Future of Agriculture

Elo Life Systems: https://elolife.com/ Super excited to bring on Matt DiLeo of ELO Life Systems on today’s episode. Some of you may remember that ELO Life CEO Todd Rands was a part of 412 of this podcast two years ago. I’ve been fascinated by their work ever since to bring to the market what they call molecular farming. Matt does a great job of explaining the concept and how this shifts the value...

Oxrow.ai Loftus Ranches: https://www.loftusranches.com/ Patrick Smith is a fourth-generation farmer and the CEO of Loftus Ranches, a Yakima Valley-based agricultural business producing hops alongside apples, pears, peppers, and other crops. He focuses on long-term strategy, capital allocation, and stakeholder relationships, balancing operational discipline with financial rigor. He founded Oxrow.ai...

LandTrust: https://landtrust.com/ LandTrust is an online platform that connects landowners to people looking for outdoor recreation like hunting, fishing or camping. Think AirBNB for hunters. For most of you, that is probably not a novel concept in 2026, but the concept isn’t the story here - at least not to me. The story is how Nic and his team are pulling it off. How they are building trust with...

Ag View Solutions: https://www.agviewsolutions.com/ Farm Profit Manager: https://www.farmprofitmanager.com/ Today’s guest is Shay Foulk of Ag View Solutions and the Farm Profit Manager app. I’ve known of Shay for years as a podcaster and farm management consultant, and his presence on social media. Shay and I both have been a part of webinars for Fractal Ag in the past, and shout out to Ben at Fra...

CattleMax: https://www.cattlemax.com/ CattleTags.com CattleScales.com CattleDNA.com Ranching.com Terrell Miller is the Founder and CEO of CattleMax, the most widely used cow-calf management software in North America, trusted by producers in more than 70 countries. A cattle rancher himself, Terrell has spent over 25 years focused on practical, producer-first record keeping that supports better deci...

Rancho Gordo: https://www.ranchogordo.com/ Today’s episode is a real treat for me. Some of you know that I grew up on a small farm in Northern California that sold livestock, poultry and pumpkins directly to consumers. Then most of my career has been spent in large scale commodity agriculture. Which is why I’ve always been interested in how e-commerce can be used to scale direct to consumer busine...

Subscribe to Upstream Ag Insights: https://upstream.ag/ "33 Mental Models For The Modern Agribusiness Leader" Upstream Ag Insights YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@upstreamaginsights2821 This is probably long overdue to host Shane Thomas on the show. Shane, as many of you already know, writes the very popular newsletter Upstream Ag Insights. He has been providing extremely detailed analysis to su...

Follow Josh on X: https://x.com/JLinvilleFert StoneX website: https://www.stonex.com YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLseYUvaoguNifbmL84zX3plTPt4HGt-MF Josh Linville is the vice president of fertilizer at StoneX Group Inc. Growing up in northwestern Missouri on a family farm growing tobacco crops and cattle, Josh brings a unique perspective to the fertilizer markets. With ove...

Stock Cropper website: https://thestockcropper.com/ The StockCropper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheStockCropper Follow Zack on X: https://x.com/zebulousprime Connect with Zack on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zack-smith-5681911b7 Today’s episode features a repeat guest: Zack Smith of Stock Cropper. Zack is an ideal guest because he’s both an independent thinker and a doer. S...

Follow Quentin Connealy on X Connect with Q on LinkedIn "Between 2 Farms" Podcast I’ve known Quentin Connealy just from following him online for several years now. Not only is he an entrepreneurial, forward-thinking farmer, but he’s also one of the nicest people in ag that you’ll find online. I’ve been meaning to get him on the podcast for a while, and I’m making more of an effort this year to tal...

Jonathan Coppess Research Page: https://ace.illinois.edu/directory/jwcoppes "The Fault Lines of Farm Policy" book "Between Soil and Society" book Today’s episode explores an important area of agriculture that I probably don’t talk enough about on this show: ag policy. I wanted to bring Dr. Jonathan Coppess on the program to ask fundamental questions like: Is ag policy working? Is the Farm Bill sti...

Pairwise: https://www.pairwise.com/ FoA 412: 'Biological' Is Not A Category (it's the future of agriculture) I’m excited to share today’s episode with you. I’ve wanted to get Tom Adams back on the show ever since I had the chance to interview him at World Agritech a couple of years ago. That interview was included on episode 412 of this podcast titled “Biological is not a Category”. The work Pairw...

