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Voices of the Valley — 169 episodes

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Celebrating Women in Ag

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From San Francisco to the Farm with Jacie and Zac

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Six Generations of Farming in California’s Central Valley

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Four Generations of Farming with the Talleys

5

Picking Memories at Tanaka Farms

6

Agtech’s Field of Dreams in Salinas

7

The 411 on H-2A

8

The Canyon House - A Sanctuary for Draft Horses

9

Agritourism: From Goat Yoga to Pumpkin Patches

10

Connecting Community to Farms and Fields

11

The Connection Between Farming, Food and Wellness

12

The Next Generation of Ag Leaders

13

Sniffing Out Pests with Agriculture Detector Dogs

14

Peeling Back the Farmer's Curtain with Chelsea Ketelsen

15

Olive Oil Unfiltered with Vincent Ricchiuti from Enzo Olive Oil Company

16

Cantaloupe 411 with Westside Produce's Garrett Patricio

17

Farm to Fork for Real with San Miguel Produce’s Garrett Nishimori

18

Innovations in Cross-Border Health Care for Ag Workers

19

The Nuts and Bolts of Almonds with Stuart Woolf, President and CEO of Woolf Farming & Processing

20

Megan Kavanaugh from Bio S.I. Talks About the Amazing World That Exists in the Soil on Voices of the Valley

21

What Fresh Produce Does a Food Safety Scientist Buy for Their Kids?

22

Katie Chiapuzio from Braga Fresh on How Bees Benefit Produce

23

Do You Really Know Where Your Food Comes From?

24

2024 Look Ahead: Agriculture’s Biggest Challenges

25

How Bayer’s Dr. Frank Wong Overcame His Skepticism About Biologicals

26

Asking the Right Questions with Josh Ruiz, Senior Director of Ag Technology and Innovation, on Voices of the Valley

27

Rabo Research's David Magaña on a Global Approach to Consumer Desires

28

Farmers are Entrepreneurs: Citi’s Adam Bergman Talks Agtech

29

Alex Cochran Discusses the Value of Biologicals in Agriculture

30

Christine Birdsong, Undersecretary for the CDFA, Talks Sustainable Pest Management Solutions on This Week’s Voices of the Valley

31

Amazon Web Services’ Elizabeth Fastiggi on Guiding the Industry to be More Predictive with Agtech Innovation

32

Hernan Hernandez on Working to Give Farmworkers a Voice in Politics and Policy

33

Ian LeMay, President of the California Fresh Fruit Association, on how Agtech Bolsters Ag Labor

34

Bountiful Founder and CEO Megan Nunes Wants to Use Satellites to Revolutionize Farming

35

Adrian Percy, Executive Director of the North Carolina Plant Science Initiative, Talks About the Exciting Rise of Automated Farm Equipment

36

The Future of Sustainable Desalination

37

Radicle Growth CEO and Managing Partner Kirk Haney on the Secret to Successful Agtech Investing

38

Tom Mulholland and the Bottom Line of Agriculture – Productivity

39

Stuart Woolf: Agtech from Apple Computers to Almonds

40

Belinda Clarke and the Many Ways Science Can Help Growers Adapt

41

Seana Day: How Farmers Can Use Technology to Make Financially Sound Decisions

42

Simon Pearson from The Lincoln Institute of Agri-Food Technology Talks Agtech Solutions on a Global Scale

43

Farm from a Box’s Brandi DeCarli on Creating Local Food Access Through Entrepreneurship

44

Central Valley Foundation CEO and Former Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin: Focused on a Better Future

45

Netafim’s President and CEO Mike Hemman Discusses How Growers Can Respond to California’s Record Drought

46

Eurofins U.S. Chief Science Officer Joelle Mosso on Why Testing Can't Solve Food Safety Problems

47

Carl Casale of Ospraie Ag Science on Doing More With Less

48

Trimble's Mike Dentinger on Strategies to Reach the Finish Line with Global Harvest Automation

49

The Produce Moms' Lori Taylor on Educating Consumers About Food and Farming

50

Stout CEO Brent Shedd Explores Artificial Intelligence in Ag

51

Global Competition Requires Urgent Supply Chain Tech Innovation

52

Jack Vessey on the Pressing Need to Implement Technology in Desert Agriculture

53

Linking Small Farmers and Scientists on the International Stage

54

Genius Beehives with Dick Rogers, Entomologist at Bayer Crop Science

55

Hank Giclas Tribute, Part Two

56

Remembering Hank Giclas, Part One

57

Sun World CEO David Marguleas Explains the Successful Strategies Behind a New Product Launch

58

New Zealand Forecasts the Future of Agriculture Amid Climate Change

59

En Solucion and Seeking the Food Safety Holy Grail

60

Grimmway Farms' Jeff Morrison on Using Business Acumen to Direct Agtech Investments

61

Tom Nunes and Monitoring the Speed of Technology Adoption on the Farm

62

Albert Keck, Pt. 2: It's Time to Stop Just Preaching to the Choir About Ag

63

Hadley Date Gardens President and Western Growers Chair Albert Keck on the Future of Specialty Crops

64

The Yield Lab and the Exponential Growth Potential of Latin America

65

Food Safety and Using Automation to Mitigate Risk

66

Space AG and the Secret to Producing More Food with Less Effort

67

Farmer's Business Network and the Power of a Big Idea for Small Farmers

68

Verdant Robotics Pt. 2: Turning Fieldworkers Into Data Workers

69

Verdant Robotics and the Secret to Making Farmers Superhuman, Pt. 1

70

Don Cameron on How Innovation and Automation Can Boost California Agriculture

71

Agtech's Role in Combating Climate Change

72

Farming's Secret Weapon: California Community Colleges

73

Cybersecurity and the Virtual Threats to Farming

74

Working at the Digital Farm of the Future

75

AI on the Farm: Sensing What Humans Can't

76

Using Social Media to Educate the Masses about Agriculture

77

Navigating Climate Change: A Guide on How to Use Technology to Foster Climate-Resilient Agriculture

78

Are Farm Robots Making a Dent in the Agriculture Labor Gap?

