Kassi Tom Rowland and Elizabeth Jack have been meeting like this—over video conference online—for years. Today, they invited host Vonnie Lea to join them.
Kassi Tom Rowland and Elizabeth Jack have been meeting like this—over video conference online—for years. Today, they invited host Vonnie Lea to join them.
Conservis founder Pat Christie discusses the advent of digital farming platforms and what it means for farmers, and the planet.
Conservis founder Pat Christie discusses the advent of digital farming platforms and what it means for farmers, and the planet.
“With the technology that's available today, [the farmer] can know exactly where that seed went, how deep it was planted into the soil, and every seed is essentially tagged with a geo-location stamp. And so, that stamp is then collected, every seed, one at a time, and it turns into a map. It's incredible the amount of data that is being organized.”
“With the technology that's available today, [the farmer] can know exactly where that seed went, how deep it was planted into the soil, and every seed is essentially tagged with a geo-location stamp. And so, that stamp is then collected, every seed, one at a time, and it turns into a map. It's incredible the amount of data that is being organized.”
Chrome, glass, steel, and—rust? The large historic tractor in the ultra-modern space is the only giveaway that Vonnie and Nalini are at an agricultural company’s offices.
Chrome, glass, steel, and—rust? The large historic tractor in the ultra-modern space is the only giveaway that Vonnie and Nalini are at an agricultural company’s offices.
Nalini Polavarapu shows host Vonnie Lea a computer chip, which can now hold 14 acres worth of data and shave a year off the research and development pipeline.
Nalini Polavarapu shows host Vonnie Lea a computer chip, which can now hold 14 acres worth of data and shave a year off the research and development pipeline.
Podcast host Vonnie Lea sits with Nalini Polavarapu at Bayer Crop Science’s Chicago offices.
Podcast host Vonnie Lea sits with Nalini Polavarapu at Bayer Crop Science’s Chicago offices.
Featured Guests
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Nalini Polavarapu, Ph.D. - As one of Monsanto Company’s (now Bayer’s) first data scientist hires, Nalini is used to work so cutting edge that most people don’t quite understand it. In her over a decade at the company, Nalini pioneered the use of data and artificial intelligence to optimize the pipeline for the biggest plant breeding program on earth. |
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Pat Christie - After observing a void in the market, Pat founded digital farming platform Conservis to bring Financial Technology to Agriculture Technology—and help farmers find a way to be more sustainable, sustainably. |
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Kassi Tom Rowland - Farmer and agvocate Kassi helps manage her family farm, Tom Farms, in Leesburg, Indiana. She shares snippets of farm life on social media as @TomFarms. |
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Elizabeth Jack - Fellow agvocate and longtime friend Elizabeth works on a family farm called Silent Shade Planting Company in the Mississippi Delta. Like Kassi, Elizabeth uses social media to share her day-to-day life and invite others to see what modern farming actually looks like. |
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Tim Moffett - Tim is a dairy farmer turned comedian who brings ag humor to the masses, in person and on the Internet. |
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Ben Wellington - Statistician and self-identified “quant”, Ben Wellington applies public data sets to public policy in the pursuit of a more sensical and efficient world. His TEDx Talk, “How we found the worst place to park in New York City,” has been viewed more than 1 million times. |
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