Rodale Institute: https://rodaleinstitute.org/ "History of the Rodale Institute" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nxSYYUMJ6F8 Today we’re talking to Dr. Andrew Smith of the Rodale Institute. I originally wanted to bring Andrew onto the show to talk about the history of the Rodale Institute and it’s contribution to agricultural research. Rodale Institute is a nonprofit growing the organic movement thro...

Wootzano: https://www.wootzano.com/ Atif Syed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/syedatif/ Via Atif's LinkedIn post "I never thought I’d have to write this. Wootzano, the British robotics company I built from nothing, is at risk of being shut down not because of commercial failure, but because of a procedural trap. Yesterday, after a petition by Innovate UK Loans Limited (UKRI), the Court is...

AquaSpy: https://aquaspy.com/ On the show today is Bruce Moeller, before buying AquaSpy in 2009 Bruce was already a serial entrepreneur, a former president of a publicly traded company, and an author of two books. He successfully grew and exited Culture Works and Drive Cam, which was an early dash cam company. He decided to apply the idea they used at Drive Cam to use technology to capture what ha...

Five Questions About The Ag Robotics Revolution (FIRA 2024 Reflections) The Next Great Ag Equipment Brand will be Autonomy-First with Charlie Andersen of Burro Autonomous Sprayers with Gary Thompson of GUSS Making Spot Spray Technology Accessible With Jaisimha Rao of Niqo Robotics The Path To Superhuman Farming with Curtis Garner and Brent Shedd of Verdant Robotics Category Design with Dan Schultz...

Podcast episodes featured: Where Will Demand Come From? | Damian Mason Podcast Will China’s cheaper tractors disrupt ag equipment? With Lachlan Monsbourgh | Agtech - So What? Reducing Weeds and Pests with Regenerative Mulching Systems with Erwin Westers | The Regenerative Agriculture Podcast Field Intelligence: Elliott Grant on AI in Agriculture | Fresh Takes on Tech Ag's Efficiency Preoccupation...

FieldLark AI: https://fieldlark.ai/ Advancing Eco Agriculture: https://advancingecoag.com/ Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: https://advancingecoag.com/podcasts/ FoA 386: Challenging Assumptions About Regenerative Agriculture With John Kempf Today we’re joined by John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture. John first joined me on the podcast two years ago for episode 386 titled “Challenging...

Burro website: https://burro.ai/ FoA 271: Ag Robotics Roundtable: https://futureofagriculture.com/episode/foa-271-ag-robotics-roundtable I’m really excited to share today’s episode with you. Charlie Andersen is one of the most impressive and intelligent founders that I’ve had the chance to speak with. I can remember being blown away with him when he was a part of our Ag Robotics Roundtable which b...

Today’s episode is another installment in our Tech-Enabled Advisor series. The idea here is to better understand agtech through the lens of the BUYER and USER of that technology rather than just the entrepreneurs or investors behind it. I’ve received some super positive feedback about the return of this series. By talking to the buyers rather than the sellers of the tech, we got an unfiltered intr...

"The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann Rhishi Pethe's "Software is Feeding the World" Newsletter  "In 1968, the year a USAID official coined the term 'Green Revolution', Norman Borlaug gave a victory lap speech at a wheat meeting in Australia. Twenty years before, he said, Mexican farmers had reaped about 760 pounds of wheat from every acre planted. Now that figure had risen to almost 2,5...

Erin Silva, Ph. D. https://cias.wisc.edu/directory/17158/ FoA 280: Organic Farming Myths and Realities With Erin Silva I wanted to invite Erin Silva back on the show to hear about her continued work with farmers that are going down the path of organic AND regenerative. On the surface, those two farming approaches are easy to get behind: let’s try to reduce our dependence on synthetic chemistry and...

Todd's Profile on Farm Progress: https://www.farmprogress.com/author/todd-fitchette Todd's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddfitchette/ Todd Fitchette is the editor of Western Farm Press which is part of the Farm Progress Group. Todd has been there covering relevant agricultural issues for farmers in the West since 2013. His journalism career began in 1990 with community newspapers in Cali...

I’m really fascinated by today’s topic of looking into pest and disease outbreaks in animal agriculture from an economist's point of view. Our guest, Jada Thompson, is going to discuss the economics behind prevention of these biosecurity issues,the economic impact when outbreaks do occur,  some of the tradeoffs in the difficult decisions that need to be made, what that means for producers and...

Lumo: https://lumo.ag/ Great episode for you today with Devon Wright of Lumo. The Lumo story is really interesting for a number of reasons. One of which is that they have managed to take on venture capital, but still remain very focused on serving a very specific market within agriculture. As you’ll hear they have resisted the temptation that has led to the demise of so many agtech companies to tr...