Upstream Ag Professional

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

2026 Ag Equipment Dealer Business Outlook & Trends Report Highlights and AnalysisThe Great Unbundling of AgribusinessNewLife Biosciences Receives Patent Approval for Remediate for Biological Remediation in Agriculture

Duration: 00:25:46

This week’s audio edition covers the following:

Corteva, Hexagon Bio Form Multi-Million Dollar JV to Power Next-Generation of Nature Inspired SolutionsGROWMARK Expands St. Louis Manufacturing With Biologicals Production Plant

Duration: 00:22:59

This week's Upstream Ag Professional Audio Edition breaks down the John Deere 2025 Investor Day, including:

Leap Ambitions KPIsAI EffortsNew product uptake See & SprayHarvest AutomationAutonomy

Duration: 00:34:27

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers:

Provivi, Syngenta strike major Brazil deal on pheromone pest controlFMC at Goldman Sachs Industrials and Materials Conference 2025Harvest Loss Technology2025 Crop Life 100 Report: Highlights and Analysis

Duration: 00:23:11

This week's audio edition covers the following:

Highlights of multiple storiesRetailers Need to Take a Stand

Duration: 00:26:27

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers:

Q3 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Results HighlightsICLs New Ambition: Global Specialty Nutrition DominanceMicrosoft and Land O’Lakes Collaborate on AISyngenta opens Cropwise digital platform to developers to co-innovate and tackle agriculture’s technology divide

Duration: 00:33:02

This week’s audio edition covers the following:

Q3 2025 Agribusiness Results Highlights from Corteva, Nutrien, TELUS, Mosaic and CNHJohn Deere Customers Use See & Spray™ Technology Across Five Million Acres in 2025

Duration: 00:32:49

Inside Ag Retail Excellence with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group

In the first episode of the Upstream Ag Insights interview series, Shane Thomas sits down with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group, to unpack what defines top-performing ag retail businesses today.

Brad brings decades of experience across the crop input value chain — from his early days at American Cyanamid and UAP, to leading United Suppliers through its merger with Land O’Lakes, and now advising retailers through Farrell Growth Group.

This conversation dives into:

- How Farrell benchmarks ag r...

Duration: 01:04:49

Inside Ag Retail Excellence with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group

In the first episode of the Upstream Ag Insights interview series, Shane Thomas sits down with Brad Oelmann, CEO of Farrell Growth Group, to unpack what defines top-performing ag retail businesses today.

Brad brings decades of experience across the crop input value chain — from his early days at American Cyanamid and UAP, to leading United Suppliers through its merger with Land O’Lakes, and now advising retailers through Farrell Growth Group.

This conversation dives into:

- How Farrell benchmarks ag r...

Duration: 01:04:49

This week’s audio edition covers the following:

FMC Q3 2025 ResultsThe Four Forces Reshaping the Crop Protection Industry and What Comes Next

Duration: 00:46:12

This week's audio edition covers the following:

Better, Not Less: How AgZen Is Partnering with Corteva and Reframing Precision SprayingA Look at Valmont Industries and Lindsay Corporation Technology Revenue and Tech InvestmentsCarbon Robotics Raise and Lawsuit

Duration: 00:36:57

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition covers:

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

Duration: 00:39:32

The October 12th 2025 Edition covers the following:

Revolutionizing Wheat: A look at Corteva, and Competitors, Hybrid Wheat InitiativesVive Secures $10 Million in Oversubscribed Financing RoundProfluent announces multi-year collaboration with Corteva to accelerate sustainable, AI-powered crop innovationOerthBio Shuts Down

Duration: 00:26:42

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.

