Best Agrifoodtech Podcasts (2025)

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

11d 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

25d 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

2M 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

3M 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

3M 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

4M 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

4M 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

5M 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

5M 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

5M 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

6M 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

6M 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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How Syngenta is thinking about AI with Feroz Sheikh 40:44

7M ago40:44

40:44

Not too long ago, we co-published a paper on the future of AI called “Yield Maps Killed AgTech Software, Can AI Save It?” and got a ton of great responses from across the industry. One such responder wrote in from his seat at the Syngenta Group, where he’s helped the organization go from zero to 250 million acres digitally served in just five years…

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AgTech News …So What? July 2024 with Shane Thomas 38:25

7M ago38:25

38:25

This week, we’re breaking down the freshest announcements from the agribusiness, agtech, and broader policy and tech worlds to share insights and ask “so what?” Sarah and Matthew are joined this week by Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights. For more information and resources, visit our website. The information in this post is not investment…

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Evaluating Biologicals Businesses with Joel Lipsitch 40:04

8M ago40:04

40:04

For better or worse, the biologicals space is still in the process of repairing a reputation that was marred by years of over-promising and under-delivering. Yet big advances have been made in recent years, helping improve agricultural productivity while reducing the industry’s dependence on chemical pesticides and fertilizers. But discerning betwe…

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Rebooting AgTech Software with AI, with Rhishi Pethe 33:11

8M ago33:11

33:11

We are certainly not alone in our interest in how artificial intelligence will shape agriculture in the coming years. We’ve been learning out loud about both the tech that might emerge, but also about how AI might shape existing tools, especially agtech software. In our recent report, Yield Maps Killed AgTech Software, Can AI Fix It?, we put forwar…

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How green is sustainable aviation fuel? With Cris Handel 33:33

9M ago33:33

33:33

As the US works to hammer out requirements for sustainable aviation fuel tax credits, the potential for the airline industry to open a huge new market for oil seeds has watchers in the sustainability space wondering what’s next. Will the opportunity for agtech to provide producers with the tools they need to meet production requirements and prove s…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Agrifoodtech Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Agtech - So What?

Sarah Nolet

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End of Agriculture

Sarah Mock & Connie Bowen

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Future Food

Louisa Burwood-Taylor

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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

1
Ag’s Scifi (and Non-Fiction) Future: Horizon Scanning… so what? with Shane Thomas 36:23

1
Citrus Moves North with Farmer and Orangepreneur Lindy Savelle 35:23

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How Syngenta is thinking about AI with Feroz Sheikh 40:44

1
AgTech News …So What? July 2024 with Shane Thomas 38:25

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Evaluating Biologicals Businesses with Joel Lipsitch 40:04

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Rebooting AgTech Software with AI, with Rhishi Pethe 33:11

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How green is sustainable aviation fuel? With Cris Handel 33:33

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