Packed with trivia, comedy and celebrity guests, Ask Me Another is like an amusement park for your brain. Host Ophira Eisenberg and musician Jonathan Coulton take brilliant contestants on a roller coaster that'll make you laugh and scream (out the answers)—and barely anyone throws up in a trash can.
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Welcome to Eddies1minute.com where you can enjoy a daily minute of piano inspired pop rock from independent pop artist, Eddie Cain Irvin. This piano pop musician hails from Buffalo, New York.
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A podcast about people being unreasonable on the internet. Specifically on Mumsnet.com's AIBU forum. Our theme song is 'I Feel Fantastic' by Jonathan Coulton from the album 'Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms' (2005) which is licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0 license.
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We tell the stories of innovators at the intersection of agriculture and technology to answer the question: what really is agtech and why should you care?
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Latest talks and other audio from The Bethel - Old Trafford Christadelphian Church
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Ag’s Scifi (and Non-Fiction) Future: Horizon Scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas
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We’ve been thinking (and talking, and writing) a lot lately about the forces that are shaping the future of agriculture. There are the more obvious ones– artificial intelligence and mandatory climate disclosures– to the less obvious, like the ubiquity of remotely sensed data and geoengineering. All of these forces, and others like them, are not onl…
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Citrus Moves North with Farmer and Orangepreneur Lindy Savelle
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When people talk about the impacts of climate change on agriculture, they usually use the future tense. The reality, though, is that climate change already is, and has been, changing global conditions enough to cause meaningful shifts in agricultural production. Case in point, where Florida was once known both nationally and globally as the US’s ci…
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How Syngenta is thinking about AI with Feroz Sheikh
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Not too long ago, we co-published a paper on the future of AI called “Yield Maps Killed AgTech Software, Can AI Save It?” and got a ton of great responses from across the industry. One such responder wrote in from his seat at the Syngenta Group, where he’s helped the organization go from zero to 250 million acres digitally served in just five years…
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AgTech News …So What? July 2024 with Shane Thomas
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This week, we’re breaking down the freshest announcements from the agribusiness, agtech, and broader policy and tech worlds to share insights and ask “so what?” Sarah and Matthew are joined this week by Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights. For more information and resources, visit our website. The information in this post is not investment…
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Evaluating Biologicals Businesses with Joel Lipsitch
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For better or worse, the biologicals space is still in the process of repairing a reputation that was marred by years of over-promising and under-delivering. Yet big advances have been made in recent years, helping improve agricultural productivity while reducing the industry’s dependence on chemical pesticides and fertilizers. But discerning betwe…
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Rebooting AgTech Software with AI, with Rhishi Pethe
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We are certainly not alone in our interest in how artificial intelligence will shape agriculture in the coming years. We’ve been learning out loud about both the tech that might emerge, but also about how AI might shape existing tools, especially agtech software. In our recent report, Yield Maps Killed AgTech Software, Can AI Fix It?, we put forwar…
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How green is sustainable aviation fuel? With Cris Handel
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As the US works to hammer out requirements for sustainable aviation fuel tax credits, the potential for the airline industry to open a huge new market for oil seeds has watchers in the sustainability space wondering what’s next. Will the opportunity for agtech to provide producers with the tools they need to meet production requirements and prove s…
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AgTech News …So What? May 2024 with Shane Thomas
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This week, we’re breaking down the freshest announcements from the agribusiness, agtech, and broader policy and tech worlds to share insights and ask “so what?” Sarah is joined this week by Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights. For more information and resources, visit our website. The information in this post is not investment advice or a …
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The Many Faces of Farm Security with John Hill
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At the intersection of ubiquitous and affordable cameras and internet connections, growing farm sizes, and increasing environmental and social vulnerabilities sits the opportunity of farm security. The number of applications for this kind of remote monitoring are endless– from discouraging stock and equipment theft (or solving cases after the fact)…
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Landfill to Farm-fill: Rethinking Waste with Sam Coulton
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The modern fashion industry creates a ton of waste. From the field to the cutting line, to the supply chain and consumers' closets, today’s ultra-cheap “fast fashion” obsession means everyday a lot of fiber gets carted off to landfills around the world. Some amount of that fiber however– especially cotton– is not only biodegradable, it can actually…
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Biosecurity Meets AgTech: Preparing for a hotter sicker world with Sarah Britton
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As the world continues to get more crowded and less climatically predictable, the risk of biosecurity issues– from pest and disease invasions to food security and environmental health concerns– is only growing. Science and technology have major roles to play in helping us prepare for possible risks, and deal with them when they arise. Today, we’re …
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AgTech News …So What? March 2024 with Shane Thomas
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This week, we’re breaking down the freshest announcements from the agribusiness, agtech, and global ag policy worlds to share insights and ask “so what?” Sarah is joined this week by Tenacious Ventures Managing Partner J. Matthew Pryor and Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights. For more information and resources, visit our website. The infor…
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Generics, Biologicals, and the Volatile Farm Inputs Market with Sam Taylor, Rabobank
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The global ag sector has recently passed a turning point, with prices and future outlooks for key commodities taking a decidedly pessimistic turn. Though market volatility is nothing new for producers, it does change the profitability equation. One of the first targets for pencil-sharpening and scrutiny tends to be farm inputs– from crop protection…
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Getting into the Weeds: AI, Computer Vision, and the Future of Non-Chemical Weeding
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Weeds are a very expensive problem. According to one 2016 study, if weeds were left to grow unchecked in agricultural fields across just the US and Canada, the cost in lost productivity would total over $43 billion. And challenges are mounting. Though the last century has been ruled by crop protection chemistries that have kept weeds at bay– crafty…
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How Small Growers Think about AgTech, with Sam Godwin, Washington Apple Grower
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There are few areas of the ag sector that are more in need of tech solutions than tree fruits. All around the world, factors like labor shortages, an aging farm workforce, mounting regulations, and rising costs have put fresh produce growers in a bind. AgTech innovators have been hard at work on tools - especially harvesting tools - for years. But …
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AgTech News …So What? January 2024 with Shane Thomas
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This week, in a new experimental format, we’re breaking down the freshest announcements from leaders in the agribusiness, agtech, and ag production worlds to share insights and ask “so what?” Sarah is joined this week by Tenacious Ventures Managing Partner J. Matthew Pryor and Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights. What John Deere’s announce…
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We all love lists - Malcolm Storer - 2024-01-07
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A new year brings many things - one of which is the lists of resolutions and changes we hope to make in our lives. Malcolm eases us into 2024 with the challenge to make a list of our convictions for the new year - what are your permanent truths that guide your life? Malcolm shares 5 of his to serve as inspiration for us and our year ahead.…
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Somehow it’s December again, and another year has come and nearly gone. We've spent a lot of time reflecting on the highs and lows of a particularly unpredictable year for Tenacious Ventures, our portfolio companies, and agtech more broadly. In that spirit, we’re taking time to talk about what we've learned from a year of fundraising, advising, lea…
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