We launched Yelp for Biologicals! Check it out at AgList.com.

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A principal with Pinion, Brian leads the firm’s Government and Public Affairs service area. With a background in environmental law and regulations, he identifies and educates business owners on how to influence and change political systems for a market advantage. Recent successes include:

• Saving U.S. farmers an estimated $5 billion, collectively, by initiating the Farmers for Tax Fairness coalition to oppose changes to cash accounting, resulting in an ag exemption in the House tax reform draft bill.
• Leading an ongoing effort to change tax code to allow thousands of mutual ditch, irrigation, and water companies to access private investment to upgrade aging water infrastructure.
• Led a coalition instrumental in the passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA). USMCA is critical for U.S. agriculture and ensures preferential market access for our farmers.
• Pulling together a partnership of tribes and dairy farmers to develop a biogas facility and turn dairy manure into 450 kilowatts of power. This effort eliminated a lawsuit threat, increased dairy herd size, and enhanced salmon protection.
• Helping establish a habitat exchange to offset habitat impacts from mineral development by providing incentives to landowner and industry for land and water stewardship.

Brian is a founder of Vela Environmental, a consulting firm supporting long-term business sustainability that became part of the firm in 2013. During the past 20 years, he has served as chief of staff, legislative director, and environmental and energy adviser to U.S. Senator Max Baucus. A leader in sustainability, he was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and selected as a U.S.-Japan Leadership Foundation Fellow.

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Links

• Pinion - https://www.pinionglobal.com/people/brian-kuehl/
• Resources for Affected USA Employees - https://www.linkedin.com/in/constancebowen/ & https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-cain-9734b644/

We launched Yelp for Biologicals! Check it out at AgList.com.

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Arun Ohri was Tim's pick for 2024 Ag Person of the Year on our annual Acre Awards.

Arun Ohri ([email protected]) is a farmer who owns both Jubilant Earth Nursery and AAA Land Management. He was raised by a family of farmers who grew peaches on 20 acres in Yuba City. 

Thirty-six years ago, they also planted walnut trees in what Ohri describes as really bad conditions – “muck.” Those trees have since adapted to rough conditions. Ohri stresses these aren’t genetically modified trees — they have naturally evolved to be able to thrive in poor soil and Jubilant  Earth Nursery now sells them. 

Ohri says these seeds are hardier and make going organic more easy. On his own 1600-acre farm, he currently grows walnuts and almonds. About 400 acres are organic, and he’s working on transitioning the remaining 1,200 acres.

Arun has recently scaled his biological product, Worm Fuel, and also has a DTC nut butter company, Amazing Nut Company.

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Links

• Amazing Nut Company - https://amazingnutcompany.com/
• AgList - https://aglist.com

Come find us at World Ag Expo at the Polaris Energy Services booth in the PG&E Pavilion at the Gate B entrance!

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Clay Mitchell is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fall Line Capital.  He is a fifth-generation Iowa farmer who has spent his entire career becoming one of the most innovative, progressive and respected farmers in the world. Clay led the revolution in precision agriculture from a variable-rate approach to an automation approach. In refining commercial grain farming at The Mitchell Farm, he has conducted highly introspective agronomic studies that have driven innovation in the use of auto-steering, next-generation control systems for farming inputs, wireless farm networking, grain storage automation, no-till farming techniques and controlled-traffic farming systems.

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Links

• Fall Line Capital - https://www.fall-line-capital.com
• Clay on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clay-mitchell-4b66b34/

We launched Yelp for Biologicals! Check it out at AgList.com.

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This month, Tim and Tyler talk with Ariel about her latest Topsoil edition - "The price is right (even when it's low) - A framework for commodity crop prices 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, Mineral, and now, Innerplant.

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Links

• Topsoil - https://topsoil.substack.com
• Ariel on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielpatton/
• AgList - https://aglist.com

We launched Yelp for Biologicals! Check it out at AgList.com.

