Disrupting Big Ag
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Investors poured $17bn into agricultural food and technology startups in 2018, fuelled by threats to the world's food supply, including climate change and a growing global population. We visit one such startup, Indigo Ag, which is working with farmers to trial its microbial products for healthier crops. Indigo Ag provides microbial seed treatments to farmers for free in exchange for data. The company also sells the seed treatments through its standard commercial model.
With guests Emiko Terazono, FT commodities correspondent, Ben Riensche, owner and manager, Blue Diamond Farming Company and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, co-founder and chief innovation officer, Indigo Ag.
Read more from Emiko on agricultural food and technology at FT.com:
https://www.ft.com/content/ee6fb294-edc3-11e8-8180-9cf212677a57 (paywall)
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| 0:30.2 | Earlier this year, our producer Mark Filipino traveled to Jessep, Iowa to meet with a farmer we had been trying to get in touch with for months. |
| 0:37.5 | Mark arrived on a clear, crisp spring afternoon, the kind of weather that Ben Ritchie, the farmer in question, had |
| 0:44.7 | been waiting for for a while. |
| 0:46.5 | I mean we're a month behind because of excessive rain. |
| 0:50.1 | I mean it's kind of dried out so it's marginally fit to take the tractors back out to the field |
| 0:55.8 | and it's supposed to start pouring rain at 4 o'clock tomorrow morning |
| 1:00.0 | which meant that Ben and his crew would be working until 4 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:05.0 | They had to take advantage of this rare window of good weather to plant their soybeans and corn. |
| 1:10.0 | We got to get this crap in the ground because we get one paycheck a year and I want it to be a good one and if you plant late |
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