Best Agrifoodtech Podcasts (2025)

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Merging AgTech Startups to Multiply Value and Impact with Ron Hannam 33:27

11d ago33:27

33:27

Between COVID-19, Avian Influenza, and African Swine Fever, ordinary consumers are more aware than ever of the risks of infectious diseases on animal and human health, and to society at large. Ag technology that helps farmers better prevent the spread of diseases is more relevant than ever, and that was a big part of the motivation for today’s gues…

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Paying for Ag R&D When Consumers Won’t with Brooke Sauer of Boolah 36:40

25d ago36:40

36:40

For commercial farming operations, determining whether or not new tools, technology, and practices work can be a big undertaking. From install and setup costs to helping the team involved climb the learning curve for effective use, even when technologies lead to big benefits, it can be tough to get the ball rolling. One farm that we’ve learned abou…

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A Business Model for Novel Ingredients with Jake Berber At Prefer 35:56

1M ago35:56

35:56

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 alternatives. There have certainly been a few successes, but there have also been some big and spectacular failures. Whether we’re emerging from the dust of th…

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Solving for Adoption and Channel in AgTech… So what? with Shane Thomas 36:10

2M ago36:10

36:10

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, and businesses evolve. Adoption is one of those challenges, and go-to-market strategies are another. We’ve been thinking about the challenge of adoptio…

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From Demo Farms to Adoption with Wine Australia 38:31

2M ago38:31

38:31

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 various flavors of demonstration farms– properties where technologies can be piloted, field days can be hosted, and farmers can be converted from tech sk…

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Killing Weeds Without Poison with Liam Hescock at Azaneo 36:27

3M ago36:27

36:27

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 the rest. For today’s farmers, these two tasks can seem straightforward, but to do them at the scale required in modern agriculture– not so much. Ide…

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2025 in AgTech… So what? with Shane Thomas 33:33

3M ago33:33

33:33

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 capital division is shutting its doors, and thinking about what a trend in CVC pullbacks might mean for the lay of the land in agtech. We’ve also been…

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How Business Model Innovation Changed AgTech in 2024 34:14

5M ago34:14

34:14

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 out to us in 2024 is the vital need for more business model innovation. There’s so much amazing technology that already exists, but for one reason or…

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Shortening the Long Game in Livestock Breeding with Gerard Davis from Nbryo 38:41

5M ago38:41

38:41

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 for tens of thousands of years. The challenge of this work is, of course, the timeline. Groundbreaking and world-changing advances are possible, but we …

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Rethinking Who Pays in Irrigation AgTech with Jairo Trad 37:58

6M ago37:58

37:58

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 report about it, The agtech adoption dilemma: Irrigation), and many others have also spotted the challenges in this space. But when Jairo Trad and his te…

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The Two Faces of Global ESG in Ag with Catherine Marriott 33:53

6M ago33:53

33:53

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, and even farmers are talking about it. And yet for many of us, the questions of what exactly ESG is, what pursuing these goals means, and how soon ac…

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Fractal Ag Pitch Breakdown with Ben Gordon and Shane Thomas 41:04

6M ago41:04

41:04

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 farmers looking to expand, given farmland comes up for sale so infrequently and is so valuable. In the space between these two needs is where Fractal…

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Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Supply Chains with Calla Rose Ostrander 32:27

7M ago32:27

32:27

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 actively help renew resources has captured imaginations within the sector and without, giving life to events like the Regenerative Food Systems Investme…

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When Kansas Drys up… in 2050 with Dan Northrup 31:53

7M ago31:53

31:53

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 particularly vulnerable part of the gigantic Ogallala aquifer, which according to the latest science, may well be fully depleted by 2050. Western Kansas isn’…

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Unconventional Farmer-led Finance Strategies with Quint Pottinger 39:31

8M ago39:31

39:31

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 reputation for convention and conservatism, challenging times call for creative measures, and farmers are nothing if not creative. To learn more about i…

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Ag’s Scifi (and Non-Fiction) Future: Horizon Scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas 36:23

8M ago36:23

36:23

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 disclosures– to the less obvious, like the ubiquity of remotely sensed data and geoengineering. All of these forces, and others like them, are not onl…

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Citrus Moves North with Farmer and Orangepreneur Lindy Savelle 35:23

9M ago35:23

35:23

When people talk about the impacts of climate change on agriculture, they usually use the future tense. The reality, though, is that climate change already is, and has been, changing global conditions enough to cause meaningful shifts in agricultural production. Case in point, where Florida was once known both nationally and globally as the US’s ci…

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Agrifoodtech Podcasts

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End of Agriculture

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Future Food

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Merging AgTech Startups to Multiply Value and Impact with Ron Hannam 33:27

1
Paying for Ag R&D When Consumers Won’t with Brooke Sauer of Boolah 36:40

1
A Business Model for Novel Ingredients with Jake Berber At Prefer 35:56

1
Solving for Adoption and Channel in AgTech… So what? with Shane Thomas 36:10

1
From Demo Farms to Adoption with Wine Australia 38:31

1
Killing Weeds Without Poison with Liam Hescock at Azaneo 36:27

1
2025 in AgTech… So what? with Shane Thomas 33:33

1
How Business Model Innovation Changed AgTech in 2024 34:14

1
Shortening the Long Game in Livestock Breeding with Gerard Davis from Nbryo 38:41

1
Rethinking Who Pays in Irrigation AgTech with Jairo Trad 37:58

1
The Two Faces of Global ESG in Ag with Catherine Marriott 33:53

1
Fractal Ag Pitch Breakdown with Ben Gordon and Shane Thomas 41:04

1
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Supply Chains with Calla Rose Ostrander 32:27

1
When Kansas Drys up… in 2050 with Dan Northrup 31:53

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Unconventional Farmer-led Finance Strategies with Quint Pottinger 39:31

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Ag’s Scifi (and Non-Fiction) Future: Horizon Scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas 36:23

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Citrus Moves North with Farmer and Orangepreneur Lindy Savelle 35:23