The Modern Acre

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com Maria Cho is the CEO of Triplebar, a synthetic biology company based in California. It is a venture-backed startup with funding from The Production Board, a VC firm with a focus on sustainability, especially in the food and agriculture industries. Triplebar Bio works at the interface of biological and engineering sciences to engineer and discover microbes that produce a wide range of molecules across the food, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries. Maria is a veteran business leader with more than 15 years building industry-leading teams and a biologics expert with unique range of commercial experience, from therapeutics to cosmetics to CRO/CMO. Connect with Triplebar Website | LinkedIn

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com This month, Tim and Tyler talk with Ariel about her latest Topsoil edition - "Where the crops go: A framework for demand in agriculture." Ariel Patton is the creator of Topsoil, a newsletter bringing you monthly frameworks to help make sense of agriculture, at just the right depth. Ariel has focused her career on driving digital transformation of agriculture to help farmers manage their businesses more profitably and sustainably at Monsanto, Granular, Corteva and currently, Mineral. Connect with Ariel Topsoil Newsletter | LinkedIn Links Podcast with Justin Mares

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com Check out Tim's LinkedIn post on our experience at Nuss Farms with regenerative agriculture. Stephen Hohenrieder is the Founder and CEO of Grounded Capital which invests long-term private financial capital with a systems-based, holistic approach to achieve Impact across Five Areas of Focus: Places, Energy, People, Food and Nature. Stephen leads day-to-day operations and portfolio strategy for the firm, he is also focused on certain private equity and private credit holdings where he contributes his experience investing in regenerative food and agriculture over the past decade. Stephen has spent the past twenty-five years investing on behalf of family offices and their related entities, serving as the CEO and CIO of individual family offices, building a registered investment advisor to serve multiple families, as a general partner of two private equity firms, and through his work at Grounded Capital. Connect with Grounded Capital Website | LinkedIn

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com Tim and Tyler dial up the ag takes on this edition of Acre Insights, including the state of indoor farming, the latest greenwashing by CPG's, and Kiss the Ground's new film on regenerative ag. But first, Tyler shares the details of going viral on his family's vacation to Europe. Links Europe Vlogs

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com Derek Azevedo is the Executive Vice President of Bowles Farming Company. Prior to joining Bowles in early 2017, Derek spent 12 years working with farmers throughout the Central Valley as a business development representative for the world’s largest tomato processor. Bowles Farming Company is a family owned and operated farming operation located near Los Banos in the Central Valley of California. The farm is currently being managed by the 6th generation of the Bowles & Lawrence families. They produce primarily annual crops with a focus on tomatoes (processing and fresh), melons, Extra Long Staple cotton, alfalfa and much more. Connect with Bowles Website | LinkedIn

This episode is presented by DPH Biologicals. Learn more at DPHBio.com In April 2021, Mick Messman was named President and Chief Executive Officer of DPH Biologicals, bringing twenty-five years of experience in crop protection, seed treatment and biologicals after serving in commercial leadership roles at two leading multi-nationals and emerging agtech companies. Today, Mick is leading DPH Biologicals to deliver more value to partners and growers through collaborative relationships and access to its trusted biological platform.​ DPH Biologicals aims to become the industry’s most trusted biologicals provider, based one of the industry’s most trusted technologies that has delivered unmatched results to improve soil structure while increasing nutrient uptake across a wide range of crops, soil types and growing environments. For more than three decades, we have delivered value to the row and specialty crop, turf and ornamental markets. With unique applicability across broad soil types, our technology platform, TerraTrove™, built on SP-1 Classic™ formulation, has been refined across millions of acres to make it the most complete biofertility solution available. We are committed to building upon the DPH Biologicals heritage to help meet the needs of a growing population and address global concerns of climate change, food security and clean water. Connect with DPH Website | LinkedIn | CropLife Article

Peter Martin is an Advisory Partner at Pinion and Matt Powell is a Global Innovation Leader at Pinion, CEO of Robot Accounts, and Co-Founder of AgWorld. Pinion, formerly named KCoe Isom, is a ‘U.S. Top 100’ accounting firm and global leader in food and agriculture consulting. With roots dating back to 1932, the firm has expanded upon traditional accounting services to deliver increased value and growth for clients through comprehensive policy-to-plate strategies, and specialized advisory in the areas of sustainability, government affairs, farm programs, land management, financial management, succession planning, and business strategy. Robot Accounts provides AI powered automated accounting and financial data standardization, workflow and integration. Connect with Pinion Website | LinkedIn

This month, the Modern Acre Co-op got together to discuss all things AI in agriculture. It was a roundtable discussion that was wide-ranging and including a number of different use-cases for how people are thinking about and leveraging AI in their businesses. Participants: Chris Bunio of Theory Mesh, Chase Dwelle, Kenny Lee of Aigen, Erik Wolfe of Sound Agriculture, Jim Cupples of All the Farms, Dustin Brunn of Dunn Dairy, and Ria Xi of CropSafe Connect with the Co-op Details | Apply

Dr. Michael Gilbert is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Semios, the leading precision farming loT platform for tree fruits, nuts, and grapes. Michael is a natural product synthetic chemist with a PhD from University of British Columbia and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna. He has 25 years of experience in agtech and biotech R&D and production. In 2009, Michael founded Semios to meet the growing demand for data-driven sustainable and traceable food production. Michael joins us to share his story of founding the company and how the have strategically scaled through acquisitions, distribution, technology, and business model. Tune in! Connect with Semios Website | Twitter

Kit Barron is the Head of Data Science & Analytics at Farmer's Business Network, an independent agricultural tech and commerce platform and farmer-to-farmer network that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms and work toward a sustainable future. FBN is an advocate for family farmers and ranchers, and does whatever it takes to help farmers become more prosperous - whether it's through data science-driven agronomic insights about their fields, providing farm inputs through its e-commerce store, helping farmers sell their crop more intelligently and independently, or providing them with health or crop insurance. FBN arms farmers with the tools they need to make the best decisions for their business, their families and the planet. Kit joins the pod to provide some updates on FBN and share more about their recent launch of Norm, their AI agronomy advisor. Tune in! Connect with FBN Website | Norm