Ep63 Evan Fraser on 3 barriers to agtech adoption and impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture
Evan Fraser is a food systems innovation expert, the Director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph in Canada, and the Founder of Feeding9Billion.Though he didn't grow up on a farm,...
25 Maalis 202028min
Ep 62 Allison Kopf on indoor ag business models and women in agtech (rebroadcast)
We hear all the time that we need to "feed the world" and that "agtech can help" But what role will indoor farming play? How do these systems work, what can they grow, and how do they make money?Today...
18 Maalis 202033min
BONUS Episode: Live panel from evokeAG 2020 featuring global agrifood tech experts
evokeAG, Asia Pacific's largest agrifood tech event, brought together 1300 innovators earlier in February this year in Melbourne, Australia. The jam-packed event featured international experts, innova...
11 Maalis 202043min
Ep61 Alisdair Tulloch on the first-mover advantages of going carbon neutral
Agriculture is often vilified for its environmental impact. But what if agriculture could be carbon neutral? Is that even possible? And what would it cost?Alisdair Tulloch, a fourth generation grape g...
4 Maalis 202034min
Ep 60 Mark Ferguson on science, sheep, and the tech-enabled future of genetics
Mark “Ferg” Ferguson is a sheep geneticist who’s paying attention to how both consumer demands and emerging technologies are impacting growers. Drawing on his experience with dozens of clients around ...
19 Helmi 202034min
Ep 59: Mic Fels on startup buzzwords and where the real value is in agtech
Mic Fels is someone I’ve wanted to speak with ever since I read an article he wrote about how his agtech is really making him money.Mic not only crops about 11,000 hectares in Esperance, Western Austr...
5 Helmi 202039min
Ep 58: Fiona Aveyard on drought, dust storms, and value-adding
Agtech is about more than the technologies. It's about new business models in agriculture,and of course the innovators driving changes along the value chain. Today’s guest, Fiona Aveyard, a 5th genera...
22 Tammi 202041min
Ep 57 Fee Turner and Lee Coleman on being farmers and agtech founders
Fee Turner (Bitwise Agronomy) and Lee Coleman (FarmSimple) are both farmers as well as founders of agtech startups. They, along with six other farmer-led businesses, have been selected into the Farmer...
7 Tammi 202022min
