Seed World Podcast

Mike Lizotte, owner and manager of American Meadows, sits down with Seed World editor Alex Martin to chat about the challenges of 2020 and looking ahead to the spring season. In talking COVID, Lizotte said they had to learn and communicate much differently with everyone working from home. Whether the technical challenges of making sure […]

During the Virtual ASTA CSS Seed Expo 2021, Alex Martin sits down with Jeff Kaiser, seed treatment service manager of Nufarm. While Jeff could talk about transitioning into a new normal all day long, that isn’t his passion. His real passion? Seed treatments, of course! He discusses Nufarm’s Trunemco, a treatment targeting nematodes in cotton, corn […]

During the Virtual ASTA CSS Seed Expo 2021, Alex Martin sits down with Andy LaVigne, CEO of the American Seed Trade Association. LaVigne discusses some of the difficulties in working from home and switching to virtual seed meetings. However, LaVigne says that while it’s been an interesting switch, the seed industry and ASTA have found […]

In this episode of Rebel Rules, Kumar Devarajan, engineer manager, and Lauren Berg, customer success and integration manager, of Oliver Manufacturing sit down with Shawn Brook. Together, they talk about their Field Feedback Absorption Loop and whatever information they get in the field, they use that to make adjustments in their strategy and engineering. Both […]

Michelle Klieger, editorial director for Seed World Pro and an economist based in Massachusetts, talks to Marc Zienkiewicz about the coming U.S. presidential election and what the future could look like under both a Donald Trump and Joe Biden administration.

SeedWorld PRO podcast host, Michelle Klieger sits down with Jeff Nawn, CEO of North Hill Group to discuss recent consumer research his company conducted in Japan. His team surveyed consumers across genders and ages in Japan to learn about their attitudes toward GMOs and gene edited products. They also learned what attributes consumers care about.

Shawn Brook, President of the Seed World Group, sits down to talk with Garlich von Essen, Euroseeds Secretary-General, about a whole new experience during the upcoming Euroseeds2020 Virtual Congress! Von Essen talks also about how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the industry and about the role of Euroseeds and its members in important policy discussions […]

In this Innovation Series Podcast, Shawn Brook sits down with Rob McClelland, the managing director of Meristem. Rob shares that although at one point in time Meristem’s technology might have been called “snake oil,” they’re working hard to prove to make products like biologicals are valuable technologies for farmers. Their technology looks to increase yield, […]

In episode three of Rebel Rules with Oliver Manufacturing, Lauren Wilken and Troy Jackson, regional territory managers of Oliver Manufacturing, sit down with Shawn Brook. One word that really popped up during this interview was “customer-centric,” and Wilken and Jackson both share their ideas of putting the customer first. In addition, both talk about their […]

The 2020 annual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders is going virtual. It is the 10th annual meeting of the NAPB and was supposed to have physically taken place in Lincoln, Nebraska. “We would have loved to have people come to Lincoln for this event, but obviously going virtual would be best for all […]