Upstream Ag Professional

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

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: Provivi, Syngenta strike major Brazil deal on pheromone pest control FMC at Goldman Sachs Industrials and Materials Conference 2025 Harvest Loss Technology 2025 Crop Life 100 Report: Highlights and Analysis

This week's audio edition covers the following: Highlights of multiple stories Retailers Need to Take a Stand

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: Q3 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Results Highlights ICLs New Ambition: Global Specialty Nutrition Dominance Microsoft and Land O’Lakes Collaborate on AI Syngenta opens Cropwise digital platform to developers to co-innovate and tackle agriculture’s technology divide

This week’s audio edition covers the following: Q3 2025 Agribusiness Results Highlights from Corteva, Nutrien, TELUS, Mosaic and CNH John Deere Customers Use See & Spray™ Technology Across Five Million Acres in 2025

Inside Ag Retail Excellence with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group In the first episode of the Upstream Ag Insights interview series, Shane Thomas sits down with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group, to unpack what defines top-performing ag retail businesses today. Brad brings decades of experience across the crop input value chain — from his early days at American Cyanamid and UAP, t...

Inside Ag Retail Excellence with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group In the first episode of the Upstream Ag Insights interview series, Shane Thomas sits down with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group, to unpack what defines top-performing ag retail businesses today. Brad brings decades of experience across the crop input value chain — from his early days at American Cyanamid and UAP, t...

This week’s audio edition covers the following: FMC Q3 2025 Results The Four Forces Reshaping the Crop Protection Industry and What Comes Next

This week's audio edition covers the following: Better, Not Less: How AgZen Is Partnering with Corteva and Reframing Precision Spraying A Look at Valmont Industries and Lindsay Corporation Technology Revenue and Tech Investments Carbon Robotics Raise and Lawsuit

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: The Danger of Dominant Logic: What Pioneer’s Blind Spot Reveals About Disruption in Agriculture Ascribe Bio Closes $12 Million Series A Financing to Advance Next-Generation Natural Crop Protection Co-Led by Acre Venture Partners and Corteva Ecorobotix Crosses Over $200 million Raised: A look at Revenue, Business Model, GTM and Paths to Exi...

The October 12th 2025 Edition covers the following: Revolutionizing Wheat: A look at Corteva, and Competitors, Hybrid Wheat Initiatives Vive Secures $10 Million in Oversubscribed Financing Round Profluent announces multi-year collaboration with Corteva to accelerate sustainable, AI-powered crop innovation OerthBio Shuts Down

This week’s audio edition covers the news on Corteva to Spin-Out Seed from Crop Protection and Liabilities. *Due to some error this week's edition got cut to only the Corteva news.

The topics covered in this week's audio edition include: Highlights from other stories in the written edition. AskUpstream Overview Drone Startup Guardian Agriculture Shuts Down + Are VCs to blame? Salience Bias and Model Usage in Ag

This week's edition covers: WIPO Agriculture Patent Landscape Report Highlights and Analysis H1 2025 Agrifood Funds Report Nutrien Says The Future Is A ‘Clicks and Mortar Business’

This week's edition covers the following: Clockspeed and Capital Allocation in Ag: Are food and agriculture giants sleepwalking into irrelevance? Corteva explores splitting seed and pesticide units

This week's audio edition covers: Patent Breakdowns: Nitrogen Fixing Technology Follow up from Moa and Gowan Partnership Last Week: Amplifiers and Corteva Fungicide Synergist Patent Application Land O’Lakes, Inc. and Local Ag Retailers Announce Participation in AgRogue Growth Partners to Find, Fund and Scale New Ag Technologies

This week's ediiton covers the following topics: Moa develops groundbreaking category of crop protection; signs partnership deal with Gowan VCs Should Still Chase Agtech Cinderella’s

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio covers: Q2 2025 Equipment Manufacturer Results Highlights, Themes and Analysis What Crop Input Providers Can Learn from Louis Vuitton, Ferrari and Gucci Perception Risk in Farming

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers: Q2 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results: Themes, Highlights and Analysis Competing on Analytics and the Future of Ag Input Commercialization John Deere Q3 2025 Results Building to Exit: Lessons from Bilberry's Journey & Acquisition