Upstream Ag Professional

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers:

1. The Danger of Dominant Logic: What Pioneer’s Blind Spot Reveals About Disruption in Agriculture
2. Ascribe Bio Closes $12 Million Series A Financing to Advance Next-Generation Natural Crop Protection Co-Led by Acre Venture Partners and Corteva
3. Ecorobotix Crosses Over $200 million Raised: A look at Revenue, Business Model, GTM and Paths to Exit

The October 12th 2025 Edition covers the following:

1. Revolutionizing Wheat: A look at Corteva, and Competitors, Hybrid Wheat Initiatives
2. Vive Secures $10 Million in Oversubscribed Financing Round
3. Profluent announces multi-year collaboration with Corteva to accelerate sustainable, AI-powered crop innovation
4. OerthBio Shuts Down

This week’s audio edition covers the news on Corteva to Spin-Out Seed from Crop Protection and Liabilities. *Due to some error this week's edition got cut to only the Corteva news.

The topics covered in this week's audio edition include:

1. Highlights from other stories in the written edition.
2. AskUpstream Overview
3. Drone Startup Guardian Agriculture Shuts Down + Are VCs to blame?
4. Salience Bias and Model Usage in Ag

This week's edition covers:

1. WIPO Agriculture Patent Landscape Report Highlights and Analysis
2. H1 2025 Agrifood Funds Report
3. Nutrien Says The Future Is A ‘Clicks and Mortar Business’

This week's edition covers the following:

1. Clockspeed and Capital Allocation in Ag: Are food and agriculture giants sleepwalking into irrelevance?
2. Corteva explores splitting seed and pesticide units

This week's audio edition covers:

1. Patent Breakdowns: Nitrogen Fixing Technology
2. Follow up from Moa and Gowan Partnership Last Week: Amplifiers and Corteva Fungicide Synergist Patent Application
3. Land O’Lakes, Inc. and Local Ag Retailers Announce Participation in AgRogue Growth Partners to Find, Fund and Scale New Ag Technologies

This week's ediiton covers the following topics:

1. Moa develops groundbreaking category of crop protection; signs partnership deal with Gowan
2. VCs Should Still Chase Agtech Cinderella’s

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio covers:

1. Q2 2025 Equipment Manufacturer Results Highlights, Themes and Analysis
2. What Crop Input Providers Can Learn from Louis Vuitton, Ferrari and Gucci
3. Perception Risk in Farming

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers:

1. Q2 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results: Themes, Highlights and Analysis
2. Competing on Analytics and the Future of Ag Input Commercialization
3. John Deere Q3 2025 Results
4. Building to Exit: Lessons from Bilberry's Journey & Acquisition