Entrepreneurship

380: Buying (Then Building) A Small Business in Ag with Cody Agee

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Cody Agee is the Owner & CEO at Sierra Dairy Laboratory. After getting his degree in finance and a career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan, Cody decided to search for a business to buy. He ended up acquiring Sierra Dairy Laboratory and joins the podcast to tell the whole…

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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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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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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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Founder Mode, Latest Huberman Takeaways, and FBN & ADM Joint Venture

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts This is a special bonus episode! We are airing an episode from The Modern Acre Co-op, our membership community. Every week, Tim and Tyler share their “pick of the week” and discuss a news event from the week. Enjoy the sneak peak and if you enjoy this type of content,…

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364: From Blue River Technology to Founding Bonsai Robotics with Tyler Niday

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Tyler Niday is the Founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics. Bonsai provides vision-based automation and autonomous solutions to combat growers’ biggest challenge: the labor crisis. Bonsai partners with existing manufacturers enabling greater performance, efficiency, and insight than ever before. Prior to founding Bonsai, Tyler held various positions at Blue River…

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363: Wife-Inspired Business Ideas, Making Ag More Fun, and Defining Regenerative

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts A new edition of Acre Insights is here! We have a loaded docket today with wife-inspired business ideas for ag, how to make ag more fun, and defining regenerative in California. — This episode is presented by American AgCredit. Learn more HERE. Check out Matt Woolf’s episode on the California…

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361: Achieving Hyper-Focus as an AgTech Startup with Lumo’s Founder & CEO, Devon Wright

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Devon Wright is the Founder and CEO of Lumo, a hardware and software smart valve agtech startup. Lumo’s mission is to massively improve fresh water efficiency and food security. They do this helping farmers optimize irrigation so they can continue to meet our growing food demand with an increasingly volatile…

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