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Jack Richardson is kicking off a new and improved version of The Modern Acre newsletter. After starting his career in venture banking, Jack has spent the last five years in AgTech, first at a food waste startup and now in precision technology at an Ag OEM. He's spent most of his career in strategy roles where he's explored ways to make business models work. Outside of his specific roles, he's written about the space more broadly – you may have come across his prior writing on LinkedIn.

In tandem with the contributing to the monthly newsletter, Jack will join us on the podcast every month to break down his latest research and dig into the strategy behind the topic he's covering. This month we dig into breaking down the fascinating business of Erewhon. Check out the newsletter here.

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Links

• AgList - https://aglist.com
• Newsletter - https://themodernacre.substack.com
• Tyler on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-nuss/
• Tim on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timnuss/

We're so excited to announce a project that's been in the works for almost a year: AgList.com.

AgList is an online platform that allows farmers to discover and endorse biologicals. Tune in to hear more about why we built it and how you can join the fun on AgList.com.

Special shout out to our launch partners, who believed in our vision before it was built and provided crucial feedback: Pivot Bio, Vestaron, Groundwork BioAg, Kula Bio, Certis Biologicals, Corteva Agriscience, Sound Ag, and Indigo. THANK YOU!

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Links

• AgList - https://aglist.com
• A Letter from Tim and Tyler - https://aglist.com/about-us
• Newsletter AgList Overview - https://themodernacre.substack.com
• Tyler on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-nuss/
• Tim on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timnuss/

John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a regenerative agronomy consulting company, and the host of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. He is known for developing crop nutrition management systems that increase yields and profitability while reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. He has been teaching growers around the world the principles and practices of these regenerative agriculture systems for the past 15 years. It is John’s mission to have regenerative agriculture become the mainstream globally by 2040.

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Links

• John Kempf - https://johnkempf.com
• Advancing Eco Agriculture - https://advancingecoag.com
• Danny on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kempf-6b59a450/
• Tyler on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-nuss/
• Tim on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timnuss/

Danny Bernstein is the Managing Partner of Reservoir Ventures and the CEO of the Reservoir, an ecosystem of nonprofit and for-profit ventures tackling California’s most urgent challenges and opportunities.

Before founding the Reservoir, Danny spent 20 years in Silicon Valley leading business development, partnerships, and developer programs at Google and Microsoft. At Google, he worked across products like Search, Chrome, Firebase, and Google Identity after the acquisition of Meebo, a Web 2.0 startup that was sold to Google 2012. At Microsoft, he led critical product lines for Microsoft Teams.

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Links

• The Reservoir - https://www.reservoir.co
• Danny on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannybernstein/
• Join the Co-op - https://themodernacre.supercast.com
• Subscribe to the Newsletter - https://themodernacre.substack.com

Paul Mikesell is the founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. Paul has deep experience founding and building successful technology startups. Paul co-founded Isilon Systems, a distributed storage company, in 2001. Isilon went public in 2006 and was acquired by EMC for $2.5 billion in 2010. In 2006, Paul co-founded Clustrix, a distributed database startup that was acquired by MariaDB in 2018. Prior to Carbon, Paul served as Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, where he grew the team and opened the company’s engineering office in Seattle, later focusing on deep learning and computer vision.

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Links

Carbon Robotics - https://carbonrobotics.com

Paul on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-mikesell-4b63a9/

Join the Co-op - https://themodernacre.supercast.com

Subscribe to the Newsletter - https://themodernacre.substack.com

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Tune in for our end of year award, recap, and predictions show! Part 2:

• Biggest Change for 2025
• Podcast Recap and Goals
• Nuss Farms Recap and Goals
• Boring Business of the Year
• 2024 Obsession
• 2025 Predictions
• Tim's Surprise Category

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Links

• Join the Co-op - https://themodernacre.supercast.com
• Tegner Mill - https://www.tegnermill.com
• Polaris Energy Services - https://polarisenergyservices.com
• Subscribe to the Newsletter - https://themodernacre.substack.com