The Scoop Podcast

Cooperative Ventures is a new capital fund aimed at ag tech startups announced by Growmark and CHS. The two cooperatives will be equal partners in the $50 million fund, which will focus on breakthrough technologies for the ag industry. 

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Analyst of the ag retail business Shane Thomas joins the podcast to talk about his latest insights from taking survey of the business landscape and seeing what technologies and trends are on the horizon.

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Allison Nepveux, Director of Sustainability at Bushel, details the intersection of technology and supply chains in agriculture and how it’s opening opportunities for grain elevators and farmers in digitizing their business.

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Greg Martinelli shares the top trend in ag sales is solidifying your position as a trusted adviser to your farmer customers. He says as customers have gotten more sophisticated the role of a salesperson is beyond just production education—and combined with COVID-19’s influence–sales professionals have to have a compelling reason to visit the farm.

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Tracy Linbo with Growers Edge joins the podcast to talk about financial technology and how ag retailers can use such tools to help farmers try out new products or practices with more confidence.

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Andrew Gladden, Chief Technology Officer, Luckey Farmers, Inc., tells an amazing, pro-active story about how Luckey Farmer’s use of real-time data collection to track the commercial applicator and tender truck fleet, led to value-added uses to benefit growers: 1)  data helped to fuel 4R certification, 2) data is used as a system of record to help the co-op and growers in the Great Lakes watershed document where, when and how fertilizer and crop management products are being applied to fields and 3) data is enabling growers to participate in other incentive-focused conservation initiatives.

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On The Scoop podcast, Joel Wipperfurth the Director of Business Operations and Retail Execution at Winfield United, shares the biggest vulnerability in agriculture is stranded data. He says the big trend in technology is enabling data to work together and elevate insights. And he details one example as the Advanced Acre Prescription Program, which gives farmers a warranty on their data-based decisions and product performance.

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Tim Laatsch, Koch Agronomic Services director of agronomy, North America, and Jared Miller, master agronomist at MKC, share a bit about the conversations they are having with farmers this spring season and provide great examples of how nitrogen stabilizers and inhibitors are providing return on investment.

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Ag Partners cooperative in Kansas is thinking about the big picture with technology advances and heading to the field with a smaller sized application technology. The team at Ag Partners is joining the Rantizo network which includes 40 contractors across 18 states using the technology to apply via drones.

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Bradford Warner, VP of business development and sustainability at Farmobile, explains why now is the time for ag retailers to get engaged with opportunities around data.

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