Shortening the Long Game in Livestock Breeding with Gerard Davis from Nbryo
The history of agriculture is a history of selective breeding. Whether it’s plants or animals, humans have been choosing desirable traits and making sure those traits make it to the next generation fo...
27 Marras 202438min
Rethinking Who Pays in Irrigation AgTech with Jairo Trad
Despite its importance to both agricultural and environmental outcomes, irrigation has not been a terribly successful subsection of agtech. We have our theories about why that is (we wrote a whole rep...
13 Marras 202437min
The Two Faces of Global ESG in Ag with Catherine Marriott
Depending on where you sit, the supremacy of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) action seems inevitable. Corporates are talking about. Investors are talking about it. Governments, regulators,...
30 Loka 202433min
Fractal Ag Pitch Breakdown with Ben Gordon and Shane Thomas
Farmland has long been a popular asset among investors for its steady appreciation and resistance to economic downturns. At the same time, farmland is also a challenging asset at times, especially for...
16 Loka 202441min
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Supply Chains with Calla Rose Ostrander
When it comes to leveraging capital to fund climate action in agriculture, few ideas get as much play as regenerative agriculture. The idea of production that can not only be sustained but that can ac...
2 Loka 202432min
When Kansas Drys up… in 2050 with Dan Northrup
There are many parts of the US that are at risk for severe drought and heat in the next 30 years due to climate change. But then there’s Kansas, where some growers pull irrigation water from a particu...
18 Syys 202431min
Unconventional Farmer-led Finance Strategies with Quint Pottinger
Despite challenging conditions in financial markets the world over, ambitious entrepreneurs find a way. There are few sectors where that is more true than in agriculture, and despite the industry’s re...
4 Syys 202439min
Ag’s Scifi (and Non-Fiction) Future: Horizon Scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas
We’ve been thinking (and talking, and writing) a lot lately about the forces that are shaping the future of agriculture. There are the more obvious ones– artificial intelligence and mandatory climate ...
21 Elo 202436min
