Agtech - So What?
By Sarah Nolet
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We tell the stories of innovators at the intersection of agriculture and technology to answer the question: what really is agtech and why should you care?
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Can you build a farm for an uncertain future? With Simon Wallwork
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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Business model breakdowns: ag equipment dealer Titan Machinery, with Shane Thomas
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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Are we thinking about trees on farms all wrong? with Michael Taylor
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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What if every plant was a sensor? with Gary Schaefer
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Can tech make agriculture brands more authentic? with Jim Gall, RB Sellars
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Why good agtech doesn't always get adopted, with Chad Godsey
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Why taste beats sustainability at the checkout, with food futurist Mike Lee
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Why soil health and profitability are deeply connected, with Nic Kentish
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Can dairy’s waste stream power beef’s future? with Daniel Carson
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Business model breakdowns: the Monsanto playbook, with Shane Thomas
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May 27, 2026 |
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Can biomaterials compete on price, not just purpose? with Tina Funder
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May 13, 2026 |
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Better outcomes, not lower costs: rethinking agtech in horticulture, with Mark Trzaskoma
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Business model breakdowns: co-ops and their future in ag, with Shane Thomas
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Halter’s $2 billion question, with founder Craig Piggott
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Australian agtech: what we got wrong and right, with Sam Duncan and Natalie Engel
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Aligning corporates, startups and investors in agrifood, with Brad Fruth and Frank Wooten
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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AI as a competitive farming advantage, with Paul Windemuller
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Native grains and Indigenous-led food systems, with Jacob Birch
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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The future of farming is autonomous, with Brett McMickell, Kubota
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Making underwater forestry scalable and sustainable, with Andrew Morgan
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Have we hit the tipping point for autonomy in ag? with Shane Thomas and Matthew Pryor
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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The business case for electrifying agriculture, with Mike Casey
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The realities of winding up an agtech app, with Nikki Davey
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Agtech trends: bundling, unbundling, LLMs and more with Shane Thomas and Matthew Pryor
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Putting cotton farmers at the forefront of the industry, with Marzia Lanfranchi
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Will China’s cheaper tractors disrupt ag equipment? with Lachlan Monsbourgh
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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From adoption problems to high-performance farm teams, with Kevin Boyle
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Can robotics solve farm labor challenges? with Sophie Thorel and Connie Bowen
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Are agtech startups just digital agribusinesses? with Mark Kahn, Omnivore
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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How 'food is medicine' could change farm economics, with Brad McNamara
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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How policy hamstrings agtech in California, with Walt Duflock
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Is AI the secret to next gen soil sampling? with Jack Oslan and Nate Storey
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Disrupting the agtech ecosystem: the strategies that shape markets, with Ron Adner
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Making sense of recent agtech acquisitions, with Shane Thomas
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May 28, 2025 |
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How GLP-1 drugs are reshaping food and ag, with Mary Shelman
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May 14, 2025 |
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Beyond VC: redeemable equity in agtech, with Connie Bowen
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Merging agtech startups to multiply value, with Rob Hannam
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Paying for ag R&D when consumers won't, with Brooke Sauer
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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A business model for novel ingredients, with Jake Berber
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Solving for adoption and channel in agtech… so what? with Shane Thomas
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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From demo farms to adoption, with Wine Australia's Paul Smith and Dave Gerner
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Killing weeds without poison, with Liam Hescock
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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2025 in agtech... so what? with Shane Thomas
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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How business model innovation changed agtech in 2024
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Shortening the long game in livestock breeding, with Gerard Davis
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Rethinking who pays in irrigation agtech, with Jairo Trad
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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The two faces of global ESG in ag, with Catherine Marriott
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Pitch breakdown: Fractal Ag, with Ben Gordon and Shane Thomas
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Investing in regenerative agriculture supply chains, with Calla Rose Ostrander
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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When Kansas dries up… in 2050, with Dan Northrup
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Unconventional farmer-led finance strategies, with Quint Pottinger
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Ag's sci-fi (and non-fiction) future: horizon scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Citrus moves north: climate change is already reshaping farms, with Lindy Savelle
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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How Syngenta is thinking about AI, with Feroz Sheikh
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Agtech news... so what? July 2024 with Shane Thomas
