Agbioscience

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143. Indiana entrepreneur automating the almond industry Oct 04, 2021

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A once aspiring fashion designer, Anna Haldewang is now the founder and CEO of InsightTRAC based in Syracuse, Indiana. On this week's episode of the podcast, she joins Gerry Dick from Inside INdiana Business to talk finding agtech as a career, developing a Rover to remove mummies and navel orangeworms in almond orchards and her biggest lessons as an entrepreneur

142. Introducing the 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge Winner Sep 27, 2021

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Meet Team Regrow, the winners of the 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge, designed to inspire innovators to create software that makes it faster for farmers to aggregate complex data sets required to participate in Carbon markets. Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus talks with Manal Elarab, global head of business and product development at Regrow. They walk through their solution, collaborating with Indiana producers and what's next for their company after winning $25K from Purdue Foundry. A special thank you to the presenting sponsor of the Producer-Led Innovation Challenge: Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Indiana Soybean Alliance.

141. Robotics + giving consumers seed to shelf traceability Sep 20, 2021

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What if one day you purchased a bottle of wine from the store and a label on that bottle could trace back to where its grapes were grown? Blockchain technology of that kind isn't far away and it's being developed right here in Indiana. On this week's episode of the podcast, Gerry Dick with Inside INdiana Business is joined by Mont Handley and AJ Moran, the co-founders of Plantennas, a patented Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) sensor enabled, molded fiber, propagation pot and ancillary hardware/software system.

140. Field Atlas, one year later Sep 13, 2021

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Happy 1st birthday to Field Atlas! On this week's episode of the podcast, Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus is joined by Hannah McGee, a former Field Atlas ambassador and a recent college grad turned agbioscience professional. From Butler from Beck's Hybrids, Hannah talks about finding Field Atlas in 2020, her ambassadorship and opening the door to new opportunities for her peers on campus (as well as herself). Are you ready to connect with careers that make a difference and feed the world? Visit myfieldatlas.com.

139. AI and the evolution of animal fertility Aug 30, 2021

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For animal breeding and reproduction, the needle hasn't moved much in recent years...until now. On this week's episode of the podcast, Gerry Dick with Inside INdiana Business talks with Liane Hart, Founder and CEO of Verility, about their AI technology Fertile-Eyez. They dive into purposing human health technologies for animal health, building a business in Indiana's agtech ecosystem and advice for entrepreneurs with great ideas that need to materialize.

138. Innovation: the only thing that will never stop is change Aug 23, 2021

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Inari is a huge agbioscience success story in 2021, with new funding and partnerships being announced in the past few months. On this week's episode of the podcast, Gerry Dick with Inside INdiana Business is joined by Claudia Nari, Chief Product Officer at Inari. They talk change, from Claudia's career evolution and coming to Inari, and the constant evolution of innovation in agbioscience. Claudia also talks Inari's latest fundraising announcement, the company's unicorn status and the future of the Inari in Indiana.

137. Betting on a winning horse Aug 16, 2021

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It's been a busy summer for Owl Manor Medical as the Indiana-based company's equine horse care product line was acquired by global animal health company, Zoetis. On this week's episode, Gerry Dick with Inside INdiana Business is joined by Mark Schindel, Founder + CEO of Owl Manor. They talk regenerative medicine, entrepreneurship and the collaborative, innovative uptick happening in northeast Indiana.

136. Agtech: start with the problem and work backward Aug 09, 2021

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To create a solution to a problem or a problem for a solution? That is the question...with an obvious answer. On this week's episode of the podcast, Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus talks with Bret Sitzmann, Head of Grain at Solinftec, on their new grain marketing platform.

135. Ready for robots: Purdue NW project will streamline labor practices Aug 02, 2021

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Northwest Indiana is experiencing a big wave of innovation and a key piece of that comes from the campus of Purdue Northwest. On this week's episode, Gerry Dick with Inside INdiana Business is joined by Niaz Latif, dean of the College of Technology at Purdue Northwest. They talk about Project TRAVERSE, a $1 million funded effort to develop and test agtech solutions, the need for high-skilled workers to engineer robotics for remote planting and harvesting of crops and their partnership with Hammond-based Digital Crossroads.

134. Inspiring innovators to bring great ideas forward Jul 26, 2021

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Indiana's agbioscience sector is unmatched in bringing innovative minds together to solve critical issues facing production agriculture. On this week's episode, Gerry Dick with Inside INdiana Business is joined by John Hays, Global Marketing Manager for Bango Liquid Handling Products, to talk collaboration and the 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge. Stay up with the latest on this year's Challenge: www.agrinovusindiana.com/challenge.

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