Ep. 109 Grand Farm - Capitalizing on ag tech

Agriculture Technology Podcast

RDO Equipment Co.

Technology

4.2 • 48 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Grand Farm is an exciting initiative in the Red River Valley. Led by Emerging Prairie, Grand Farm aims to capitalize on the region’s potential in the agriculture and technology industries, focusing on creating the farm of the future by developing new opportunities and accelerating change. By inspiring collaboration among businesses, organizations, and entrepreneurs who will solve issues critical to family farms worldwide, like labor shortages and rising operational costs, Grand Farm plans to help feed the growing world, develop new opportunities for our communities and align organizations to the evolving themes that will accelerate change. Brian Carroll is the Director of Operations at Grand Farm, and he joins the latest episode of Agriculture Technology Podcast to give more insight into Grand Farm – how it developed, its ongoing goals and mission, and what autonomous farming could look like by 2025. ----- Learn More: Tune in as we share the latest in agriculture technology by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Have a story idea or a precision ag topic we should highlight? Connect with us on social media: Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter and connect with podcast host, Tony Kramer on Twitter at: (@)RDOTonyK.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Tony Kramer, product specialist with RDO Equipment Company, and you are listening to the Agriculture Technology podcast.
0:09.0	Every day, there are phenomenal advancements being made in the field of agriculture technology.
0:13.5	RDO Equipan Company is a leader in agriculture equipment and precision agriculture technology and is here with industry experts bringing the latest news and information from RDO and John Deere. Thanks for joining us on the Agriculture Technology podcast.
0:26.2	Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 109 and today we are going
0:32.3	to be talking about the Grand Farm. Before we dive into the show, please take a moment to subscribe to this podcast
0:38.5	if you haven't already. You can subscribe to the show on the many different podcasting apps
0:43.0	that we're streaming this out to, such as Apple's podcast app. We have it on Stitcher, Overcast,
0:48.6	SoundCloud, as well as many others. While you're out there, drop us a review. We'd love to hear
0:53.6	what you think about the show.
0:55.4	Lastly, make sure to follow RDO equipment company on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and catch all
1:01.4	of our latest videos on YouTube. You can also follow me on Twitter at RDO-K. Now with that,
1:08.2	let's get back to the show. I am very excited to welcome Brian Carroll, who is the
1:13.0	Director of Operations with Emerging Prairie. Thanks for joining us on the show today, Brian. To get
1:18.2	started, I'd really like to hear a little bit more about you and your background and how you got to
1:22.7	where you are today. Well, thanks, Anthony. I'm really pleased to be here. So I grew up in Fargo, North Sider,
1:29.0	went to Shanley, then went to NDSU, and then I had a 22-year career working for a mapping
1:35.5	company that started off as Navtech, then we moved to Nokia, and then here technologies.
1:39.9	And what I learned during that period was that there's a lot of disruptions that come with
1:44.6	technology and different change.
1:46.3	And as we thought about the mapping software of the future, we were really being geared
1:50.1	up for the autonomous world.
1:52.0	And as we thought about that, we were looking at the requirements, what it meant from a map
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