This show explores the people, companies, and ideas shaping the future of the agriculture industry. Every week, Tim Hammerich talks to the farmers, founders, innovators and investors to share stories of agtech, sustainability, resiliency and the future of food. We believe innovation is an important part of the future of agriculture, and real change comes from collaboration between scientists, entrepreneurs and farmers. Lead with optimism, but also bring data! For more details on the guests f ...
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FoA 417: Commercializing University Research For Better Nutrient Management | Phospholutions | Sentinel Fertigation
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Phospholutions: https://www.phospholutions.com/ Sentinel Fertigation: https://www.sentinelfertigation.com/ I’m a firm believer that in the U.S. our agricultural research and extension programs at our land grant universities truly are national treasures. But of all the outstan…
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FoA 416: Robotic Mushroom Harvesting with Sean O'Connor of 4AG Robotics
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ 4AG Robotics: https://4ag.ai/ As you heard a bit about in last weeks episode, mushrooms are an incredible indoor crop with a ton of advantages and potential. But they are also extremely labor intensive. “When you have a crop that doubles in size every 24 hours, you're often p…
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FoA 415: Farming Mycelium with Eben Bayer of Ecovative
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Ecovative: https://www.ecovative.com/ MyForest Foods: https://myforestfoods.com/ I’ve been meaning to do an episode on mushroom farming and mushroom technology for a long long time. But the right story just never presented itself. Then I got connected with Ecovative and about…
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FoA 414: Amie Thesingh on Leading Technology and Strategy at a 100 Year-Old Agribusiness
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Wilbur-Ellis: https://www.wilburellis.com/ Today's episode features Amie Thesingh, president of ag solutions and chief technology officer at Wilbur-Ellis. Today’s episode is a perfect compliment to last week’s episode with Brad Fruth of Beck’s Hybrids. Both Beck’s and Wilbur-…
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FoA 413: Practical Farm Innovation With Brad Fruth of Beck's Hybrids
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Software is Feeding The World: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw Beck's Hybrids: https://www.beckshybrids.com/ The word “innovation” is tossed around quite a bit - I’m guilty of overusing it myself. But what does it mean? There’s probably no better person to dig into this ques…
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FoA 412: 'Biological' Is Not A Category (it's the future of agriculture)
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ ELO Life: https://elolife.com/ Pairwise: https://www.pairwise.com/home New Leaf Symbiotics: https://www.newleafsym.com/ Harpe Bio: https://harpebio.com/ "Biologicals are ‘economically unfeasible’ According to Report: The Shortcomings and Opportunities" by Upstream Ag Insights…
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FoA 411: Making Technology Your Unfair Advantage with Lawrence King of Headstorm
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Today’s episode features Headstorm CEO Lawrence King. Lawrence has over 18 years of technology strategy consulting experience. He got his start in agtech with Farmlink over eight years ago where he built an engineering team. That company ran into some hard times, and Lawrence…
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FoA 410: The Farm to Fashion Supply Chain With Paul Ensor of Hemprino
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Hemprino: https://www.hemprino.co.nz/ Prime Future Newsletter: https://primefuture.substack.com/ We’ve all heard the stats about how little of what consumers pay makes it back to the farmer or rancher. Some producers, like New Zealand sheep farmer Paul Ensor, are seizing the …
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FoA 409: Is Agtech Entering A GenAI Era? Conversations From World Agri-Tech
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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/ AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/ Bayer Announcement: https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/bayer-pilots-unique-generative-ai-tool-for-agriculture/ Bayer AgPowered Services: https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/bayer-collaboration-with-microsoft-connects-farm-data-to-address-lack-of-data-interoperability-in-agricult…
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[Field Report] Paul Sullivan of P.T. Sullivan Agro on SWAT MAPS
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SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Follow Paul Sullivan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SullivanAgro These Field Report segments are short occasional episodes where we will hear from the people who actually use and hopefully benefit from the innovations we discuss on the show. We’ve already been doing this through the spotlight segments that have air…
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FoA 408: The Future of Precision Agriculture With Dr. Steve Shirtliffe and Dr. Preston Sorenson
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ University of Saskatchewan Precision Agriculture Certificate Program: https://admissions.usask.ca/precision-agriculture.php I wanted to have a conversation about cutting edge tools and the future of digital agriculture, and I definitely think we succeeded in bringing that to you today. …
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FoA 407: Attracting Top Talent to Solve Agribusiness Problems with Christian Guffy of The Context Network
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ The Context Network: https://contextnet.com/ Today's episode features Christian Guffy of the Context Network. I wanted to bring Christian on the show to talk about talent and growing a client services firm. I think those are both interesting and important topics that I haven’t done a go…
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[Field Report] Corteva Research Associate Brett McArtor on SWAT MAPS