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Evaluating biologicals businesses: hype vs substance, with Joel Lipsitch
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Rebooting agtech software with AI, with Rhishi Pethe
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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How green is sustainable aviation fuel? with Cris Handel
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May 29, 2024 |
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Agtech news... so what? May 2024 with Shane Thomas
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May 15, 2024 |
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The many faces of farm security, with John Hill
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May 01, 2024 |
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Landfill to farm-fill: cotton waste as a soil solution, with Sam Coulton
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Biosecurity meets agtech: preparing for a hotter sicker world, with Sarah Britton
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Agtech news… so what? March 2024 with Shane Thomas
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Generics, biologicals and the volatile farm inputs market, with Sam Taylor, Rabobank
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Getting into the weeds: AI and non-chemical weeding, with Liam Hescock and Guy Coleman
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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How small growers think about agtech, with Sam Godwin
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Agtech news... so what? January 2024 with Shane Thomas
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Agtech 2023… so what? A year in review
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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What a portfolio wind-down teaches you, with Nowadays founder Max Elder
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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How startups and corporates can do more together, with Kevin McDonald
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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What do LPs look for in agtech funds? with Eliza Jackson and Sara Balawajder
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How outside forces are shaping the food system, with Ian Proudfoot
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Methane and the climate commitments that matter most, with Katie Anderson
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Bringing systems thinking to the global fertilizer industry, with Alzbeta Klein
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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How farmers are actually using ChatGPT, with Marc Arnusch
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Cultivating agility at a multi-generational food company, with Ashli Blumenfeld and Ben Rosenthal
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Who's investing in agribusiness? Live from evokeAG 2023
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Is vertical farming dead? with Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Electrifying the farm: is it finally viable? with David Meyers
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Transforming the future of Australian ag retail, with Rob Dawes
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The race to define the future of ag retail, with Shane Thomas
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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On-farm food loss: the waste we don't see, with Sarah Hulick and Olympia Yarger
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May 24, 2023 |
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How to create incentives for circularity in food system waste
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May 10, 2023 |
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Investing in food waste tech, with Closed Loop Partners and Olympia Yarger
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Why dairy and alt-dairy are collaborators, not competitors, with Michael Hampson
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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How to invest in deep tech in agrifood — tenaciously
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Unlocking phosphorus for the future of fertility, with Hunter Swisher
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Can molecular farming replace cows with crops? with Amos Palfreyman
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Turning animal waste into renewable fertilizer, with Jordan Phasey
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Future of fertilizer… so what? with Tim Hammerich
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Agtech headlines… so what? Mineral launch, Planet Labs insurance, Deere right-to-repair
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Building a food business ecosystem from the farm up, with Michael Bosworth
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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2022: The year of risk at Agtech… so what?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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From climate measurement to risk mitigation, with Cullen Gunn
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Why is autonomy in ag so hard? With Ray Russell and Connie Bowen
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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From buyer beware to seller beware in agtech
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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The future of nitrogen: new business models, with Jupiter Ionics and Kula Bio
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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The future of fertilizer: reimagining nitrogen, with Jupiter Ionics and Kula Bio
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Climate risk meets the farm balance sheet, with Clay Govier
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Legacy finance eyes agtech: what bankers think of startups, with Romie Basra
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Systems thinking and the legacy of Big Food, with Dr Nigel Hughes, Kellogg
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Parametric insurance from the farm: a farmer's view, with Tom Ferguson
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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What commodity agriculture can learn from organic farming, with Amy Bruch
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Defining the future of ag advocacy, with Emma Germano
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: Your responses to 'The three fears of farm data'
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Three categories of autonomy in agriculture, with Andrew Bate
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Who actually pays for carbon programs in agriculture? with Emma Fuller
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Ag insurance… so what? Our verdict on the risk frontier
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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The future of insurance in agriculture, with Damon Johnson
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: Ag Insurance 101, with Matt Coutts and Matthew Pryor
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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From the vault: carbon-neutral farming at Jigsaw Farms, with Mark Wootton
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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How a sixth-generation farmer makes decisions in uncertainty, with Hallie Shoffner
