Listen on iTunes HERE Listen on Google Play HERE Jack Zech, a fourth-generation farmer, talks about coming back to his family farm after several years moving up the ladder of a large clothing company. We discuss what he learned through managing retail stores and overall strategy for Uniclo and what motivated him to leave corporate…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Margaux Alvarez, a 5x CrossFit Games athlete, shares how she has built a successful wine business around her personal brand. We cover everything from how she grows her own grapes to the winemaking process to all of the regulatory challenges of the alcohol industry. She has scaled her…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else In this episode, we dive into the beverage business, SAP!, with co-founders Chas Smith and Nikita Salmon. SAP! offers sparkling water that’s flavored with maple and birch sap, straight from Chas and Nikita’s home state of Vermont. We discuss their upbringing in Vermont and how the maple industry…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else In episode 6, we talk with Alli Cecchini, Executive Director of First Generation Farmers, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and training of the next-generation of organic farmers. Alli grew up on her family’s asparagus farm and eventually came back and convinced her parents to let her…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else In this episode, we talk about the importance of education in inspiring the next-generation of farmers and ag entrepreneurs with the president of the California FFA, Luke O’Leary. Luke talks about his experience with FFA in high school, the transition to college in Texas, then back to California…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else On episode 4, we have a hugely valuable conversation with Jesse Vollmar, Founder and CEO of the farm management technology company, FarmLogs. Jesse discusses his passion for technology and software development, and how he brought that passion back to the agriculture community. We talk through the difference between…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else On this episode, we talk with Austin Maness, COO of Harvest Returns, a crowdfunding platform for ag investing. Austin talks about learning about agriculture and farming from his grandparents, his extensive military service, and helping start an innovative ag business. Harvest Returns provides farmers with more flexible financing…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else On this episode, we interview John Stenderup, Strategic Sales Executive for C.H. Robinson. We discuss what growing up on a farm was like, studying international ag business at Cal Poly, and transitioning to supply chain management, logistics, and global trade for fresh produce. We also get into what…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else We made it! Episode 1 of The Modern Acre. On the first episode of the podcast, we share more of the vision of The Modern Acre and who we are. We’ll let our voiceover guy take it from here… “The Modern Acre – Agriculture for the Next-Generation Farm…
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