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Barron's Streetwise
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Join the Wall Street Journal online October 12th for WSJ Pro Sustainable Business Forum |
| 0:05.8 | and take away practical advice on how to build a sustainability strategy that's right for your business. |
| 0:11.5 | From now until September 21st, you can save 25% on your ticket by registering at WSJ.com |
| 0:18.8 | slash Sustainable Business, no code required. That's WSJ.com slash Sustainable Business. |
| 0:25.9 | So, each part of your farming machinery, we want to be able to sell no matter what brand |
| 0:31.6 | equipment you have, we can upgrade it with new technology to give you new capability. |
| 0:35.6 | And our target is always one to two-year payback for the farmer. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello and welcome to the Baron Streetwise podcast. I'm Jack Howe. |
| 0:45.8 | And the voice you just heard, that's Eric Hansojia. He's the CEO of a company called Agco. |
| 0:52.5 | They make planters and sprayers and combine harvesters. And as you just heard, they make retrofit |
| 0:59.4 | products that you can use to teach old farm machines new tricks. That's important now because |
| 1:06.0 | farmers are suddenly flourishing. This might be the biggest technology way for agriculture since the |
| 1:12.5 | rise of mechanization. In a moment, we'll hear more from Eric and a Wall Street analyst and a |
| 1:18.4 | real estate executive. But mostly, we'll hear from farmers. It's time for a visit to Osage, Iowa. |
| 1:34.1 | Listening in is our audio producer, Jackson. Hi, Jackson. Hey, Jack. Two weeks ago in this podcast, |
| 1:39.6 | I said I was in Minneapolis working on a story for Barons and some listeners have tried to guess |
| 1:44.4 | was I visiting this or that company that's based in Minnesota. No, I wasn't. I was on my way to |
| 1:49.6 | talk with some farmers in Iowa. People of Minnesota, you have a lovely state. And I did visit that |
| 1:55.4 | Mall of America for my first time. You said you haven't been to Minnesota, right? No, never been to |
| 2:00.9 | Minnesota. Well, I have the Mall of America. It's about, I'm going to say 300 floors. That might be |
| 2:09.5 | I'm estimated taller than the Empire State Building, 300. I got lost a couple of times and there |
| 2:19.2 | might have been water two stores that repeated throughout the mall, but I did have a lovely |
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