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Agtech - So What? — 221 episodes · page 2 of 3
Legacy finance eyes agtech: what bankers think of startups, with Romie Basra
Systems thinking and the legacy of Big Food, with Dr Nigel Hughes, Kellogg
Parametric insurance from the farm: a farmer's view, with Tom Ferguson
What commodity agriculture can learn from organic farming, with Amy Bruch
Defining the future of ag advocacy, with Emma Germano
Bonus episode: Your responses to 'The three fears of farm data'
Three categories of autonomy in agriculture, with Andrew Bate
Who actually pays for carbon programs in agriculture? with Emma Fuller
Ag insurance… so what? Our verdict on the risk frontier
The future of insurance in agriculture, with Damon Johnson
Bonus episode: Ag Insurance 101, with Matt Coutts and Matthew Pryor
From the vault: carbon-neutral farming at Jigsaw Farms, with Mark Wootton
How a sixth-generation farmer makes decisions in uncertainty, with Hallie Shoffner
Bonus episode: The three fears of farm data
Services and software for on-farm autonomy, with Iftach Birger
Economic development and the social fabric of agriculture, with Elizabeth Brennan
Unscrambling go-to-market (and brand) in alternative protein, with Tanja Bogumil
Bonus episode: The state of fundraising in agtech
Biologicals are exciting — but the real action is beyond the farmgate, with Ben Barlow
Meeting in the middle on sustainable supply chains, with Jessie Deelo
The authenticity premium in agtech marketing, with Camille Grade and Travis Martin
Win-win business models for farmers and startups, with Marissa Cuevas Flores
Genetics, biosecurity and the cutest sheep in the world, with Dr Belinda Cardinal
Soil tech is easy in the lab, hard as a business, with Adam Litle
From the vault: the tech-enabled future of sheep genetics, with Mark Ferguson
What's the role of government in agtech ecosystems? with Salvatore Lavallo
Bonus: Later-stage agtech startup wrap, feat. Anastasia Volkova
Later-stage lessons #3: building a $3.9B farmers' network, with Charles Baron
Later-stage lessons #2: when you ask for their money, people tell the truth, with Paul Lightfoot
Later-stage lessons #1: from idea to 100+ employees, with Michael Gilbert
Bonus episode: Investing in tech to enable regen ag
Why you should give a f*ck about farming, with Gabrielle Chan
Farmers and startups: lessons and tips for collaborating across the divide
Bonus episode: The economics of valuing natural capital, with Ken Henry
Special episode: Our most popular guests on soil carbon, regen ag and the future
Getting off the commodities treadmill, with Loran Steinlage
Designing crops to change the plant-based food system, with Matt Crisp
Bonus episode: Did Silicon Valley kill agtech?
Red meat and climate: the case for nuance, with Jason Strong, MLA
Is the future of farming hands-free? with Kit Franklin
Commercialising biologicals: from research to startup, with Jacqueline Heard and Nancy Schellhorn
Bonus episode: Capitalism for good, feat. David Lee from AppHarvest and Impossible Foods
Biologicals: snake oil or science? with Jarrett Chambers and Shane Thomas
India's farmer protests: what they mean for innovation in agriculture
Bonus Episode: The five forces shaping the future of food and ag, with Sarah Nolet
Sustainable supply chains: eliminating waste and unlocking business opportunities
Toyota's lean system comes to the farm, with Jana Hocken
New Zealand's dairy pollution problem, and the innovation it's driving, with Mat Hocken and Bridgit Hawkins
Bringing the public along on plant genetics, with Vonnie Estes
What's the incentive? Turning soil carbon into a commodity
The agtech adoption dilemma: why irrigation tech doesn't sell itself
Can livestock be sustainable? with Frank Mitloehner and Kerryann Kocher
A small non-profit farm near NYC wants to change the food system, with Stone Barns Center
Busting food and farming myths with evidence, with Rob Paarlberg
Can Coca-Cola make the food system more sustainable? with Ulrike Sapiro
What it's REALLY like to work in an agtech startup
Breaking into agtech when you don't 'look the part', with four women leaders
Scaling soil carbon markets: the race to make it pay, with Cargill, Nori and more
Farming eggs the startup way, with Sarah Sivyer
Bringing technology to a 200-year-old sheep station, with Matt Crozier
From defense to disruption: how big food approaches sustainability, with Mary Shelman
All farming is exploitative'? A journalist's tough questions on ag, with Sarah Mock
Regenerative ag: our verdict, with Sarah Nolet and Matthew Pryor
Greenwashing or good business? The regenerative ag debate, live
Can McDonald's scale for good? with Nicole Johnson-Hoffman
Why General Mills is betting a million acres on regenerative ag, with Jay Watson
Wagyu without owning a cow: startup logic meets regen farming, with Sam Trethewey
Carbon-neutral since 2011: the Jigsaw Farms story, with Mark Wootton
From 160 acres and 40 cows to 20 families: growing with tech, with Karmen Mehmen
Social license, science comms and the cotton farmer's story, with Renée Anderson
The world's only carbon-neutral fishing company, with David Carter
Three leading farmers on the tech they use every day: live from evokeAG
How Bayer and Trimble buy and build agtech, with Jim Chambers and Derek Norman
The alternative protein debate: disruption or opportunity for ag? live panel
Building agtech with growers, not for them, with Pete Nelson
Three barriers to agtech adoption (and COVID's impact on food), with Evan Fraser
Rebroadcast: how indoor farming makes money, with Allison Kopf
Bonus episode: live panel from evokeAG 2020 featuring global agrifood tech experts
Can a family vineyard go carbon neutral and make money? with Alisdair Tulloch
The tech-enabled future of sheep genetics, with Mark Ferguson
Where the real money is in agtech, with farmer-builder Mic Fels
Drought, dust storms and value-adding a family farm, with Fiona Aveyard
Farmers who became founders: two startup journeys, with Fee Turner and Lee Coleman
Making six-figure decisions on a regenerative cattle farm, with Stuart Austin
Farmer-led startups: building while farming, with Ashlea Miles and David Ricardo
Facial recognition for cows, with Aidan Connolly
What it takes for researchers and startups to collaborate in agtech: live panel
A farmer's view on the GMO and sheep controversies, with Murray Scholz
From commodity to identity: systems investing in food and ag, with Victor Friedberg, S2G Ventures
Getting a job in agtech: what companies are really looking for, with Tim Hammerich
The overlooked role of women in agtech adoption, with Dr Rachel Hay
Farming regeneratively before the word existed, with Peter Thompson
Inside Indigo Ag: $650M raised, and what it learned visiting Australia, with Dan Harburg
From extraction to regeneration: investing for returns and impact, with Ben Krasnostein
Why bigger isn't always better in agtech, with Andrew Whitlock
Two cotton farmers built Australia's biggest solar-diesel pump, with Karin Stark and Jon Elder
From corporate careers to tropical fruit: being agtech ready, with Jess and Matt Fealy
Farming with climate change, not against it, with Anika Molesworth
Agtech at scale: running a 2,000-hectare corporate farm, with Lachlan Sutton
Getting agtech ready: what a three-generation cropping family does right, with Tim Rethus