AGI SureTrack CoffeeTalk

This week, host, Laura Handke and producer, Brian Folkers are on-site at the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety with executive director, Dan Neenan and Nationwide Insurance’s Paul Stevenson and Jade Rodemeyer. The crew will be talking about the importance of grain bin safety 24/7-365, and the training and extraction process that has saved entrapped farmers across the Midwest.

While on-site, Brian will also experience a controlled grain entrapment and extraction.

We say it every time we get the chance, take the time to join this webinar, or other grain bin safety educational events throughout the year. Stay safe.

Each year, FFA chapters around the country celebrate National FFA Week. It’s a time to share what FFA is and the impact it has on members every day! To do that, this week, we’re sitting down with National FFA Organization’s Director of Marketing and Communications, to learn more about the mission of FFA and how the organization is working to reach both urban and rural youth, alike.

On this week’s CoffeeTalk, we’re sitting down with Welker Family Farms’ Nick Welker, to discuss sharing the farming story on YouTube and becoming a BinManager customer – from install to operations integration. Sara Bailey, AGI SureTrack customer service representative, will also be joining the conversation with Nick, to talk about the onboarding process and troubleshooting from both CSR and customer perspectives.

We’ll wrap the episode by learning about Welker Farms’ involvement in Grain Bin Safety Week. It will be a fun one!

Backed by Yara, the Agoro Carbon Alliance is taking action on a global scale to reverse the effects of climate change. This week, we’re joined by Agoro Carbon Alliance Agronomist, Matt Rellaford, to learn how!

If you’ve had questions about how carbon markets are working, this will be a conversation you won’t want to miss. We’ll be talking contracts, data, measurement, permanence and additionality. Grab your coffee and your questions and join us!

In this week’s CoffeeTalk, we’re sitting down with Katie Pawlosky, Communications Director for The National Bio and Agro-defense facility (NBAF), a new 574,000 square foot biocontainment laboratory facility that will provide state-of-the-art infrastructure for developing vaccines, performing diagnostics, and developing countermeasures against large animal foreign animal diseases and zoonotic diseases. We're also joined by Stephanie Jacques.  

We’ll be having a one-of-a-kind conversation about a facility that is the first-of-its-kind. Don’t miss it! Grab your coffee and join us!  

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When a purpose is driven by helping farmers and dogs, it’s hard not to get behind! This week we’re visiting with Jackie Allenbrand, founder of P.H.A.R.M. Dog USA, about the work that she and her team does in rescuing dogs who, in turn, rescue the quality of life for disabled farmers.  

We’ll be exploring a dog’s role in helping farmers and farm family members with physical, cognitive and illness-related disabilities.  

For more information, visit http://www.agisuretrack.com

In this week’s AGI SureTrack CoffeeTalk, we sat down with regenerative agriculture educator and connector, Jessica Gnad to talk about the evolution of soil health, sustainability and building farmer and rancher engagement in regenerative farming practices. As the Executive Director for Great Plains Regeneration, content creator and connector for the regenerative agriculture Australia group, Regen Farming News and Top 10 Emerging Leaders in Food and Agriculture recipient, Jess has her finger on the pulse of the regenerative agriculture movement, the companies fueling it and the farmers implementing it.

CoffeeTalk is kicking off 2022 with a conversation about a new opportunity for many farmers across the U.S.! Melissa Nelson, crop scientist, owner of Performance Crop Research and co-owner of South Bend Industrial Hemp. In this episode we’re talking entrepreneurship, diversifying the farm for profitability and breaking down the stigma barriers for a new crop opportunity!

Rounding out 2021 and our Food Security series, Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Plant Science Center will join the conversation to discuss how the organization is standing up a new “center of excellence” in an effort to reduce the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer by 12%...the equivalent of removing 10 million cars from the road.

The announcement couldn’t come at a more pivotal time as the agriculture industry faces shortages of several macronutrient fertilizers. Join us for a discussion around the importance of fertilizer alternatives and the contribution they make in the reduction of the global food security crisis.

On this week’s CoffeeTalk, we’re sitting down with JJ Jones, executive director for the National Institute of Animal Agriculture.

J.J. will share his team’s research on the investments being made in livestock technology, what those investments will mean for affordable protein and what a decline in livestock production could mean for the U.S. corn and soybean commodity sectors.

Join us for an insightful conversation around the important role investment and research and the resulting technologies play in providing affordable protein around the world.