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Agtech - So What?

Sarah Nolet

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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Episodios

222 episodios

  1. Who benefits from the renewable energy transition? With Tracy Lefroy 41:00
  2. The missing link in agtech adoption, with Pip Job 46:28
  3. Can you build a farm for an uncertain future? With Simon Wallwork 41:53
  4. Business model breakdowns: ag equipment dealer Titan Machinery, with Shane Thomas 41:16
  5. Are we thinking about trees on farms all wrong? with Michael Taylor 43:12
  6. What if every plant was a sensor? with Gary Schaefer 33:40
  7. Can tech make agriculture brands more authentic? with Jim Gall, RB Sellars 43:21
  8. Why good agtech doesn't always get adopted, with Chad Godsey 34:34
  9. Why taste beats sustainability at the checkout, with food futurist Mike Lee 42:20
  10. Why soil health and profitability are deeply connected, with Nic Kentish 42:28
  11. Can dairy’s waste stream power beef’s future? with Daniel Carson 36:57
  12. Business model breakdowns: the Monsanto playbook, with Shane Thomas 47:16
  13. Can biomaterials compete on price, not just purpose? with Tina Funder 34:09
  14. Better outcomes, not lower costs: rethinking agtech in horticulture, with Mark Trzaskoma 33:30
  15. Business model breakdowns: co-ops and their future in ag, with Shane Thomas 38:00
  16. Halter’s $2 billion question, with founder Craig Piggott 32:32
  17. Australian agtech: what we got wrong and right, with Sam Duncan and Natalie Engel 26:56
  18. Aligning corporates, startups and investors in agrifood, with Brad Fruth and Frank Wooten 51:41
  19. AI as a competitive farming advantage, with Paul Windemuller 29:57
  20. Native grains and Indigenous-led food systems, with Jacob Birch 39:50
  21. The future of farming is autonomous, with Brett McMickell, Kubota 41:52
  22. Making underwater forestry scalable and sustainable, with Andrew Morgan 47:28
  23. Have we hit the tipping point for autonomy in ag? with Shane Thomas and Matthew Pryor 32:02
  24. The business case for electrifying agriculture, with Mike Casey 44:56
  25. The realities of winding up an agtech app, with Nikki Davey 45:36
  26. Agtech trends: bundling, unbundling, LLMs and more with Shane Thomas and Matthew Pryor 32:14
  27. Putting cotton farmers at the forefront of the industry, with Marzia Lanfranchi 31:43
  28. Will China’s cheaper tractors disrupt ag equipment? with Lachlan Monsbourgh 37:44
  29. From adoption problems to high-performance farm teams, with Kevin Boyle 41:14
  30. Can robotics solve farm labor challenges? with Sophie Thorel and Connie Bowen 43:31
  31. Are agtech startups just digital agribusinesses? with Mark Kahn, Omnivore 29:39
  32. How 'food is medicine' could change farm economics, with Brad McNamara 39:16
  33. How policy hamstrings agtech in California, with Walt Duflock 38:30
  34. Is AI the secret to next gen soil sampling? with Jack Oslan and Nate Storey 36:40
  35. Disrupting the agtech ecosystem: the strategies that shape markets, with Ron Adner 42:48
  36. Making sense of recent agtech acquisitions, with Shane Thomas 35:55
  37. How GLP-1 drugs are reshaping food and ag, with Mary Shelman 37:34
  38. Beyond VC: redeemable equity in agtech, with Connie Bowen 34:36
  39. Merging agtech startups to multiply value, with Rob Hannam 33:27
  40. Paying for ag R&D when consumers won't, with Brooke Sauer 36:40
  41. A business model for novel ingredients, with Jake Berber 35:56
  42. Solving for adoption and channel in agtech… so what? with Shane Thomas 36:10
  43. From demo farms to adoption, with Wine Australia's Paul Smith and Dave Gerner 38:31
  44. Killing weeds without poison, with Liam Hescock 36:27
  45. 2025 in agtech... so what? with Shane Thomas 33:33
  46. How business model innovation changed agtech in 2024 34:14
  47. Shortening the long game in livestock breeding, with Gerard Davis 38:41
  48. Rethinking who pays in irrigation agtech, with Jairo Trad 37:58
  49. The two faces of global ESG in ag, with Catherine Marriott 33:53
  50. Pitch breakdown: Fractal Ag, with Ben Gordon and Shane Thomas 41:04