Entrepreneurship

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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359: The Produce Entrepreneur Steve Brazeel on Produce Boxes, Regen Ag, and Much More

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In 2000, Steve Brazeel founded SunTerra Produce, which has grown from a one-person produce brokerage firm into an industry-leading, full-service platform handling sales, marketing, farming, food safety, harvesting, storage, and distribution activities for specialty crop producers on over 5,000 acres throughout the US and Mexico. Born out of SunTerra‘s participation…

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358: Marketing Technology That Pays Farmers for Social Media with Scott Nelson, Founder of Make Hay

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Scott Nelson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Make Hay. Launched in partnership with Purdue University and High Alpha Innovation, Make Hay is a SaaS marketing platform that enables brands to produce authentic and trusted agricultural-related content at scale, all while amplifying and empowering the voices of America’s Agriculture Industry….

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351: David Friedberg on Joining Ohalo Genetics as CEO, Gene Editing Technology, and AgTech Trends

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Dave Friedberg is CEO, Chairman, and co-founder of Ohalo Genetics ( https://ohalo.com ), which is accelerating evolution to unlock nature’s potential. Dave excels at developing and deploying agricultural technologies that boost farmer productivity while reducing humanity’s land, water, and energy footprint. Dave is also CEO and founder of The Production…

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350: Choosing to be OEM-Agnostic with Tim Bucher, Founder and CEO of Agtonomy

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Help us celebrate our 350th episode by doing one (or all!) of the following: — Tim Bucher is the CEO and Founder of Agtonomy, a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. They partner with established equipment manufacturers to transform tractors and agriculture machines into autonomous and remote-controlled equipment that is…

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347: AgTech Diligence and How to Impress AgTech VC with Michael Lavin, Managing Partner at Germin8 Ventures

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Michael Lavin is the founder and managing partner of Germin8 Ventures, a purpose-driven venture capital firm that believes in the power of technology to fix the global food system. Founded in 2018 and backed by C-level executives, entrepreneurs and technologists across the food and agriculture industries, Germin8 is building a…

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345: Enabling Soil Carbon at Scale with Chris Tolles, CEO and Co-Founder of Yard Stick

Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Chris Tolles is the CEO and Co-Founder of Yard Stick. Yard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting…

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