A Business Model for Novel Ingredients with Jake Berber At Prefer
For years the food tech space has been rife with companies eager to replace familiar standbys– from protein to sweeteners to colorings– with cheaper, more healthful, or more climate friendly alternati...
19 Mars 202535min
Solving for Adoption and Channel in AgTech… So what? with Shane Thomas
There are a few topics in agtech (and in the tech startup world more broadly) that are truly perennial– problems that must be solved again and again in new and innovative ways as markets, customers, a...
5 Mars 202536min
From Demo Farms to Adoption with Wine Australia
When your organization is tasked with the job of getting growers to adopt new technology, there are a few tried, and frankly, not-so-true options to choose from. The world is lightly littered with var...
19 Feb 202538min
Killing Weeds Without Poison with Liam Hescock at Azaneo
Controlling weeds on farms is a sticky, two part challenge. First, you’ve got to identify the weeds, as distinct from the plants you want to grow. Then, you’ve got to destroy the undesirables and keep...
5 Feb 202536min
2025 in AgTech… So what? with Shane Thomas
As the new year gets underway, we’ve been thinking about the likely ups and downs ahead for the agtech world. We’ve been searching for insights in the recent announcement that FMC’s corporate venture ...
22 Jan 202533min
How Business Model Innovation Changed AgTech in 2024
There’s nothing like the end of another year to have us reflecting on the recent successes in the world of agtech, and the many challenges still left to overcome. One thing that has continued to stand...
11 Dec 202434min
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 Nov 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 Nov 202437min
