Croptastic the InnerPlant Podcast

Ariel Patton and Gary Schaefer join the podcast to look back at the 2026 disease season, summarize the 2026 CropVoice End-of-Season Report, and look ahead to 2027.

Check out the 2026 End-of-Season Report here: https://innerplant.com/eos-2026/

Guest host Zach Johnson chats with Hwy 75 Chem's Dash Cameron and 5th-generation Nebraska farmer Quentin Connealy about the 2026 disease season and what goes into making a fungicide decision.

InnerPlant’s Reza Bloomer, Director of Business Development, and SciMax Team Lead for NEW Cooperative, Peter Bixel, join the show to discuss how the 2026 soybean season is shaping up and what role data plays in critical management decisions that impact yield.

Join InnerPlant’s Gary Schaefer, Chief Commercial Officer, and Ariel Patton, Director of Product, as they talk about what to expect from the 2026 CropVoice season and give a sneak peek behind the scenes of the only plant-powered disease detection tool. 

2025 case study examining the world’s first detection of an active fungal infection in real time in Northeastern Nebraska. https://youtu.be/Qu7fQXx_DP4

In August of 2025, InnerPlant hosted a technology demonstration field day in Perry, IA, that took guests through the 2030 growing season with a walking tour featuring demonstrations representing a different day in the future season. Each stop on the tour showcased a specific aspect of how InnerPlant's technology will shape the future of agriculture.

This special Croptastic series of episodes is designed to tell the story of that day and share the demonstrations with a wider audience. 

This episode features Brandon Rasmussen, InnerPlant’s Remote Sensing Engineer, demonstrating recent detections of the InnerPlant signal from satellite and its implications for informing crop management decisions at scale.

This series of episodes from our Field Day 2030 is best in video form, as there are multiple visual elements that support the presentations. Please check out our YouTube channel to give this and our other episodes a watch.

In August of 2025, InnerPlant hosted a technology demonstration field day in Perry, IA, that took guests through the 2030 growing season with a walking tour featuring demonstrations representing a different day in the future season. Each stop on the tour showcased a specific aspect of how InnerPlant's technology will shape the future of agriculture.

This special Croptastic series of episodes is designed to tell the story of that day and share the demonstrations with a wider audience. 

This episode features InnerPlant’s Chief Commercial Officer, Gary Schaefer, explaining the CropVoice product and how InnerPlant’s technology is delivering value to farmers today.

This series of episodes from our Field Day 2030 is best in video form, as there are multiple visual elements that support the presentations. Please check out our YouTube channel to give this and our other episodes a watch.

In August of 2025, InnerPlant hosted a technology demonstration field day in Perry, IA, that took guests through the 2030 growing season with a walking tour featuring demonstrations representing a different day in the future season. Each stop on the tour showcased a specific aspect of how InnerPlant's technology will shape the future of agriculture.

This special Croptastic series of episodes is designed to tell the story of that day and share the demonstrations with a wider audience. 

This episode features InnerPlant’s CEO and co-founder, Shely Aronov, setting the stage for the day’s demonstrations.

This series of episodes from our Field Day 2030 is best in video form, as there are multiple visual elements that support the presentations. Please check out our YouTube channel to give this and our other episodes a watch.

InnerPlant is planning three field days to show off our CropVoice product that's currently deployed across the Midwest. The events will take place in three sites this summer, July 28 in Stewardson, IL, July 30 in Perry, IA, and Aug. 1, in York, NE. We’re also planning another field day on Aug. 5, in Perry, IA. For that event, we’ll give guests a tour through the growing season in the year 2030 and show them how InnerPlant’s technology will evolve into the future alongside our current commercial CropVoice deployment. This episode brings you along with us on our road trip for a behind-the-scenes peek at our 2025 field day planning effort. 

Don't forget that this season of Croptastic features video. Head over to our YouTube channel to give this and our other episodes a watch.

Shely is joined in this episode by New York Times bestselling author, Michael Grunwald, whose new book "We Are Eating the Earth" publishes on July 1, 2025. Michael shares the idea behind his book and chats with Shely about finding a pragmatic balance between climate and real-world human behavior as it relates to agriculture and food.

"We Are Eating the Earth" is available for pre-order now: 
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Eating-Earth-Climate/dp/1982160071

This is the second of two special episodes featuring Virginia farmer and "King of Corn," who broke the 600-bushel corn barrier, David Hula.  He joins the conversation about a conceptual framework examining the value of agricultural inputs using the examples of how wine and diamonds are valued and sold.  The idea was introduced in Part I by Dan Northrup, a veteran agricultural research scientist with experience at companies including Booz Allen Hamilton and Benson Hill. His current role is Principal, Science and Technology, at Galvanize Climate Solutions.