Duration: 00:32:42

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

Highlights from other stories in the written edition.AskUpstream OverviewDrone Startup Guardian Agriculture Shuts Down + Are VCs to blame?Salience Bias and Model Usage in Ag

Duration: 00:41:43

This week's edition covers:

WIPO Agriculture Patent Landscape Report Highlights and AnalysisH1 2025 Agrifood Funds ReportNutrien Says The Future Is A ‘Clicks and Mortar Business’

Duration: 00:44:59

This week's edition covers the following:

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

Duration: 00:45:08

This week's audio edition covers:

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

Duration: 00:47:33

This week's ediiton covers the following topics:

Moa develops groundbreaking category of crop protection; signs partnership deal with GowanVCs Should Still Chase Agtech Cinderella’s

Duration: 00:34:30

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

Q2 2025 Equipment Manufacturer Results Highlights, Themes and AnalysisWhat Crop Input Providers Can Learn from Louis Vuitton, Ferrari and GucciPerception Risk in Farming

Duration: 00:36:39

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

Q2 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results: Themes, Highlights and Analysis Competing on Analytics and the Future of Ag Input CommercializationJohn Deere Q3 2025 ResultsBuilding to Exit: Lessons from Bilberry's Journey & Acquisition

Duration: 00:42:36

This week's edition covers the following:

Q2 2025 Agribusiness Results Summary: Bayer, Corteva, Nutrien, Mosaic, and ICLPrecision, Platform, Performance: Inside Meristem’s BIO-CAPSULEInterest in biostimulants ‘extraordinary’ despite 86% funding drop to category

Duration: 00:39:43

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional dives into:

Q2 2025 Agribusiness Earnings Results Summary: BASF, FMC, UPL, AGCO, CNH & TELUSFarmers Business Network Secures $50MGrowers Edge Acquires FarmTest to Help Retailers and Manufacturers Deliver Proven Product PerformanceDTN Acquires Grain Discovery, Expanding Digital Capabilities for Agribusinesses GeoPard and MCPsRantizo Spray Operations Acquired by Strategic Investment Group; Business Rebrands as American Autonomy, Inc.BioConsortia Closes Financing to Accelerate Launch of Nitrogen-Fixing Biofertilizer and Global Expansion

Duration: 00:45:02

This week's edition covers the following topics:

Q2 2025 Agribusiness Earnings Results Summary: BASF, FMC, UPL, AGCO, CNH & TELUSFarmers Business Network Secures $50MGrowers Edge Acquires FarmTest to Help Retailers and Manufacturers Deliver Proven Product PerformanceDTN Acquires Grain Discovery, Expanding Digital Capabilities for Agribusinesses GeoPard and MCPsRantizo Spray Operations Acquired by Strategic Investment Group; Business Rebrands as American Autonomy, Inc.BioConsortia Closes Financing to Accelerate Launch of Nitrogen-Fixing Biofertilizer and Global Expansion

Duration: 00:45:02

This week's edition covers highlights from Pivot Bio's Innovation and Investor Day in Minneapolis, MN.

Duration: 00:52:20

This week’s audio edition covers the following:

Companies vs. TechAgVend Launches Loyalty & Rewards Program Builder + CHS Capital and AgVend expand connection to deliver digital financing solutionsIt's time to "Open Up" around FMISQ2 2025 AgTech Venture Capital Investment and Exit Round UpDoes AgTech Have a Terminology Problem?

Duration: 00:33:39

This week’s audio edition covers:

Inside Miraterra’s Bet on Soil IntelligenceLavie Bio Sale to ICL Closes

Duration: 00:37:45

This week's edition covers the following stories:

Highlight H1 2025 AgTech Funding Agribusiness CVC InvestmentsPrecision Ag Dealer Survey HighlightsCan AI Get EQ + Judgement + Context and Displace Agronomists?

Duration: 00:30:21

This week’s audio edition covers:

Stratus Ag Research Biostimulant Survey 2024: Insight from the American Farmer + The Nuance of BiostimulantsCorteva CEO Chuck Magro at Wolfe Research Materials Conference: Commoditizing Gene Editing Technology

Duration: 00:42:33

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional Audio Edition includes:

Precision and Digital Ag Highlights from John Deere’s Brazil Investor Day (45 second mark)M&A Challenges in Ag (4:38 mark)Crop Protection Programs (15:45 mark)

