Tyler Nuss

378: Founder of Tractor Beverage Travis Potter on His New Venture

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Travis Potter is the founder of Tractor Beverage, an innovative beverage company that offered the first and only Certified Organic, Non-GMO beverage solution for foodservice. Travis is now working on his next project – bringing Green Lightning to market. Green Lightning has developed on farm technology that produces liquid fertilizer…

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377: Scaling a Simple Idea into Successful AgTech with Tracey Wiedmeyer, CEO of Gripp

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Tracey Wiedmeyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gripp. From independent growers to national co-ops, Gripp is focused on providing the ultimate platform for connecting operations teams, keeping tabs on their equipment whereabouts, interactions, and bringing organization to their unique collection of operational knowledge & routines. — This episode is…

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376: ANNOUNCEMENT – Tyler (and Tim) Join Polaris Energy Services!

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Big announcement! Tyler and Tim are joining Polaris Energy Services as CEO and Head of Corporate Development, respectively. They break down all of the details of the move and share more about how Polaris enables California farmers to get paid and save more money. — This episode is presented by…

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375: The Business of Apples and the Cosmic Crisp Story with West Mathison, President & CEO of Stemilt

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Stemilt Growers is a family-owned and operated tree fruit growing, packing, and shipping company based in Wenatchee, Washington. The company was founded in 1964 by the Mathison’s, a multi-generational farming family who have grown fruit for more than a century. Today, Stemilt grows and markets fresh apples, pears, cherries, stone…

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374: Contrarian Thinking in AgTech & Robotics with Chris Laudando, Founder of L&A

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Chris is the Founder and President of L&A, his third start-up in the AgTech space. He previously founded Robodondo, which was acquired by Motivo Engineering in 2017, then built & rapidly grew Motivo’s B2B AgTech business into their primary vertical and led early market research for the technology that would…

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373: Growth Through Acquisition with Kyle McMahon, Founder & CEO of TractorZoom

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Kyle McMahon is the founder of Tractor Zoom and leads the company as CEO. Kyle is a 3rd generation entrepreneur and actively farms in southeast Iowa. Prior to starting Tractor Zoom, he was the Director of Acquisitions for Summit Agricultural Group where he led a team to buy and sell farmland…

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372: Focused Thinking in a Crowded Category with Guillermo Valenzuela, VP of Sales and Marketing at WiseConn

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Guillermo Valenzuela is the VP of Sales and Marketing at WiseConn. WiseConn specializes in precise irrigation solutions that drive sustainable farming practices. WiseConn empowers sustainable farming through precise irrigation solutions. They provide a user-friendly system for easy monitoring and control, offering farmers the most complete irrigation management system available. Established…

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371: Scaling a Cover Crop Seed Business with Joe Gardiner, Co-Founder of Covers & Co.

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Joe Gardiner is the Co-Founder of Covers & Co., a cover crop and forage seed supplier dedicated to helping farmers implement the Principles of Nature into their operations to improve soil resiliency & farm profitability. — This episode is presented by Corteva Agriscience. Learn more HERE. — Links Covers &…

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370: Acre Insights – Our Top 10 Food & Ag Companies

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Disclaimer: This is not investment advice! This week, we change up the format a bit. Tim and Tyler each choose 5 companies in food and ag that they believe have strong upside. Let us know what you think of the picks! Note: this is for fun and not an exhaustive…

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369: Manulife’s COO of Farmland Services on Regen Ag, the Farm Economy, and Centralized Services

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Kevin Wright is the COO of Farmland Services at Manulife. Manulife Investment Management manages a diversified global portfolio of timberland and agriculture with forests covering 5.5 million acres across the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and New Zealand, and farms covering nearly 400,000 acres of prime farmland across the…

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