Farmers

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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117: Talking Podcasting, Sustainable Ag, and World Domination with the Hosts of the Field Work Podcast

Zach Johnson and Mitchell Hora are the hosts of the Field Work podcast, a show for farmers, by farmers. Zach and Mitchell are both commercial row-crop farmers who are navigating all things “sustainable agriculture.” They join us to talk more about their backgrounds, journey to the show, and much more. Tune in!

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112: 7th-Generation Farmer Daniel Sell on Sharing Your Story on Social

Daniel Sell (AKA Farmer Dan) is a 7th-generation farmer from Texas and partner of Sell Family Farms. Dan joins us on the podcast to share more about his journey as a farmer and how has shared that story on social media.

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109: 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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106: How to Connect on Social Media with Ryan Valk AKA @CaliforniaFarmer

Ryan Valk is a 5th-generation farmer and operator at the Valk Ranch in Oakdale, California. His operation is focused on almond production and also includes a poultry farm.

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96: Transitioning to Regenerative on the Farm with Derek Axten

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Derek Axten is the owner of Axten Farms based in Saskatchewean, Canada. He joins us to discuss how his farm transitioned to regenerative practices, including what’s worked and challenges they’ve faced along the way. This is the perfect conclusion to our mini-series on regenerative agriculture. Tune in! Connect…

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93: Cousin Brad Back on the Podcast! Building an Ag Experience 2.0

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Cousin Brad (Brad Squires) comes back on the podcast to update us on his suburban family 10-acre farm that he started a few years ago (check out his first episode here). Brad shares some key business insights on what’s worked on the farm, including their go-to-market approach for…

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92: Scaling an Ecommerce Business in Ag with Chiles Wilson, Founder of Branch to Box

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Chiles Wilson is the founder and general manager of Branch to Box, a business-to-business ecommerce business that provides fresh fruit and snack delivery to company offices. This is Chiles’ second time on the podcast, because his first appearance was so good! This time we dig in deeper to…

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91: Launching a Direct-to-Consumer Farm Business through Branding with Dave Kohl, Founder of Joolies

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Dave Kohl is the founder of Joolies, a California based farm and CPG brand producing Medjool date products. Dave and his family founded the original date farm two decades ago and recently launched Joolies. He shares more about the company’s origin and how they strategically built the brand…

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