1/23/26 - The Ag Executive Episode 20: Interview with Agromillora's Cliff Beumel: Navigating the Next Bottlenecks in California Specialty Crops

Cliff Beumel, CEO and president of Agromillora, joins Jason Scott to share what he sees from the front end of California’s value chain. He explains why today’s challenges go beyond a single bottleneck, driven instead by higher interest rates, tighter margins, trade uncertainty and global competition. Beumel discusses the shift toward risk mitigation, how diversification is shaping nursery demand, the cost of delaying replant decisions, and why olives offer a lower-input, domestic-market hedge in a volatile ag economy.