Future of Agriculture

Try Acres for Free: https://www.acres.co/ FoA 334: Cybersecurity in Agribusiness with Mike Moore of Ever. Ag FoA 310: Investment Models with Hannah Senior of Innovating Agtech FoA 351: Agritourism and Adding Value on the Farm with Allan Robinette FoA 355: Tule Technologies Acquired by CropX with Tom Shapland and John Gates FoA 301: Funding Innovation for Agriculture, People, and Planet with Suma R...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ Tule Technologies: https://tule.ag/ CropX: Today’s episode features Tom Shapland of Tule Technologies and John Gates of CropX. We have a great episode for you talking about Tule’s technology, Tom’s entrepreneurial journey, The decision on both sides for Cropx to acquire Tule, M&A in agtech and integration lesson, and the future of artificial intelligen...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ AGvisorPRO: https://getagvisorpro.com/ Today’s episode features AGvisorPRO CEO Robert Saik. Rob is a well-known outspoken champion of agriculture, a Distinguished Agrologist, Professional Agriculture Consultant, and a veteran entrepreneur who has been on this show twice before in episodes 095 and 166.  He has leveraged these strengths to found over 15...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ IFPA's Fresh Field Catalyst Accelerator: https://www.freshproduce.com/resources/technology/fresh-field-catalyst/ "Taste is King" on the Fresh Takes on Tech podcast: https://www.freshproduce.com/resources/technology/takes-on-tech-podcast/episode-56-taste-is-king/ "Locally Grown Through Vertical Farming on the Fresh Takes on Tech podcast: https://www.freshpr...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ PYKA: https://www.flypyka.com/ Michael Norcia is CEO of Pyka, which as I mentioned earlier is an autonomous electric aircraft company. Michael has a deep technical background in autonomous flight, having contributed to a wide variety of manned/unmanned electric aviation projects at Joby, Cora, and Kittyhawk. In 2017, Michael co-founded Pyka with the goal o...

Try Acres for FREE: https://www.acres.co/ Robinette's Apple Haus & Winery: https://robinettes.com/ The Land Podcast - The Pursuit of Land Ownership and Investing https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-land-podcast-the-pursuit-of/id1572511098 Exodus Outdoor Gear: https://exodusoutdoorgear.com/ Hello fellow ag nerds! Thanks for joining me for another episode of the Future of Agriculture podca...

Try Acres for FREE: https://www.acres.co/ Magnetic Ag Newsletter: https://magnetic-ag.com/ "Farm and Other F Words" https://bookshop.org/p/books/farm-and-other-f-words-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-small-family-farm-sarah-k-mock/16922376 Imagine Content and Consulting: https://newsletter.imagine-content.com/ "AEI.Ag Presents" podcast: https://aei.ag/podcast/ "Agtech - So What?" podcast: https://www.agt...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ advance.farm website: https://advanced.farm/ Today’s episode features Kyle Cobb, president and co-founder of advanced.farm. They describe themselves as a 21st-century ag equipment company centered around robotics, with a current focus on automating harvest and postharvest in fresh fruit. advanced.farm is based in Davis, California and has raised over $35M...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ Agtech - So What? Podcast: https://www.agtechsowhat.com/ Tenacious Ventures: https://tenacious.ventures/ Today’s episode features a conversation on the future of fertilizer with Sarah Nolet. Both of us have been exploring the future of fertilizer on our respective podcasts, and we thought it would be fun to do a joint episode to talk about what we’ve learn...

Try Acres: https://www.acres.co/ The Ugly Company: https://www.theugly.company/ The Business of Food Newsletter: https://jenniferbarney.substack.com/ Today's episode features Ben Moore, founder of The Ugly Company, an upcycled dried fruit snack company. Ben is a 4th generation California farmer tackling the complex problem of food waste. Through Ugly Fruit, Ben is on a mission to achieve zero wast...

Visit Acres: https://www.acres.co/ "How to Grow and Sell Carbon Credits in US Agriculture" https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/html/a1-76.html Dr. Alejandro Plastina is an Associate Professor/Extension Economist in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University (ISU). His area of specialization is agricultural production and technology, with an emphasis on farm business and financia...

Visit our quarterly presenting sponsor, Acres: https://www.acres.co/ Mineral website: https://mineral.ai/ Dr. Elliott Grant is the CEO of Mineral, which is Alphabet's bet in sustainable agriculture.  Mineral is applying the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) to the existential challenge of sustainably doubling the planet’s crop productivity.  Elliott and I really get pa...

