Upstream Ag Professional

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’

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio editions dives into: Corteva and FMC Results, including the Corteva/FMC settlement and FMC potentially selling their business. Agribusiness Professional GenAI Usage Survey Results

A deep dive into learnings, stories and key takeaways from the book JR Simplot: A Billion the Hard Way. In this episode of Upstream Ag Insights, host Shane Thomas dives deep into the legendary life and business empire of John Richard Simplot through the book A Billion the Hard Way. From a fourteen-year-old runaway to the "wildest billionaire in the West," Simplot’s story is a masterclass in vertic...

The January 25th 2026 edition of Upstream Ag Professional Audio Edition covers: What Claude Code and CoWork Buzz Means for Agribusiness Professionals John Deere Rolls Out See & Spray Gen 2 and Upgrades Sprayer Lineup

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional Audio Edition covers: Are Farmers AgTech Guinea Pigs? BASF Agricultural Solutions Acquisition of AgBiTech

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: 2026 Ag Equipment Dealer Business Outlook & Trends Report Highlights and Analysis The Great Unbundling of Agribusiness NewLife Biosciences Receives Patent Approval for Remediate for Biological Remediation in Agriculture

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Corteva, Hexagon Bio Form Multi-Million Dollar JV to Power Next-Generation of Nature Inspired Solutions GROWMARK Expands St. Louis Manufacturing With Biologicals Production Plant

This week's Upstream Ag Professional Audio Edition breaks down the John Deere 2025 Investor Day, including: Leap Ambitions KPIs AI Efforts New product uptake See & Spray Harvest Automation Autonomy