Your Outsourced Ag CTO featuring Pattern Ag
Pattern Ag predicts next season’s risks to avoid costly crop protection and fertility mistakes by detecting the most damaging pests and pathogens in your field.
By analyzing soil biology, Pattern Ag can predict key field agronomic outcomes with 90% confidence before the season starts. This accuracy and advanced timing unlocks farm profitability by enabling precise product placement for your key agronomic inputs.
Overall, the company envisions a future where conventional agricultural inputs are enhanced and eventually replaced by precision microbiome engineering, improving farm productivity and sustainability.
Your Outsourced Ag CTO featuring EarthOptics
EarthOptics is a soil data measurement and mapping company. The companies technologies create accurate, real-time data maps – including compaction, carbon, moisture, nutrients and more – that give you all the insights you need to unlock the full potential of soil.
Unlike conventional testing, EarthOptics is able to deliver comprehensive insights with significantly fewer samples – and at much lower cost.
EarthOptics proprietary sensor technology and data analytics make intelligent soil data accessible on a large scale, for increased agricultural yields and carbon market acceleration.
Your Outsourced Ag CTO featuring Harpe Bioherbicide
Kevin Van Trump and Carter Williams sit down with Chad Brommer and Daniel Pepitone at Harpe Bioherbicide to discuss thoughts on current investments with Benson Hill, soybean demand moving forward, new ethanol opportunities, acres being converted to solar, Kevin’s favorite commodity trades right now, a natural way to eliminate resistant weeds, why growers will need this technology, when the product will hit the market, the biggest moments in company history to date, opportunities for growers to try the product, and closing a round with ADM as the largest investor. There are also lots of other great topics discussed. This is an episode you don’t want to miss!
Your Outsourced Ag CTO featuring HitchPin
Kevin Van Trump and Carter Williams sit down with Trevor McKeeman, CEO at HitchPin, to discuss introduction to Your Outsourced Ag CTO, iSelect’s most exciting current investments, HitchPin’s first ever customer, providing producers with technology to build their own storefront, thinking about locational as well as transactional businesses, listings for over $1 million on the platform, some of the biggest concerns in the ag supply chain, and why hay is gaining the most traction with HitchPin. There are also lots of other great topics discussed. This is an episode you don’t want to miss!
The Future of Biologicals and What Producers Should Be Doing Next
Kevin Van Trump & Jordan Van Trump sit down with Dave Stark, President of Agriculture at Holganix; Mitch Eviston, CEO at Meristem; Bodie Kitchel, National Director of Agronomy at Biodyne; and Todd Loechler with The Van Trump Report to discuss everything happening in biologicals right now and what the space looks like moving forward.
Together we cover a lot of great topics and get into a great conversation about tons of questions growers are asking surrounding the topic of biologicals right now and what producers can start doing to better maximize the product. Keep in mind, we are seeing tons of results from many different companies how biologicals are reducing input costs, increasing soil health, changing tillage practices, advancing disease management, adjusting weed pressure, and helping producers better market carbon. This podcast is definitely worth the listen and it certainly provides tons of great insight for any industry. I should note, the office has already started to prepare for FARMCON, so this will be our last webinar for 2021. We will try to pick back up with these towards the end of January. Hope you all enjoyed them and learned a lot! Our goal is to keep advancing the ball for the next generation in 2022!
Transportation Forecast… The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Kevin Van Trump & Jordan Van Trump sit down with Tom Williamson, Owner at Transportation Consultants Co; Mike Wood, President at Cline Wood Agency; Nate Asplund, President at Columbia Strategic Consulting Group; and Todd Loechler with The Van Trump Report to discuss everything happening in transportation right now and what the space looks like moving forward.
Together we cover a lot of great topics and get into a great conversation about all the issues surrounding transportation right now in the United States as well as other countries. Keep in mind, we touch on some ag specific transportation, but we also cover a lot of macro thoughts surrounding the trucking industry, railroads, warehousing, and the US ports. This podcast is definitely worth the listen and it certainly provides tons of great insight for any industry. As many of you already know, I tend to be pretty optimistic in almost every situation. After this conversation, I feel like there are many things to worry about surrounding the transportation space moving forward in 2022 and it doesn’t feel like it is getting any better…
Next Week will we be releasing a webinar that is focused on “biologicals” with several gurus from inside the space. Please enjoy! We are trying to bring lots of great NEW insight…
Future of the Dairy Industry and Will Market Share Be Taken By Alternative Options Moving Forward?
