The Future of Agriculture: A Visit with Tim Hammerich

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Tim Hammerich is the founder of AgGrad, an agribusiness recruiting company, and the host of the Future of Agriculture podcast. He joins Zach Johnson and Mitchell Hora to talk about the latest innovations in farming, the changing skill sets agriculture demands, and the essential role of data management in sustainable ag. They also discuss the reasons why it’s so hard to recruit young people into ag and why more farmers should think of themselves as CEOs.

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0:00.0	Support for fieldwork is provided by Manitou Fund.
0:12.0	Fake clapper, pen drop, ready, and...
0:15.0	Hey, everyone, this is Fieldwork. My name is Mitchell Hora. I'm a farmer from Iowa.
0:21.0	And I, of course, am Zach Johnson, and I farm in Minnesota.
0:24.2	Do we want to actually roll with this, or are we going to start from the top again?
0:27.3	We're going to roll with it.
0:28.1	You're not going to let me back out of that.
0:29.5	We are into it.
0:30.7	There is no turning back.
0:32.2	Okay.
0:32.8	No editing allowed.
0:34.1	Okay. Well, this is the podcast where we talk about what is working, what is not
0:38.6	in sustainable agriculture. Well, that's what the script says, but usually we just kind of talk
0:43.6	about all kinds of rooms. We kind of wing it. We go off the rails. Today we're going to talk
0:46.9	with a fellow podcaster, Tim Hammerich. Tim is the host of the future of agriculture podcast where they explore the people companies
0:56.7	and the ideas shaping the future of agribusiness.
0:59.6	Yeah, Tim has multiple different things going on.
1:02.6	And with his company and stuff, too, he does some recruitment kind of things.
1:05.8	And he's really got his finger, you know, on the pulse of the latest innovations in the ag world.
1:11.5	Yeah, he's also one of the founders of ag grad. That is a company that connects job seekers and employers
1:17.0	in the agribusiness world. So, yeah, with those two fields of expertise, we really wanted to talk
1:22.9	to Tim about what skills that people are going to need on the farm in the next 5, 10, 20 years,
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