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Agtech - So What? — 221 episodes · page 1 of 3
The missing link in agtech adoption, with Pip Job
Can you build a farm for an uncertain future? With Simon Wallwork
Business model breakdowns: ag equipment dealer Titan Machinery, with Shane Thomas
Are we thinking about trees on farms all wrong? with Michael Taylor
What if every plant was a sensor? with Gary Schaefer
Can tech make agriculture brands more authentic? with Jim Gall, RB Sellars
Why good agtech doesn't always get adopted, with Chad Godsey
Why taste beats sustainability at the checkout, with food futurist Mike Lee
Why soil health and profitability are deeply connected, with Nic Kentish
Can dairy’s waste stream power beef’s future? with Daniel Carson
Business model breakdowns: the Monsanto playbook, with Shane Thomas
Can biomaterials compete on price, not just purpose? with Tina Funder
Better outcomes, not lower costs: rethinking agtech in horticulture, with Mark Trzaskoma
Business model breakdowns: co-ops and their future in ag, with Shane Thomas
Halter’s $2 billion question, with founder Craig Piggott
Australian agtech: what we got wrong and right, with Sam Duncan and Natalie Engel
Aligning corporates, startups and investors in agrifood, with Brad Fruth and Frank Wooten
AI as a competitive farming advantage, with Paul Windemuller
Native grains and Indigenous-led food systems, with Jacob Birch
The future of farming is autonomous, with Brett McMickell, Kubota
Making underwater forestry scalable and sustainable, with Andrew Morgan
Have we hit the tipping point for autonomy in ag? with Shane Thomas and Matthew Pryor
The business case for electrifying agriculture, with Mike Casey
The realities of winding up an agtech app, with Nikki Davey
Agtech trends: bundling, unbundling, LLMs and more with Shane Thomas and Matthew Pryor
Putting cotton farmers at the forefront of the industry, with Marzia Lanfranchi
Will China’s cheaper tractors disrupt ag equipment? with Lachlan Monsbourgh
From adoption problems to high-performance farm teams, with Kevin Boyle
Can robotics solve farm labor challenges? with Sophie Thorel and Connie Bowen
Are agtech startups just digital agribusinesses? with Mark Kahn, Omnivore
EHow 'food is medicine' could change farm economics, with Brad McNamara
How policy hamstrings agtech in California, with Walt Duflock
Is AI the secret to next gen soil sampling? with Jack Oslan and Nate Storey
Disrupting the agtech ecosystem: the strategies that shape markets, with Ron Adner
Making sense of recent agtech acquisitions, with Shane Thomas
How GLP-1 drugs are reshaping food and ag, with Mary Shelman
Beyond VC: redeemable equity in agtech, with Connie Bowen
Merging agtech startups to multiply value, with Rob Hannam
Paying for ag R&D when consumers won't, with Brooke Sauer
A business model for novel ingredients, with Jake Berber
Solving for adoption and channel in agtech… so what? with Shane Thomas
From demo farms to adoption, with Wine Australia's Paul Smith and Dave Gerner
Killing weeds without poison, with Liam Hescock
2025 in agtech... so what? with Shane Thomas
How business model innovation changed agtech in 2024
Shortening the long game in livestock breeding, with Gerard Davis
Rethinking who pays in irrigation agtech, with Jairo Trad
The two faces of global ESG in ag, with Catherine Marriott
Pitch breakdown: Fractal Ag, with Ben Gordon and Shane Thomas
Investing in regenerative agriculture supply chains, with Calla Rose Ostrander
When Kansas dries up… in 2050, with Dan Northrup
Unconventional farmer-led finance strategies, with Quint Pottinger
Ag's sci-fi (and non-fiction) future: horizon scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas
Citrus moves north: climate change is already reshaping farms, with Lindy Savelle
How Syngenta is thinking about AI, with Feroz Sheikh
Agtech news... so what? July 2024 with Shane Thomas
Evaluating biologicals businesses: hype vs substance, with Joel Lipsitch
Rebooting agtech software with AI, with Rhishi Pethe
How green is sustainable aviation fuel? with Cris Handel
Agtech news... so what? May 2024 with Shane Thomas
The many faces of farm security, with John Hill
Landfill to farm-fill: cotton waste as a soil solution, with Sam Coulton
Biosecurity meets agtech: preparing for a hotter sicker world, with Sarah Britton
Agtech news… so what? March 2024 with Shane Thomas
Generics, biologicals and the volatile farm inputs market, with Sam Taylor, Rabobank
Getting into the weeds: AI and non-chemical weeding, with Liam Hescock and Guy Coleman
How small growers think about agtech, with Sam Godwin
Agtech news... so what? January 2024 with Shane Thomas
Agtech 2023… so what? A year in review
What a portfolio wind-down teaches you, with Nowadays founder Max Elder
How startups and corporates can do more together, with Kevin McDonald
What do LPs look for in agtech funds? with Eliza Jackson and Sara Balawajder
How outside forces are shaping the food system, with Ian Proudfoot
Methane and the climate commitments that matter most, with Katie Anderson
Bringing systems thinking to the global fertilizer industry, with Alzbeta Klein
How farmers are actually using ChatGPT, with Marc Arnusch
Cultivating agility at a multi-generational food company, with Ashli Blumenfeld and Ben Rosenthal
Who's investing in agribusiness? Live from evokeAG 2023
Is vertical farming dead? with Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin
Electrifying the farm: is it finally viable? with David Meyers
Transforming the future of Australian ag retail, with Rob Dawes
The race to define the future of ag retail, with Shane Thomas
On-farm food loss: the waste we don't see, with Sarah Hulick and Olympia Yarger
How to create incentives for circularity in food system waste
Investing in food waste tech, with Closed Loop Partners and Olympia Yarger
Why dairy and alt-dairy are collaborators, not competitors, with Michael Hampson
How to invest in deep tech in agrifood — tenaciously
Unlocking phosphorus for the future of fertility, with Hunter Swisher
Can molecular farming replace cows with crops? with Amos Palfreyman
Turning animal waste into renewable fertilizer, with Jordan Phasey
Future of fertilizer… so what? with Tim Hammerich
Agtech headlines… so what? Mineral launch, Planet Labs insurance, Deere right-to-repair
Building a food business ecosystem from the farm up, with Michael Bosworth
2022: The year of risk at Agtech… so what?
From climate measurement to risk mitigation, with Cullen Gunn
Why is autonomy in ag so hard? With Ray Russell and Connie Bowen
From buyer beware to seller beware in agtech
The future of nitrogen: new business models, with Jupiter Ionics and Kula Bio
The future of fertilizer: reimagining nitrogen, with Jupiter Ionics and Kula Bio
Climate risk meets the farm balance sheet, with Clay Govier