Adam Litle is the CEO of Sound Agriculture, a plant development company that helps producers grow more efficiently and enhance food taste, nutrition and sustainability. Adam was formerly part of the founding management team at Granular, a farm management software platform startup that was acquired by Dupont for $300M in 2017.
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Paul Gambill is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nori, a carbon removal marketplace on a mission to reverse climate change by removing enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to lower the overall concentration of CO2 below 300 parts per million. Paul joins us to talk about how they are leveraging blockchain technology to build the business and develop their own cryptocurrency.
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Rhonda Bassett-Spiers is the President and CEO of iTradeNetwork, the leader in perishables supply chain management for 20 years with a powerful network of over 8,000 food and beverage trading partners. Its end-to-end supply chain software suite simplifies the complexities that occur at all waypoints of the food and perishables supply chain. Rhonda has 25+ years of Silicon Valley technology company experience in financial services and supply chain solutions. She joins us to talk through how she has scaled the company and how they have evolved the business through COVID as partners are more concerned than ever with supply chain resiliency. Tune in!
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Alexander Reichert is the co-founder and CEO of AgVend, a digital commerce platform in the agriculture industry. AgVend’s tools constructively power the omnichannel experiences for ag retailers, distributors, and manufacturers. Alexander joins us the podcast to talk about founding AgVend, evolving the business model, disruption vs. innovation, and much more. Tune in!
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Jason Kosareff is a Farmland Asset Manager at FarmTogether and joins us this week to dive deep on farmland operations. Jason has an extensive background in farming and agriculture, including in retail, working as a PCA, farm management, and asset manager for investment groups. We discuss more about management, evolving ag trends, row crops vs. permanent crops, and much more. Tune in!
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We are finally back with another edition of Acre Insights. This episode we discuss if regenerative agriculture is losing it’s buzz as well as some of the negative press it has received. Plus, we cover cryptocurrency in ag, Bowery’s latest funding round (and some concerns with indoor farming), and the latest happenings with Nuss Farms. Tune in!
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Jeff Dunn is the Chairman and CEO of Bolthouse Farms, a farm and consumer brand focused on carrot production and healthy beverages. Jeff was the CEO of Bolthouse for 6 years before helping sell the business to Campbell’s Soup Company in 2012. In a twist of events, Campbell’s sold the company back to Jeff last year.
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Michael Bosworth is the CEO of Next Generation Foods which was established in 2006 to market and distribute locally grown foods in Northern California. Next Generation Foods’ seeks to shorten the supply chain, increase traceability and transparency of the local food system and promote foods grown by local family farms.
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Michael Guirguis is the co-founder and CEO of Seso Labor, a labor marketplace for agriculture that addresses the labor problem by connecting U.S farms with qualified seasonal workers via America’s agricultural guest worker program (H-2A). Michael joins us to dive into his background in labor policy, founded and scaling the company, and some meaningful insights into the complex nature of agricultural labor. Must listen!
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Stacy Kimmel, PhD, is the Vice President of R&D at AeroFarms, an indoor farming company and Certified B Corporation that uses the latest breakthroughs in vertical farming, artificial intelligence and plant biology to grow and distribute fresh produce locally and globally.
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