A.J. Ferrari is a wine expert with decades of experience across the wine industry ranging from working for wine spectator magazine and working on a vineyard in New Zealand, to becoming a wine sommelier and teaching a wine class at Stanford University. This episode builds off of a previous conversation about wines and climate change with Peter Mondavi (episode 2).

This week in agriculture adapts: 

- Shifting climate zones are leaving many age-old wineries in the dust and opening up the door for newly suitable lands

- Why wineries that weren't burned in the Napa wildfires were still effected

- Can vineyards developed without irrigation actually be better suited to combat drought?

Better Cotton Initiative (bettercotton.org) is the largest cotton sustainability program in the world: 2 million farmers across 21 countries accounting for 20% of the world's cotton. Scott sits down with us to explain how BCI is revolutionizing the global cotton supply chain.

This week in Agriculture Adapts:

• The importance of profitability; $1 could determine a child's future
• How BCI makes cotton farming safer, more sustainable, and more profitable
• Data is the key to climate resilience

Ashby Monk is an institutional investment Guru, helping the likes of multi-billion/trillion dollar pension funds and sovereign wealth funds rethink the way they view risk. In this episode we dive deep into the wonky side of finance and climate risk.

This week in Agriculture Adapts:

• Climate change is a non-diversifiable risk
• The engines of capitalism must evolve if they are to thrive in a changing world
• How and why we need to translate long term risk into a current concern 

Gary is a 3rd generation CEO of one of the largest strawberry operations in the south east U.S. He walks us through how the strawberry world in the south east has changed over the past century and how Wish Farms continues to evolve to keep up with a changing world.

This week on Agriculture Adapts:

- International strawberry market dynamics

- How climate has changed strawberry management strategies

- Are hurricanes a major concern for the Florida strawberry world?

- Solving the labor shortage

Peter Mondavi is a 3rd generation wine maker and the co-proprietor of the Charles Krug Winery, the oldest commercial winery in Napa Valley. Napa Valley has seen decades of amazing wine production but a changing climate has created new hurdles for the industry. We sit down with Peter to understand what issues sit top of mind for the industry and how vintners (wine makers) are managing these new risks.

This week on Agriculture Adapts:

• Will Napa be able to grow its favorite wine, Cabernet Sauvignon, as the climate heats up in the region?
• In 2017 wildfires tore through Northern California wine country -- how was the industry affected and how are they adapting?
• Can drought actually be good for wine grapes?

Teddy Bekele is the CTO of Land O'Lakes, one of the largest agriculture co-operatives in the U.S. Teddy has lead the co-op's shift to a tech-oriented company, first joining as a senior IT director and quickly climbing the ranks to CTO where he now leads the company-wide data and sustainability initiatives.

In this episode, we learn about Land O'lakes view on ag-tech and innovation, the role data will play in the future of sustainability, and how climate resilient farmers deserve better financing and insurance rates.

climate resilience: the ability to thrive through various extreme and unpredictable long term weather events 

This week on Agriculture Adapts:

• Land O'Lakes views on technology's role in the agriculture sector: augmenting the farmers' expertise and harnessing their experience rather than trying to replace it. 
• How investment and innovation happens at the farm level despite razer thin margins
• The process of derisking technology before rolling it out to farmers-- no room for error when you're betting the farm every year
• Land O'lakes new data and sustainability platform, Truterra. Successes, hurdles, and new opportunities.
• How sustainability and climate resilience tie together