Listen 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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