Biocontrols for the future, with Pam Marrone
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
"It's a very exciting time to be in agriculture, and a really great time to be a farmer, I think, and a great time to be an entrepreneur." ~Pam Marrone
Pam is the founder and CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations, a leader in bio-pesticide research and manufacturing. She is a Ph.D. entomologist, turned entrepreneur. Pam is an inspiration to not only the next generation of microbial Ag researchers but to women in science and business. In addition, her work has helped farmers who are looking for more benign ways to address pest challenges.
Marrone's career has taken her from Monsanto and Novo Nordisk to entrepreneurial ventures such as Agraquest Inc. and MBI.
Her research screening for microbes and their products has yielded a library of tens of thousands of potentially useful microbes, and has given the world several of it's most widely used Bio-Pesticides.Pam also co-founded the Biological Products Industry Alliance to help growers understand HOW to make the best use of these materials in a combined whole farm program.
Throughout this fascinating conversation you will discover:
- 50% of pharmaceuticals are derived from natural products, but only 15% of pesticides
- Environments where one is more likely to find insecticidal microbes compared to fungicidal microbes
- Technologies that are enabling faster and more effective microbial and metabolite research
- Microbial shifts observed due to different farming practices
- Ecological and profitable advantages of BioControls over synthetics
- The great need for more multifactor, on-farm, holistic research as opposed to single-factor, silver bullet research
- Why it's not necessarily the bacteria or fungi themselves, but the compounds they produce that we are looking for
Enjoy!
John
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Episode Resources
- Marrone Bio Innovations
- Bio-bites articles and podcasts linked on Pam's blog
- ATTRA
- IR4 at Rutgers
- Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA)
- Biocontrols market growth [article, report]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. This is John. I'm passionate about developing regenerative agriculture systems |
| 0:05.7 | that improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases and insects, |
| 0:11.3 | and produce food of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate conversation about |
| 0:16.9 | growing food as medicine. I've been fortunate to meet many people with incredible knowledge |
| 0:21.5 | and information about soil and plant systems. However, much of this knowledge and information |
| 0:25.9 | is scattered all over the place. There are many incredible stories and a lot of knowledge that |
| 0:31.5 | have not been widely shared. I founded advancing eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this knowledge together in a more coherent fashion |
| 0:39.3 | and incorporate it into products and growing systems that growers can easily put into practice. |
| 0:44.3 | It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agriculture systems become the mainstream globally, |
| 0:50.3 | the status quo against which all other growing systems are compared. To achieve this goal, |
| 0:55.5 | I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last decade and make it available to |
| 0:59.1 | everyone. These concepts and principles about regenerative systems can be applied anywhere, |
| 1:05.4 | and when they're properly applied, they will increase farm profitability and resilience to climate |
| 1:10.4 | stress. |
| 1:11.3 | If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or topics of ideas that you would like for me to |
| 1:16.5 | discuss, please connect on social media or email me, John at regenerative agriculturepodcast.com. |
| 1:23.6 | Be sure to sign up for our email list at regenerative agriculture podcast.com. |
| 1:28.3 | Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening. |
| 1:30.3 | Hi friends. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm here with Pam Morone, an exceptional entrepreneur who has done quite a bit of intriguing work in the area of bio pesticides and biostimulants. |
| 1:41.3 | Pam, you've had a very interesting pathway in life, working with your |
| 1:45.9 | degree at Cornell, working for Monsanto and Entotech, your work at AgriQuest. Most recently, |
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