The Modern Acre

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David Leon of Biome Capital Partners and Tim Luckow of Farm lead our recent Co-op members call discussing how they are building their investment firms focused on regenerative farmland.

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Peter Young is the President of Belkorp Ag, a John Deere dealership that offers a complete line of John Deere agricultural, golf, and turf equipment. Belkorp Ag serves the Central Valley and the North Coast of California from eight locations.

Belkorp Ag is a member of the Belkorp Group of Companies. The Belkorp Group of Companies is a 2nd generation family-owned business located in Vancouver, BC. Belkorp's origins date back to the 1940s. The Belkorp Group has grown over the past decades and has diversified holdings throughout the United States and Canada.

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• Peter on LinkedIn
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Joe Mosher is the Founder and Principal of Mosher Consulting Group and host of The Pacesetter Pod. Mosher Consulting Group helps food and agribusiness companies grow their businesses, deliver profitable results, and set their people up for future success.

For more than 15 years, Joe has supported executives in executing their strategies and realizing value from their M&A activities. He is focused on the small to middle market food and agribusiness sector.

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• Mosher Consulting Group
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Matt Nicoletti is the Director of Business Development at Penny Newman Grain Company. From its beginning in 1878 as a mercantile store in Fresno, CA, Penny Newman Grain has grown to become a leading merchant in the international market for grain and feed by-products. They are supply chain experts and develop unique logistical solutions to deliver a maximum return for producers whilst minimizing input costs for end-users. Their newest division, Farm Products, offers a portfolio of innovative crop fertility inputs that help growers improve their profitability through regenerative methods. Penny Newman's Farm Products Division was born out of a recognition that optimum crop fertility and resilience can be accomplished through alternative methods to those being offered to growers today.

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• Acre Awards Part 1
• Acre Awards Part 2
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Tune in for our end of year award, recap, and predictions show! Part 2:

• Biggest Change for 2024
• Podcast Recap and Goals
• Nuss Farms Recap and Goals
• Boring Business of the Year
• 2023 Obsession
• 2024 Predictions
• Ag Business Ideas

• Edward Silva on Future of Ag podcast
• Seana Day and Mark Brooks on AgTech investing

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Tune in for our end of year award, recap, and predictions show! Part 1:

• Favorite Episode of the Year
• Business We'd Invest $10,000 In
• Ag Person of the Year
• Favorite Business Person
• Craziest Person We're Following
• Favorite Content

• Kevin Schwartz on the podcast
• The Climate Corporation
• Agtonomy
• Maui Nui
• Ohalo
• Brent Beshore
• Andrew Wilkinson
• David Senra Founders Podcast
• Reg Zeller
• Jesse Itzler
• Jeremy Giffon on Invest Like the Best

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Lundberg Family Farms is a leading grower of organic rice and maker of best-selling packaged rice and rice snacks. We talk with Brita Lundberg, Communications Manager and Bryce Lundberg, VP of Agriculture regarding the company's origin story, regenerative ag efforts, approach to marketing, and how they continue to innovate and grow the family business.

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Dan White is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clean Crop Technologies, an agtech startup that uses electricity to fight food waste and food safety risk. Clean Crop's proprietary 'Clean Current' technology combines electricity and food-grade gasses to remove contaminants from seeds and foods to increase crop yields, reduce food waste, and increase food safety.

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• Clean Crop Website
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Tim Bucher is the CEO and Founder of Agtonomy, a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. They partner with established equipment manufacturers to transform tractors and agriculture machines into autonomous and remote-controlled equipment that is accessible to local farmers.

Tim is a lifelong farmer who also spent the bulk of his career in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. He worked for a number of successful startups and founders, including Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell. We dig into his background and the story of founding and scaling Agtonomy.

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• Agtonomy Website
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This month, Tim and Tyler talk with Ariel about her latest Topsoil edition - "Farming is a team sport - A framework for roles on the farm."

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 and currently, Mineral.

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