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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Ewan Lamont is SVP, Head of Sustainability Solutions at Indigo. At Indigo, Ewan manages the Sustainability business unit which enables farmers to monetize practice changes they make on their farms. Working with local agribusinesses and downstream partners, Indigo offers the largest and longest-running Scope 3 and carbon farming programs, founded…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Carter Williams is the CEO and Managing Director at iSelect Fund, who invests at the convergence of agtech and human health. Carter has spent his entire career working on innovation. First as a young engineer at McDonnell Douglas, next in his leadership roles at Boeing managing R&D and starting Boeing Ventures. Later…
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Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Jack Richardson is kicking off a new and improved version of The Modern Acre newsletter. After starting his career in venture banking, Jack has spent the last five years in AgTech, first at a food waste startup and now in precision technology at an Ag OEM. He’s spent most of…
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