Try Acres for free: https://www.acres.co/ Today we hear from AcreTrader with data science director Dr. Aaron Shew. Aaron is unique in that he has an extensive background in agriculture, economics, remote sensing and GIS and of course, data. In his current capacity, Aaron works with a team of software engineers, data scientists, and land experts to build advanced land analytics tools. He has master...

Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ CropIn: https://www.cropin.com/ Software is Feeding the World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/newsletter Today’s episode features Krishna Kumar of CropIn. Krishna shared with me CropIn’s 12 year journey in the agtech world, which I think is in some ways representative of agtech’s journey more generally. They started by building applications for farm...

Visit Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ XtremeAg: https://www.xtremeag.farm/ Farmer innovators featured on this show: Kristjan Hebert Greg Bethard Mike & April Clayton Paul Greive Zack Smith Peter van Wingerden Trey Hill Claire Smith Jesse Pella Patrick Smith Kelly Garrett Mike Evans

Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ California Cotton & Climate Coalition: https://californiacottonandclimatecoalition.com/ Bowles Farming Company: https://bfarm.com/ FiberShed: https://fibershed.org/ Today’s episode is about the work being done by the California Cotton and Climate Coalition or C4. This is an example of a group of people that aren’t interested in the hype and greenwashing...

Sound Ag: https://www.sound.ag/ Ripe Robotics: https://www.riperobotics.com/ Today’s episode features Hunter Jay, CEO and cofounder of Ripe Robotics, a startup working on autonomous harvesting of fruit. The prototype is in small scale commercial trials, and will be ready to scale up in 2023 & 2024. The company has 2 commercial trial partners and another 30 companies on its waitlist, who spend...

Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ Neutral Foods: https://www.eatneutral.com/ Jennifer Barney's "The Business of Food" newsletter: https://jenniferbarney.substack.com/ When I first read about Neutral Foods, I thought “that’s really smart branding”, but can they really back it up? And if so, how? And what’s in it for the farmer to incentivize them to make changes that benefit society, but may...

Visit Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ Do Good Foods: https://dogoodfoods.com/ Harborview Farms: https://www.harborviewfarms.net/ Trey Hill Interview: https://youtu.be/FRC1Ca9klGA Future of Agriculture YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClJpE4tdH2NN6Plj1UIWNwA Justin Kamine co-founded Do Good Foods with his brother Matthew to combat climate change by fighting food waste. The...

Visit Sound Agriculture's website: https://www.sound.ag/ Our featured guests today are Sound Agriculture's CEO Adam Litle, as well as co-founder and CTO Travis Bayer. If you’re thinking you’ve heard all about Sound from previous episodes of this podcast, that’s great! But I will assure you there is a lot more you haven’t heard yet and this episode is well worth your time. Adam and Travis really do...

Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ Farmers Risk: https://farmersrisk.ag/ Today’s episode features Dakota Hoben, co-founder and CEO of Farmers Risk. This is an interesting look at a new startup that is taking on a complicated topic: grain marketing. As many of you know, buying and selling grain is where I started my career, so I’m always curious about companies in this space, but frankly, alw...

Visit Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/ The Breakthrough Institute: https://thebreakthrough.org/ Alex Smith Bio & Articles: https://thebreakthrough.org/people/alex-smith "To Decarbonize Food Production, Washington Must Invest" https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environment/to-decarbonize-food-production-washington-must-invest "The Problem With Alice Waters and the 'Slow...

Visit our sponsor: https://www.sound.ag/ EFC Systems by Ever. Ag: https://www.efcsystems.com/ CropLife, "Top 6 Questions (and Answers) Every Agribusiness Should Be Asking About Cyberattacks and Data Security": https://www.croplife.com/iron/software/top-6-questions-and-answers-every-agribusiness-should-be-asking-about-cyberattacks-and-data-security/ Farm Progress, "Protect your farm from cyberattac...

Visit our sponsor: https://www.sound.ag/ April Clayton Twitter: https://twitter.com/AppleApril111 April the Apple Gal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DOJG_0BOYGv00KAw-CuxQ/videos April on “Real Food, Real People”: https://realfoodrealpeople.org/april-clayton-002/ April on “The Farm Traveler”: https://thefarmtraveler.com/2020/04/22/podcast-episode-53/ April on “What The Farm”: https://f...

Visit our sponsor: https://www.sound.ag/ LandScan: https://landscan.ai/ Today’s episode with LandScan founder and CEO, Dan Rooney. We could spend the entire episode going through Dan’s background and expertise in this field, but I wanted to get right to the interesting work he’s doing at LandScan, a company they’ve been working on quietly since 2019. They’ve developed what they call “the most adva...