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May 18, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: The three fears of farm data
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May 11, 2022 |
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Services and software for on-farm autonomy, with Iftach Birger
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May 04, 2022 |
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Economic development and the social fabric of agriculture, with Elizabeth Brennan
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Unscrambling go-to-market (and brand) in alternative protein, with Tanja Bogumil
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: The state of fundraising in agtech
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Biologicals are exciting — but the real action is beyond the farmgate, with Ben Barlow
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Meeting in the middle on sustainable supply chains, with Jessie Deelo
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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The authenticity premium in agtech marketing, with Camille Grade and Travis Martin
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Win-win business models for farmers and startups, with Marissa Cuevas Flores
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Genetics, biosecurity and the cutest sheep in the world, with Dr Belinda Cardinal
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Soil tech is easy in the lab, hard as a business, with Adam Litle
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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From the vault: the tech-enabled future of sheep genetics, with Mark Ferguson
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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What's the role of government in agtech ecosystems? with Salvatore Lavallo
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Bonus: Later-stage agtech startup wrap, feat. Anastasia Volkova
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Later-stage lessons #3: building a $3.9B farmers' network, with Charles Baron
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Later-stage lessons #2: when you ask for their money, people tell the truth, with Paul Lightfoot
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Later-stage lessons #1: from idea to 100+ employees, with Michael Gilbert
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Bonus episode: Investing in tech to enable regen ag
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Why you should give a f*ck about farming, with Gabrielle Chan
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Farmers and startups: lessons and tips for collaborating across the divide
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Bonus episode: The economics of valuing natural capital, with Ken Henry
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Special episode: Our most popular guests on soil carbon, regen ag and the future
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Getting off the commodities treadmill, with Loran Steinlage
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Designing crops to change the plant-based food system, with Matt Crisp
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Bonus episode: Did Silicon Valley kill agtech?
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Red meat and climate: the case for nuance, with Jason Strong, MLA
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Is the future of farming hands-free? with Kit Franklin
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Commercialising biologicals: from research to startup, with Jacqueline Heard and Nancy Schellhorn
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Bonus episode: Capitalism for good, feat. David Lee from AppHarvest and Impossible Foods
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Biologicals: snake oil or science? with Jarrett Chambers and Shane Thomas
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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India's farmer protests: what they mean for innovation in agriculture
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: The five forces shaping the future of food and ag, with Sarah Nolet
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Sustainable supply chains: eliminating waste and unlocking business opportunities
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Toyota's lean system comes to the farm, with Jana Hocken
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May 19, 2021 |
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New Zealand's dairy pollution problem, and the innovation it's driving, with Mat Hocken and Bridgit Hawkins
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May 05, 2021 |
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Bringing the public along on plant genetics, with Vonnie Estes
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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What's the incentive? Turning soil carbon into a commodity
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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The agtech adoption dilemma: why irrigation tech doesn't sell itself
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Can livestock be sustainable? with Frank Mitloehner and Kerryann Kocher
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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A small non-profit farm near NYC wants to change the food system, with Stone Barns Center
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Busting food and farming myths with evidence, with Rob Paarlberg
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Can Coca-Cola make the food system more sustainable? with Ulrike Sapiro
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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What it's REALLY like to work in an agtech startup
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Breaking into agtech when you don't 'look the part', with four women leaders
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Scaling soil carbon markets: the race to make it pay, with Cargill, Nori and more
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Farming eggs the startup way, with Sarah Sivyer
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Bringing technology to a 200-year-old sheep station, with Matt Crozier
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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From defense to disruption: how big food approaches sustainability, with Mary Shelman
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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All farming is exploitative'? A journalist's tough questions on ag, with Sarah Mock
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Regenerative ag: our verdict, with Sarah Nolet and Matthew Pryor
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Greenwashing or good business? The regenerative ag debate, live
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Can McDonald's scale for good? with Nicole Johnson-Hoffman
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Why General Mills is betting a million acres on regenerative ag, with Jay Watson
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Wagyu without owning a cow: startup logic meets regen farming, with Sam Trethewey
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Carbon-neutral since 2011: the Jigsaw Farms story, with Mark Wootton
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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From 160 acres and 40 cows to 20 families: growing with tech, with Karmen Mehmen
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Social license, science comms and the cotton farmer's story, with Renée Anderson
