agrifood tech

Ep 68: David Carter on becoming the world's only carbon neutral fishing company

Ep 68: David Carter on becoming the world's only carbon neutral fishing company

David Carter is the CEO of Austral Fisheries, one of Australia’s largest integrated commercial fishing companies. Austral Fisheries has a reputation as a market leader: they are the only commercial fishing company in the world to be certified as Carbon Neutral, and have been offsetting their emissions to zero since 2016.

In this episode we talk about:

  • David's path from deckhand to CEO

  • Austral's journey from commodity to branded, premium product

  • The bold goals that Austral have set on issues like bycatch and carbon emissions

  • How technology is helping Austral respond to consumer demands and address social license issues

  • The 'unlikely alliances' powering Austral Fisheries’ market leading position

Ep 66: Jim Chambers (Trimble) and Derek Norman (Bayer) on agtech acquisitions

Ep 66: Jim Chambers (Trimble) and Derek Norman (Bayer) on agtech acquisitions

Today’s episode is all about corporate investments and acquisitions in agtech. Two guests, Derek Norman (VP at Leaps by Bayer) and Jim Chambers (President and General Manager of the Worldwide Agriculture Business at Trimble) cover different ways startups can engage with corporates, from early stage direct strategic investments, to channel partnerships, to acquisitions.

This episode was recorded LIVE at an event we co-hosted with Tim Hammerich, host of the Future of Agriculture podcast. If you're not yet a FoA listener, check out episode 201 featuring AgThentic Partner Matthew Pryor.

Ep63 Evan Fraser on 3 barriers to agtech adoption and impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture

Ep63 Evan Fraser on 3 barriers to agtech adoption and impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture

Evan Fraser is a food systems innovation expert. His passion for agriculture comes from his love of good food and summers spent spent working on his grandfather’s farm (more on that in the episode). He brings a multi-disciplinary and systems approach to his work, with degrees and work experience in various fields from anthropology to atmospheric chemistry to agriculture.

In this episode, Evan and I cover two main topics:

  1. Three big barriers to agtech adoption, and what’s being done to overcome them; and

  2. The impact of COVID-19 on agricultural supply chains.

Check out the episode blog for more on Evan and links to additional resources.

BONUS Episode: Live panel from evokeAG 2020 featuring global agrifood tech experts

BONUS Episode: Live panel from evokeAG 2020 featuring global agrifood tech experts

evokeAG, Asia Pacific's largest agrifood tech event, brought together 1300 innovators earlier in February this year in Melbourne, Australia. The jam-packed event featured international experts, innovative farmers, dozens of startups, and much more, showcasing what the region has to offer in agrifood tech innovation.

This bonus episode gives a taste of evokeAG and a live recording of the first panel on the main stage: The Asia-Pacific region and how we are rising. Panelists included:

Episode 53: researcher & startup collaborations in agtech (live panel)

Episode 53: researcher & startup collaborations in agtech (live panel)

Coming to you live from the AgTech Meetup in Sydney, this panel explores what it takes for startups and researchers to collaborate successfully in agrifood. Panelists for the evening were: Dr Peter Thorburn, Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO; Tegan Nock, Co-Founder at SoilCQuest 2031; and Nick Hazell, Founder and CEO at V2 Food.

The AgTech Meetup is proudly sponsored by SproutX, Australia’s first agtech accelerator.

Episode 51: Victor Friedberg on the transition from commodity to identity

Episode 51: Victor Friedberg on the transition from commodity to identity

Today’s guest, Victor Friedberg is the co-founder of S2G ventures, a Chicago-based firm that has backed companies across the ag and food industries such as Beyond Meat, Maple Hill Creamery, Benson Hill Biosystems, and Mercaris. Victor is also the founder of Foodshot Global, a non-profit consortium of companies focused on creating a food system that's more healthy, sustainable, and equitable.