Kevin Van Trump & Jordan Van Trump sit down with Justin Ohlde, Owner at Ohlde Dairy; Nathan Kells, Owner at Circle Bar Heifer Ranch; and Todd Loechler with The Van Trump Report to discuss everything surrounding the future of the dairy industry and if we see market share being taken from alternative options like almond, soy, and oats moving forward. Keep in mind, we initially had a few beef guys scheduled to be on the call, but had some last-minute cancelations.
Together we cover a lot of great topics and get into a great conversation about how producers can best transition their operations for the next generation as more and more alternative options come on the market. Keep in mind, both of our guests have over 10,000 head and +50 employees.
Remember, our entire objective in this Van Trump Farms podcast series is trying to search and find people who have new ideas and thoughts that will help us get our farms on the right track for future generations. None of us want to work this hard to leave a dying entity to our kids. Instead, we want to leave them with something that we have on the right track for the future and out ahead of the next big set of hurdles. This podcast is definitely worth the listen and it certainly provides some ideas and strategies that can be put in place today and make a huge difference for our future generations. I also love the fact the group provides some insight and details about pitfalls and problems they have experienced along their journey. Good stuff!!!
Next Week will we be releasing a webinar that is focused on “transportation” with several gurus from inside the space. Please enjoy! We are trying to bring lots of great NEW insight…
The REAL Scoop on Regenerative Agriculture… from REAL Producers Making it Work and Banking Good Profits!
Kevin Van Trump & Jordan Van Trump sit down with Rick Clark, Owner at Clark Land and Cattle; Mitchell Hora, Founder & CEO at Continuum Ag; Ray Archuleta, Founder of Soil Health Academy; Cristian Barcan, VP of Sustainability & Industry Affairs at Rabo AgriFinance; Melissa Nelson, Owner at Field Scientist at Performance Crop Research & Co-Owner at South Bend Industrial Hemp; and Todd Loechler with The Van Trump Report to discuss everything surrounding regenerative agriculture, reducing input costs, and the benefits of using a cover crop. Overall, the group covers a lot of great topics in this conversation and we get into a great debate about how a producer transitions into regenerative agriculture at scale. Definitely worth the listen and certainly provides some ideas as well as potential pitfalls from producers who are putting regenerative agriculture practices in place today!
Next Week will we be releasing a webinar that is focused on cattle with several guru’s from inside the space. Please enjoy! We are trying to bring lots of great NEW insight…
Where Are The Premiums and Specialty Crops on the Horizon
Kevin Van Trump & Jordan Van Trump sit down with Matt Crisp with Benson Hill, Gil Shalev with Equi-nom, Steve McKaskle with McKaskle Family Farm & Braggadocio Rice Mill, and Todd Loechler with The Van Trump Report to discuss everything surrounding where producers can start to find premiums and specialty crops becoming more popular on the marketplace moving forward. Overall, we covered a lot of great topics in this discussion and even brought up a very interesting subject about the idea of climate-friendly rice. Definitely worth the listen and certainly one way to potentially pivot from the traditional farm.
For anyone interested in trying non-GMO soybeans in 2022, please call 816-876-6888 or email jordan@farmdirection.com and we can get you pointed in the right direction. Some of the more popular varieties with seed still available for 2022 include 2.3, 3.7, 3.8, and 4.4 maturity zones. Keep in mind, the seed is FREE and treatment is FREE as well if you sign up before the end of the month.
Next Week will we be releasing a webinar about regenerative agriculture with several guru’s from inside the space to help producers understand if it is worth the extra work or not. Please enjoy! Lots of great NEW insight…
Can Carbon Credits Add An Additional Revenue Stream To Your Operation?
Kevin Van Trump & Jordan Van Trump sit down with Robert Herrington with Prairie Foods, Kyle Mehmen with MBS Family Farms, Todd Loechler with The Van Trump Report, Ben Gordon with Corteva Agriscience, Caleb Smith with Agoro Carbon Alliance, and Tom Daniel with Nutrien Ag to discuss everything surrounding carbon credits and what producers should be doing next. Keep in mind, this webinar starts off a little slow with some basic questions, but make sure to stick around till at 60 minutes in when the conversation heats up a bit. Overall, it was a great conversation and definitely worth listening to!
Next Week will we be releasing a webinar about specialty crops with several guru’s from inside the space helping to bring more premiums to the producer. Please enjoy! Lot of great NEW insight…