79

To Advance Food Safety, Get Out of the Box

80

AG Kawamura [Part 2]: Forging Uncommon Collaborations to Solve World Hunger

81

AG Kawamura [Part 1]: Dissecting the 21st Century Ag Renaissance

82

How to Establish Trust When it Comes to Food Safety

83

Lemons and Oranges and Limes, Oh My!

84

Inside the Brave New World of Pest Management

85

How to Make Tech Adoption Go from Revolution to Evolution

86

When NASA and Farming Collide

87

Changing the Farm Narrative through Innovation & Workforce Development

88

Intersection of Ag and Tech: Emerging Trends in 2022

89

Building Communities for Resuscitating Water Conservation

90

How to Become an Agtech Impact Rainmaker

91

The Interplay Between Water, Tech and Regulation

92

The Next Wave of AgTech: Plant Probiotics

93

Dawn of the Drones: Spraying, Pollination and Imaging

94

Organic Farming: Selling Health, Well-Being and Lifestyle

95

Leveraging Military Expertise to Grow a Startup

96

Hands-Free is the Only Way to Be

97

What Happens When Your Co-Worker is a Robot?

98

Almond Evolution: Self-Pollinating Varieties, Rootstock Gene Editing, Labor-Saving Tech

99

Tackling Food Waste: Tech as the Watchdog of Quality Control

100

Building Autonomous Farm Tractors…and Totally Winning

101

Rise of the City Bee: Building Urban Bee Farms

102

Peter Wren-Hilton of Wharf42/Agritech New Zealand

103

Tim York of California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement

104

Walt Duflock of Western Growers and Neill Callis of Turlock Fruit Company

105

Neill Callis of Turlock Fruit Company and Walt Duflock of Western Growers

106

Amy Tomlinson of Concentric Power

107

Candace Wilson of GreenVenus

108

Hank Giclas of Western Growers

109

Rodrigo Nieto Gómez of Naval Postgraduate School

110

Carol Snyder of Trimble Inc.

111

Dennis Donohue of WG Center for Innovation and Technology

112

Brian Curtis of Concentric Power

113

Richard Strafehl of Healthy Cow Corporation

114

Jon King and Robert Forsythe of Milk Moovement

115

Martha Montoya of AgTools (part 2)

116

Martha Montoya of AgTools (part 1)

117

Aaron Archibald of CO2 GRO Inc.

118

Abby Taylor-Silva of Grower-Shipper Association (part 2)

119

Abby Taylor-Silva of Grower-Shipper Association (part 1)

120

Brian Dawson of HarvestPort (part 2)

121

Brian Dawson of HarvestPort (part 1)

122

Roi Adar of RootsTalk

123

Genevieve Griffin-George of PICMI

124

John McPherson of rfxcel

125

Elliot Jaramillo of Concept Clean Energy

126

Jamie Bacher of Boost Biomes

127

Jason Mellow of Croptracker, Inc.

128

Natasha Shields of Nuffield Australia Farming Scholars

129

Harry Ferdon of SWIIM System

130

U.S. AG Solutions

131

Tensorfield Agriculture

132

John Skardon of Tailwater Systems

133

Amy Wu of From Farms to Incubators

134

Harrison Enright of iTradeNetwork

135

Virginia Corless of Novihum Technologies

136

Mike Dodson of Pago

137

Richard De Andrade of Solare Trace Inc.

138

Aaron Gobin of AgVoice

139

Charles McGregor of GeoVisual Analytics

140

Jesse Arteaga of Ganaz

141

Pádraig Whelan of ApisProtect

142

Hank Giclas of Western Growers

143

Connor Cunningham of WaterBit

144

Eyal Amit of FieldIn

145

Dan Reighn of iTrade Network

146

Willard Lewallen of Hartnell College

147

Chris Becerra of Terrapin Systems

148

Capp Culver of California Safe Soil

149

Ruchit Garg of Harvesting

150

Martha Montoya at AgTools

151

David Moore & Cesar Martin at MagGrow

152

Jim Stottlemyre at UNIBEST

153

Kevin Payne of Zest Labs, Inc.

154

Aidan Mouat of Hazel Technologies, Inc.

155

Anita Garcia of CSU Monterey Bay

156

Bruce Rasa of AgVoice

157

Nora La Torre of Ganaz

158

Diane Wetherington of iFood Decision Sciences

159

Raja Ramachandran of Ripe.io

160

Brian Curtis of Concentric Power

161

Colin Brown of TracMap

162

Abby Taylor-Silva of Grower-Shipper Association of Central California

163

Nathan Dorn of Food Origins

164

Patrick Zelaya of HeavyConnect

165

Drew Ketelsen of HMC Farms

166

Robert McBride of Boost Biomes

167

Colby Pereira of Costa Farms

168

Kevin France of SWIIM Systems

169

Sean Duncan of Duncan Family Farms