination of the world’s largest cities are the first two. The third are the green crop circles created by center pivot irrigation. It has been said that the center pivot irrigation system is “perhaps the most significant mechanical innovation in agriculture since the replacement of draft animals by the tractor”. Today, over 50% of the ...
Oct 17, 2024•33 min•Ep 436•Transcript available on Metacast Voyage Foods: https://voyagefoods.com/ Jennifer Barney's Business of Food Newsletter: https://jenniferbarney.substack.com/ I continue to be interested in pursuing episodes that are more on the food side of the industry. I think at first glance some of these stories might make you question whether it really belongs on an agricultural podcast. But I really believe consumer interest and food trends will drive the future of agriculture just as much if not more than any ag technology will. So it’s re...
Oct 03, 2024•34 min•Ep 435•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Trey Malone Profile: https://ag.purdue.edu/directory/tjmalone#:~:text=Trey%20Malone%20is%20an%20agri,on%20agri%2Dfood%20supply%20chains. Trey's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/treymalone MS-MBA Joint Degree: https://agribusiness.purdue.edu/degrees/ms-mba/ Dr. Trey Malone is an agri-food economist and the Boehlje Chair in Managerial Economics for Agribusiness in the department of agricultural economics at Purdue University. His work focuses generally on strategic marketing and strategic...
Sep 25, 2024•43 min•Ep 434•Transcript available on Metacast Farmland LP: Back on the show today is Craig Wichner of Farmland LP. I had been reading in the news some of the big moves Craig and his team were making to acquire and add value to more farmland. And I thought, wow, this must be a tough environment just based on the prices of some of these specialty crops and the jump in interest rates. But what Craig shared surprised me, and I’m excited to share it with you today. If you need a little refresher from Craig’s first appearance on episode 298...
Sep 18, 2024•37 min•Ep 433•Transcript available on Metacast Gallagher: https://am.gallagher.com/en-US I’m pleased to welcome Gallagher Animal Management Chief Executive Lisbeth Jacobs onto the show today. There is nothing like the battle-tested point of view from a company that has been an innovator and market leader for a long time. In Gallagher’s case, it’s in technology for animal management. A quick description from their website: Founded in 1938, Gallagher is now known and respected in over 100 countries as a family-owned business built on customer-...
Sep 11, 2024•38 min•Ep 432•Transcript available on Metacast Full Harvest: https://www.fullharvest.com/ Software is Feeding The World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw Metal Dog Labs: https://www.metaldoglabs.ai/ I’m really excited to share today’s episode with Christine Moseley. This problem of food waste is one I’ve been interested in since starting this podcast. The first episode I dedicated to the issue was episode 040 clear back in early 2017 with Jonathan Bloom of Wasted Food. Then we’ve had other episodes with people like Olympia Yarger ...
Sep 05, 2024•40 min•Ep 431•Transcript available on Metacast Ag Done Different Newsletter: https://agtechmarketinginsights.substack.com/ "Reclaim Your Market Power: The Agribusiness Blueprint for Strategic Influence" : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aO__6x2ze9QSe_e7jyWvCKJzh-4-I7yW/view?usp=drivesdk Schultz Collaborative: https://www.schultzcollaborative.com/ As lead category designer at Schultz Collaborative, Dan Schultz helps agtech companies around the world design their category and think differently about how they commercialize their products. Dan ...
Aug 29, 2024•47 min•Ep 430•Transcript available on Metacast Sabanto: https://sabantoag.com/ FoA 241: From Drives to Driverless with Craig Rupp of Sabanto I’m really glad to get Craig Rupp back on the show today. Some of you might remember his interview on episode 241, where Craig shared the incredible journey of building 640 Labs which he sold to the Climate Corp and became the FieldView Drive. At that time, we also talked about his newest venture, Sabanto, which is bringing autonomy to agriculture. Since that episode over three years ago, Craig an...
Aug 22, 2024•39 min•Ep 429•Transcript available on Metacast 