Duration: 00:32:00

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

Q1 2025 results and macro themes across ag equipment manufacturers (3:30)The intersection of machine vision tools and weed resistance mechanisms (8:30)Ergodicity and why survival, not optimization, explains how farmers and agronomists make decisions (15:20)

Duration: 00:23:04

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

Q1 2025 Fertilizer Manufacturers Results Highlights (3:10 mark)Unlocking Chemistry with Code? A Look at AI in Crop Protection Discovery (16:20 mark)Brilliant Harvest Brings AI to Equipment Dealers (28:07)

Duration: 00:37:51

This week's edition of Upstream Ag Professional covers:

Quick Hits on Q1 2025 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results (5:00 min mark) Bayer Bankruptcy Filing? (19 min mark)John Deere Acquires Sentera to Integrate Aerial Field Scouting (25:15 min mark)

Duration: 00:42:07

The May 18th 2025 edition of Upstream Ag Professional audio includes:

Upstream Overview for the WeekQ1 2025 Agribusiness Results Highlights and Analysis: TELUS, Deere, and UPL (6:00 min)Bayer Crop Science Strategy Update Highlights and Analysis (18:55 min)AgTech Collaboration Through a Wide Lens (46:15)

Duration: 01:01:05

This week's audio edition covers:

Highlights from CNH Investor Day and Q1 2025 Earning Results from Nutrien, Mosaic and Corteva (00:50 second mark)Syngenta Acquires Intrinsyx Bio (40:00 mark)If every company is a regenerative ag company, then no company is a regenerative ag company (48.37)

Duration: 00:59:06

This week’s Upstream Ag Professional audio edition includes:

Highlights from Mindware: 25 General Thinking Principles for Agribusiness Professionals (1:40 mark)Highlights from Agribusiness Q1 2025 Results: FMC, Syngenta, BASF, CNH Industrial and AGCO (16:25 mark)

Duration: 00:36:51

This week’s Upstream Ag Professional audio edition includes:

A look at the Lavie Bio Acquisition by ICL (00:40)Overview of the Bayer AGM, including highlights on glyphosate, DSO (19:00)Ag Retail Differentiation (31:45)

Duration: 00:45:18

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition includes:

Cultura Emphasizing Supply Chain Connectivity: A look at Constellation Software and their Approach in Agriculture + Private Equity and Ag Software (1:08 min)Farmers’ Favorite Weedkiller Nears Its End, Bayer Warns (20:00 min)Indigo approaches a megaton of carbon removals stored in US cropland (29:05 min)

Duration: 00:33:22

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition includes:

The Insight is the Edge: Vive Crop ProtectionCarbon Robotics Introduces Tractor Autonomy Solution: An Illustration of ComplementsAg Companies and their Comments on Tariffs - CNH Industrial, Deere, AGCO, Lindsay Corp, Crop Protection Manufacturers

Duration: 00:35:38

This week's Upstream Ag Professional audio edition includes:

Stratus Ag Research: Evolution of Channel Influence Study 2024 Highlights and AnalysisTELUS shares tumble on Bank of America downgrade over leverage and dividend payout concernsSyngenta Group FY 2024 Financial Results

Duration: 00:45:05

This week’s audio edition covers:

Mosaic Investor Day 2025 Highlight and Analysis - Starts at 1:25 minute mark. Control Points: Industry Influence, to Digital Integration to GenAI - Starts at 30:30 mark.a. Beyond the System of Record: Becoming an Industry Ledgerb. Divergent Digital Strategies: BASF, Bayer, Corteva and Syngentac. BASF Launches xarvio FIELD MANAGER For AgBusiness

Duration: 00:54:37

Audio this week covers:

World AgriTech Innovation Summit TakeawaysCo-op Leads The Way With Using Selective Spraying: Systems Thinking, The Red Queen and Commoditized Complements

Duration: 00:38:28

FY 2024 Crop Protection and Seed Company Results: Themes, Highlights and AnalysisBayer Crop Science FY 2024 Results a. Glyphosate Business Unit b. Burn it to the Ground?Tidemark Invests in AgVend

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Duration: 00:47:44

Audio edition for March 2nd 2025

Duration: 00:53:26