Future of Agriculture

Future of Agriculture
CATEGORY: Business
Welcome to the Future of Agriculture Podcast with Tim Hammerich.
This show explores the people, companies, and ideas shaping the future of agribusiness. If you are curious about innovations in AgTech, rural entrepreneurship, agricultural sustainability, and food security, this is the show for you!
For more details on the guests featured on this show, visit the blog at www.FutureOfAg.com. Or, to learn more about career opportunities in agriculture, visit www.AgGrad.com
Make sure you’re subscribed so you can catch another fascinating ag innovator next week!
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FoA 247: How to Stop Herbicide-Resistant WeedsToday’s guests are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Israel-based WeedOut, a biological herbicide company which uses proprietary pollen to sterilize weeds like Palmer Amaranth, otherwise known as pigweed. Dr. Efra…
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FoA 246: Unlocking Grazing Potential with Virtual Fe…Today Janette Barnard co-hosts to bring us an innovative virtual fencing product for cattle ranchers. Frank Wooten joins us as the founder of Vence. Vence offers producers optionality in their grazing operation…
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FoA 244: Farm Data Analytics with Aaron Gault of Adv…Aaron Gault is the cofounder and agronomy manager of Advanced Agrilytics. Aaron focuses on in-season crop management and the understanding of real-time crop performance influenced by the environmental condition…
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FoA 243: Farm Data Economics with Terry Griffin, Ph.…I’ve been meaning to bring Dr. Terry Griffin on the show for a long time, because he is not only well-researched and data-driven, but as you’ll hear he’s not afraid to explore ideas that may be somewhat unconve…
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FoA 242: Regenerative Research and Demonstration wit…We have on today’s show, someone who is both a regenerative farmer and a scientist, Dr. Jonathan Lundgren. Dr. Lundgren is the director ECDYSIS Foundation, and CEO for Blue Dasher Farm in South Dakota. He recei…
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FoA 241: From Drives to Driverless with Craig Rupp o…Craig Rupp is the CEO and founder of Sabanto. Prior to founding Sabanto he was a cofounder of 640 Labs where FieldView Drive was originally created. The first part of today’s episode will be about Craig’s journ…
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FoA 240: Conservation Agriculture at Scale with Jaso…Join the FoA Community: www.Patreon.com/agricultureJason Weller is the Vice President of Truterra, LLC, the sustainability solutions business of Land O’Lakes Inc, one of the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooper…
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FoA 239: Sensors for Predicting Grain Quality with N…Today we are joined by Naeem Zafar. Naeem is a 7x serial entrepreneur and 5x CEO, with multiple successful exits. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, an IoT company creating real-time wireless…
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FoA 238: 5 Barriers Limiting Agtech (and the compani…1. Too much risk being put on the buyer (in most cases, the producer)2. Limited rural Connectivity3. Lack of integrations between ag technologies4. Scarcity of precision-first implementation equipment5. Inabili…
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FoA 237: Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Ag…Craig Ganssle is the founder and CEO of Farmwave: an agriculture technology company that is transforming the world’s agricultural information into AI data models that power decision-making and preserve the fut…
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FoA 236: A Call for Startups to the Cattle Feeding I…One of the biggest criticisms of ag tech and really many ag innovations in general is they often seem to be a solution that is looking for a problem rather than the alternative. This mismatch is often doomed to…
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FoA 235: The Fastest Growing Tilapia Farm in AfricaVictory Farms is a Tilapia farming operation on Lake Victoria in Kenya. Since it was founded in 2015 it has become the largest fish farm in East Africa and is now the fastest growing Tilapia Farm in all of Afri…
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FoA 234: What Data do Farmers Trust? In10t Series Fi…This is the series finale of exploring agtech adoption with In10t. Co-founder and COO Kevin Heikes joins as co-host to setup this episode which features Josh Miller and Elizabeth Blessum from BASF. Make sure yo…
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FoA 233: Walmart Reinvents Their Beef Supply ChainJanette Barnard is back to guest co-host and interview Lamar Steiger, who is a consultant helping Walmart rethink their beef supply chain. Janette is the author of Prime Future, a weekly newsletter about trends…
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FoA 232: Are Agtech and Regenerative Agriculture Ali…Visit another great podcast: www.OffIncome.com. Are agtech and regenerative agriculture at odds? Regenerative is committed to working with nature, agtech is often trying to manipulate nature in some way. Agtech…
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FoA 231: Fixing Nitrogen with Karsten Temme of Pivot…Checkout the Off Farm Income Podcast: www.OffIncome.com. We have on the show Karsten Temme, CEO and co-founder of Pivot Bio. Pivot’s first product, Proven, is a microbe that when applied to corn can allow the p…
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FoA 230: Agtech is Booming in Brazil with Francisco…Today we explore an international agtech powerhouse, Brazil. And we have the perfect guest to talk about the developing agtech ecosystem in the country, Francisco Jardim. Francisco is the Founding Partner at SP…
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FoA 229: NanoGuard is Reducing Food Waste and Improv…Typically when we think of food waste we imagine processed food ending up in the landfill. In this episode we explore a solution to reduce crop waste caused by microbes, mycotoxins or viral particles. Nanoguard…
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FOA 228: Solving the Rural Connectivity Problem with…Rural locations often have limited connectivity to cellular data. Dr. Sara Spangelo is the CEO and co-founder of Swarm Technologies. Their company launches constellations of small, sandwich-sized, low cost, two…