Farmers

149: Bringing Context to Regenerative Agriculture with Gabe Brown

Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on the regeneration of our resources. Gabe, along with his wife Shelly, and son Paul, own and operate Brown’s Ranch, a diversified 5,000 acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota.

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143: Decades of Farming – Still Innovating and Passing to the Next-Generation with Mike Machado

Mike Machado is a California farmer, veteran, and former State Senator. He continues to own and operate his family’s walnut farm in Linden, California. Mike joins us to share more about his decades-long journey in agriculture, lessons along the way, passing it to the next-generation, and continuing to innovate along the way. Mike also shares his perspective on leveraging environmental easements through California Farmland Trust as a way to protect his farmland from development.

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142: Acre Insights – Nuss Farms Goes Direct-to-Consumer, Driscoll’s/Plenty Partnership, and Tyler’s Take on Halloween

Tim and Tyler are back and feeling fiery. Tune in to learn why we think there should be more action and less complaining about how much farmers make for every dollar spent and why we’re trying to do something about it with our new squash boxes. We also share our thoughts on the Driscoll’s and Plenty partnership and what that indicates moving forward. Lastly, Tyler explains a hot take on Halloween decorations.

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137: Understanding Regenerative Agriculture with John Kempf

John Kempf is an entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host and teacher. He is passionate about the potential of well managed agriculture ecosystems to reverse ecological degradation. In addition to being a grower, John is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, Crop Health Labs, Ozadia, and the Regenerative Agriculture Academy. He hosts the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, where he interviews top growers and scientists about the principles and practice of implementing regenerative agriculture on a large scale.

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133: A Founder and Farmer – Nav Athwal on Building a Startup, Trends in Ag, & Making Investing Accessible with FarmTogether

Nav Athwal is the principle of TriNut Farms and is the former CEO of RealtyShares. Nav has over a decade of experience in real estate and technology as an engineer, real estate broker, real estate and land use attorney and real estate investor. At RealtyShares, he helped to deploy close to $1B in the capital for real estate transactions valued over $3B. Nav advises FarmTogether on overall strategy.

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132: Tim and Tyler Talk All Things Nuss Farms Regenerative Transition on the Field Work Podcast

Tune in for this BONUS episode! We are re-airing an interview we did on the Field Work podcast talking about The Modern Acre, Nuss Farms, and our transition to regenerative agriculture. Hope you all enjoy!

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129: Turning a Commodity Crop into a Consumer Brand with Meryl Kennedy, Founder & CEO of 4Sisters Rice

Meryl Kennedy is the Co-Founder and CEO of 4Sisters Rice, a rice farming operation and CPG brand based in Louisiana. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Meryl came back to the family farm to help continue the rice business. The Kennedy Family Agribusiness includes rice farming, drying, milling, and distribution, grain storage, grain marketing, land management, and real estate.

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123: A Founder and A Farmer – Converting US Dairy Farms into Oat Farms with Hälsa Foods Co-Founder Helena Lumme & Farmer Eric Ziehm

Helena Lumme is the President and Co-Founder of Hälsa Foods, a CPG company that produces oat milk products, focusing on clean ingredients, clean processing, and clean labels. Helena joins to share more about her journey founding the company and optimizing their marketing and supply chain.

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121: A Farmer Starts an AgTech Company with Iftach Birger, COO and Co-Founder of Fieldin

Iftach Birger is the COO and Co-Founder of Fieldin, a smart farming platform that helps growers manage and optimize pesticide applications, harvest activities and other critical field operations. Fieldin seamlessly connects tractors, machinery and in-field sensors to provide managers with actionable data that improves production, transparency and efficiency in the field.

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119: Selling Bolthouse Farms to Campbell’s and Buying it Back with Jeff Dunn, CEO of Bolthouse Farms

Jeff Dunn is the Chairman and CEO of Bolthouse Farms, a farm and consumer brand focused on carrot production and healthy beverages. Jeff was the CEO of Bolthouse for 6 years before helping sell the business to Campbell’s Soup Company in 2012. In a twist of events, Campbell’s sold the company back to Jeff this year.

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