Episode 182: Product, Financing And Technology Tools Drive the Retail Industry

Scott Kay, vice president of U.S. agricultural solutions at BASF, details the seed technology, crop protection solutions, and more that farmers and retailers can expect in the near future.

Episode 181: What Is The Super Power Of Ag Retail Salespeople

Greg Martinelli specializes in ag sales team development and shares what can be resolutions for the 2025 selling season. He gives 7 tips for salespeople in the current ag economic cycle.

Episode 180: How To Elevate Irrigation With Artificial Intelligence

Netafim, an international pioneer for subsurface irrigation, has a new offering in its GrowSphere operating system. As Mike Hemman, SVP North America for Netafim explains it’s one tool the company is bringing forward to further refine and improve water efficiency and yields.

Episode 179: Insights For The Future of Ag Trade With Former Ambassador Terry Branstad

Ambassador Terry Branstad was the first U.S. state governor to host Xi Jinping in 1985, so he carries the unique distinction of being called an “old friend” by the Chinese leader as well as a friend to President Donald Trump. Branstad highlights how “for a trade deal to be good, it needs to be a wi…

Episode 178: Could Tech Revolutionize Drift Damage Claims?

The team at Aanika Bio is offering a product that combines drift traceability and insurance. Whereas current processes take six months and are accused of being more subjective than objective, Aanika Bio uses synthetic biology (traceable down to one spray droplet on one square yard of leaf surface) …

Episode 177: Bringing A Step Change Improvement In Retailer Efficiency

A recently announced partnership with Syngenta and Taranis will bring a proof of concept at scale. As explained by Meade McDonald, digital ag solutions marketing manager at Syngenta, starting this fall, select midwestern retailers will be using the artificial intelligence platform and scouting tool…

Episode 176: How To Serve Your Best And Biggest Customers

It’s beyond a traditional understanding of point, click, buy e-commerce. Co-founder and CEO of AgVend Alexander Reichert shares how ag retailers are looking to digitally enable not just the customer experience, but also have best in class tools for their sales teams, their marketing teams, finance,…

Episode 175: Great Things Happen With Great Teams

Former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Colonel Mike Mullane shares motivating stories from space learned from 356 logged hours aboard the Atlantis and Discovery Shuttles before retiring in 1990. As a Weapon Systems Operator aboard a RF-4C Phantom aircraft, he completed 134 combat missions in Viet…

Episode 174: How Bayer's New Operating Model Is Transforming the Company

Barry Jacobson is the business unit lead for Bayer crop science in southern Iowa. He leads a team of 35 and has been on the frontline of implementing Bayer’s new operating model—dynamic shared ownership. Jacobson shares how DSO is changing how Bayer internally works together, works with its channel…

Episode 173: Unlocking Conservation Agriculture: Retailer's Role at the Ground Level

New research outlines the key obstacles in adopting conservation agriculture practices, and how the path of least resistance forward is via ag retail. Dayna Gross, manager of programs and partnership for sustainable and responsible business team at Syngenta, discusses how the company’s goal is to m…