Food – Page 6 – The Modern Acre

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

July 27, 2020

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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124: Building a Climate Friendly Food Brand and Marketplace with Julia Collins and Elaine Hsu of Planet FWD

June 23, 2020

Julia Collins is the Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, a food brand and marketplace focused on sourcing regeneratively sourced ingredients. Elaine Hsu, Planet FWD’s Head of Product, joins Julia to talk through how and why the company was started. We talk through the unique business models and challenges of scaling both a food brand and a marketplace. Tune in!

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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

June 16, 2020

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

May 26, 2020

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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109: Bringing Context to Regenerative Agriculture with Gabe Brown

March 17, 2020

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

November 19, 2019

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

November 11, 2019

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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82: Regenerative Ag, Direct-to-Consumer, Social Media & Food Labeling with Primal Pastures Founder and Pasturebird CEO, Paul Greive

September 10, 2019

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Paul Greive is the founder of Primal Pastures, a pastured livestock farm that delivers high-quality, fresh meat direct to consumer. Paul shares his amazing story of founding the company to feed his family healthy, real food and how it grew to become a successful company. He talks about…

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81: Founding a Successful Food Company in an Exploding Category with Caulipower CEO, Gail Becker

September 3, 2019

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Gail Becker is the founder and CEO of Caulipower. Gail left an incredibly successful career in PR and marketing to launch a food company focused on making comfort foods with healthier ingredients. Caulipower came on the food scene with their incredibly popular cauliflower pizza crust. Gail shares her…

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73: Industrial Hemp Farming and CBD Products with Paul Clift of Nikkal Farms

July 9, 2019

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Finally The Modern Acre podcast discusses hemp and CBD! The introduction of the new Farm Bill opened the floodgates to a new business opportunity. This week we talk with the founder of Nikkal Farms, Paul Clift, who talks all things hemp and CBD. He farms 7 acres of…

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