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SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Corteva Agriscience: https://www.corteva.com/ These new Field Report segments are short occasional episodes where we will hear from the people who actually use and hopefully benefit from the innovations we discuss on the show. We’ve already been doing this through the spotlight segments that have aired at the end of…
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FoA 406: Health Trends Are Agricultural Opportunities...The Story of WonderCow
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ WonderCow: https://wondercow.com/ The Business of Food Newsletter: https://jenniferbarney.substack.com/ I believe that there are a lot of opportunities for those of us in agriculture in paying attention to food and health trends. I don’t personally love the term “food is medicine”, but …
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FoA 405: From Fintech Startup to the Largest Produce Trader in the World With Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck of ProducePay
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ ProducePay: https://producepay.com/ Today's episode features ProducePay founder Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck. Born and raised in a 4th generation farming family from Mexico, Pablo brings over 20 years of experience in the fresh produce industry. After growing up on the family farm – Campos…
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FoA 404: Digital Solutions for the Largest Ag Retailer in Latin America With Alex Wimbush
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Lavoro Agro: https://www.lavoroagro.com/ Software Is Feeding The World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw Work with Rhishi: https://www.metaldoglabs.ai/ Brazil has officially overtaken the US to become the top corn exporter in the world. And companies like Lavoro Agro are seiz…
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FoA 403: Shrimpin' Ain't Easy with Steve Sutton of TransparentSea
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ TransparentSea: https://www.transparentseafarm.com/ [Video] "How America's Biggest Indoor Shrimp Farm Sells 2 Million Shrimp Every Year": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AK_RQ1uaGs [Video] "Tour of TransparentSea Farm's urban shrimp farm": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnyi1Sc6pk To…
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FoA 402: How To Know When An Ag Company Is Ready For Growth With Jim Taylor of Forage Capital Partners
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Forage Capital Partners: https://foragecapitalpartners.com/ Jim Taylor of Forage Capital Partners. Jim has been involved with financing growth companies for over 20 years and has created and managed seven different funds prior to Forage. He was a founder of three growth equity funds, th…
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[Field Report] Crop Consultant Tyler Kessler shares his experience with SWAT MAPS
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Kessler Ag Ventures: https://kesslerag.ca/ FoA 398: The Evolution of Precision Agriculture with Cory Willness and Derek Massey of Croptimistic Technology This is the first installment of a new series of the podcast called "Field Reports", where we will hear from the people who actually …
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FoA 401: Precision Irrigation With Arthur Chen of Verdi
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Verdi Ag: https://www.verdi.ag/ Arthur Chen is the CEO of Verdi, which is helping to climate-proofing agriculture with the world's first scalable platform to personalize healthcare for plants, helping the world's largest food brands radically optimize farm productivity and sustainabilit…
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FoA 400: Deeper Roots For Resilience and Carbon Sequestration with Michael Ott of Cquesta
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Cquesta website: https://cquesta.com/ FOA 200: Drones for Spraying, Seeding, and Pollinating with Rantizo Michael Ott is the CEO of Cquesta, a deep root trait company that helps crops tolerate stress and earns carbon credits to farmers with no change in agronomic practices. Michael is a…
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FoA 399: The Changing Farm Economy with David Widmar of Agricultural Economic Insights
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Agricultural Economic Insights: https://aei.ag/ AEI.ag Presents Podcast: https://aei.ag/podcast/ David Widmar is an agricultural economist specializing in agricultural trends and the farm economy. Through his research, he supports agribusinesses and farmers in their strategic and planni…
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FoA 398: The Evolution of Precision Agriculture with Cory Willness and Derek Massey of Croptimistic Technology
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Cory Willness on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-willness-78b76246/ Derek Massey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-massey-61aa909a/ SWAT Agronomy Podcast: Apple, Spotify FOA 211: Ground Truthing AgTech with Cory Willness: https://futureofagriculture.com/episode/f…
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FoA 397: Can These Greenhouse Robots Grow The Best Strawberries in the World?
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Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Zordi: https://www.zordi.com/ Casey Call on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-call-03a3b03b/ Technology in agriculture can help reduce production costs and improve efficiencies, but it can also open up new possibilities for quality that goes beyond the average consumers’ expec…
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FoA 396: Mycorrhizal Fungi with Dr. Toby Kiers
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Turn your data into actionable value with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/ Toby Kiers, PhD website: https://tobykiers.com/ Toby's TED TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwvaF3P_5Q&t=273s Scientists are discovering incredible interactions between plants' roots and soil dwelling fungi called mycorrhizal fungi. These relationships are integral to …
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