Upstream Ag Professional

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Corteva completes spin-off of seed business Vylor Who Owns the Next Decision? Ag Software in the Agent Era FBN and Google AI Futures Fund Partner to Accelerate AI for Agriculture + Influence Erosion: The Risk JD Brings to Ag Retail

Corteva and Vylor Investor Day Highlights and Analysis

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Beyond the “Average Farmer”: Why technology adoption in agriculture requires tailored strategies Considerations for the Advisor's Role After GenAI Corteva, Globachem Agreement + Other Corteva News Agriculture is Suffering From a Crisis… A Crisis of Curiosity

This week’s audio edition can be found here and covers the following: Who Get's What in the Vylor and Corteva Split John Deere Precision Update Ag Retailers Identify Obstacles to Further Tech Adoption

This week's audio edition dives into highlights from the Q2 2026 Agribusiness Results, including a look at Nutrien and Proprietary products, Crop protection pricing, executive changes, Phosphate pricing and more!

The ag market is genuinely tough right now: compressed commodity prices, higher input and equipment costs, and growers scrutinizing every dollar. Yet some founders and agribusinesses are still growing and hitting their numbers. The difference often comes down to mindset. The ones winning ask "what can I do to influence the market?" instead of "what is the market giving me?" This episode makes the...

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Tracking Retail Biostimulant Engagement: Highlights and Analysis of Stratus Ag Research Survey Data Hybrid Wheat and Initiatives from Corteva, Bayer, Syngenta and BASF Syngenta and Groundwork BioAg enter partnership to bring innovation in biologicals and soil carbon solutions to farmers Sabanto and Leaps by Bayer Announce Oversubscribed Series B Fina...

This week’s audio edition covers the following: 2026 Tracking Biostimulants and Getting Growers Onside Data from Stratus Ag Research: Highlights and Analysis PitchBook Q2 2026 AgTech Investing Data

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Why Farmers Really Resist Regenerative Ag Bayer Group to Consolidate U.S. Glyphosate Business Into Distinct Entity Operating as Ruveon Quick Hits from this Week’s Editiona. Syngenta Group Appoints Hengde Qin as Chief Executive Officerb. Corteva announced it’s Board of Directors for the Crop Protection Company and the new Seed company, Vylorc. Yara ac...

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Beyond the Spray Tech Stack: The Case for Native, Plant-Level Systems Founder Risk, Technical Risk and Market Risk in Agriculture in AgTech Biostimulants Need to Earn Their Place Supreme Court limits Roundup cancer suits against Bayer’s Monsanto

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Do killer acquisitions by large pesticide producers hold back innovative pest control technologies? AI Adoption Blueprint for Ag Retail

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Ag Equipment Market Insight Highlights and Analysis from the 2026 AgbioInvestor Agrochemical Product Discovery, Development and Registration Report Anti-Competitive Agribusiness Discussion

This week’s audio edition covers the following: How else will Vylor monetize the Pioneer Dealer Network? The Seductiveness of Silver Bullets in Weed Management

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional includes: Kubota Tests UV-C Machines as an Alternative to Crop Protection Products FMC Corporation to Divest India Commercial Business to Crystal Crop Protection for $252 Million SKK Holdings to Acquire Rantizo Drone Assets in $258.8 Million Deal Introducing Vylor: Corteva Spinoff to Propel Agriculture Further Suterra Acquires Vestaron's Product Line...

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional Audio edition covers: Q1 2026 Agribusiness Results Alternative Weed Management, Resistance and Integrative Thinking

A detailed deep dive into Clockspeed, Capital, and Conviction: Considerations for R&D and M&A in Agribusiness

Introduction 1. The Framing Effect 2. The Narrative Fallacy 3. Salience Bias 4. Authority Bias 5. Survivorship Bias 6. The Peak-End Rule

Shane Thomas breaks down the global biostimulant market using data and insights from the DunhamTrimmer 2025 Global Biostimulant Report, covering market size, growth trajectories, regional dynamics, product trends, and the competitive forces reshaping the industry. What's covered: The Biostimulant Opportunity — Why the sector has moved from niche to mainstream, including growing recognition of abio...

The April 5th Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated? John Deere’s archives are powering its modern-day marketing

The March 29th Edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: AgList Biological Report Takeaways + Should We Sell the Modern Acre Peter Thiel and Companies Over Technologies (17:00 min mark) We Have Learned Nothing (24:55 min mark)

The March 22nd Edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: Sentiment and Takeaways from The World AgriTech Innovation Summit AgVend Product Launches and The Future of the Ag Value Chain AgFunder 2026 AgriFoodTech Funding Report Highlights

The March 8th 2026 audio edition covers the following: With crop protection at a crossroads, it’s time for big ag to embrace its big pharma moment The Middle East and Agribusiness Implications

The March 1st 2026 Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers the following: Agribusiness Highlights from Nutrien, Corteva, FMC, Mosaic and BASF

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Agribusiness Results: Nutrien, Deere, and CNH Bayer Launches newgold® — A New Multi-Crop Seed Brand Designed to Connect Agriculture to the Low-Carbon Fuel Economy

This week’s audio edition and covers the following: The Hidden Economics of Hardware-first Agtech CropX and the case for consolidation in agtech: ‘We are an M&A machine’