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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The world's only carbon-neutral fishing company, with David Carter
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Three leading farmers on the tech they use every day: live from evokeAG
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May 20, 2020 |
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How Bayer and Trimble buy and build agtech, with Jim Chambers and Derek Norman
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May 06, 2020 |
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The alternative protein debate: disruption or opportunity for ag? live panel
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Building agtech with growers, not for them, with Pete Nelson
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Three barriers to agtech adoption (and COVID's impact on food), with Evan Fraser
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Rebroadcast: how indoor farming makes money, with Allison Kopf
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Bonus episode: live panel from evokeAG 2020 featuring global agrifood tech experts
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Can a family vineyard go carbon neutral and make money? with Alisdair Tulloch
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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The tech-enabled future of sheep genetics, with Mark Ferguson
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Where the real money is in agtech, with farmer-builder Mic Fels
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Drought, dust storms and value-adding a family farm, with Fiona Aveyard
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Farmers who became founders: two startup journeys, with Fee Turner and Lee Coleman
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Making six-figure decisions on a regenerative cattle farm, with Stuart Austin
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Farmer-led startups: building while farming, with Ashlea Miles and David Ricardo
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Facial recognition for cows, with Aidan Connolly
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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What it takes for researchers and startups to collaborate in agtech: live panel
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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A farmer's view on the GMO and sheep controversies, with Murray Scholz
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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From commodity to identity: systems investing in food and ag, with Victor Friedberg, S2G Ventures
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Getting a job in agtech: what companies are really looking for, with Tim Hammerich
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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The overlooked role of women in agtech adoption, with Dr Rachel Hay
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Farming regeneratively before the word existed, with Peter Thompson
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Inside Indigo Ag: $650M raised, and what it learned visiting Australia, with Dan Harburg
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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From extraction to regeneration: investing for returns and impact, with Ben Krasnostein
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Why bigger isn't always better in agtech, with Andrew Whitlock
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Two cotton farmers built Australia's biggest solar-diesel pump, with Karin Stark and Jon Elder
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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From corporate careers to tropical fruit: being agtech ready, with Jess and Matt Fealy
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Farming with climate change, not against it, with Anika Molesworth
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May 30, 2019 |
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Agtech at scale: running a 2,000-hectare corporate farm, with Lachlan Sutton
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May 14, 2019 |
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Getting agtech ready: what a three-generation cropping family does right, with Tim Rethus
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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An update from Agtech… so what?
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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How an online livestock market became a rural Australia top-10 site, with Angus Street, AuctionsPlus
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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John Deere's first integrated-solutions hire on automation and adoption, with Anthony Rudd
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Farmers taking control of their own data, with the Digital Ag Collective
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Live from evokeAG: what makes a farm faster and smarter
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Live from evokeAG: can alternative farming feed a city of 10 billion?
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Mar 03, 2019 |
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A century of building farm machinery, with Matt Roesner
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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A fifth-generation farmer who works inside the agtech system, with Jennifer Medway
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Doing precision ag before the internet existed, with Viv McCollum and Margaret Ayre
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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The Shark Farmer on humour, podcasts and questioning agriculture, with Rob Sharkey
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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Measuring every sheep's feed conversion, one animal at a time, with Will MacSmith
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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How computers changed a family sheep stud, with Mark Mortimer
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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The dairy farmer who codes: building a feed app from the farm, with Carl Lippert
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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The mushroom farmer growing a new generation of agriculture, with Chris McLoughlin
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Season Two Teaser
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Quick check-in: more episodes coming soon
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Why agtech startups need weather scientists on their side, with Dr Jaci Brown, CSIRO
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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Why the biggest gap in agtech isn't technology, with Brooke Sauer
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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What if the future of farming doesn't look like a farm? with Allison Kopf
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May 30, 2018 |
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Twenty years and four startups: hard-won lessons from agtech, with Kevin Heikes
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May 23, 2018 |
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Tracking 1,500 agtech companies to find what's next, with Seana Day, Better Food Ventures
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May 16, 2018 |