Voices of the Valley

By Western Growers

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Do you want to go behind the sciences and learn about how the food gets on your table? Hear about the complex world of agricultural policy, food safety, crop protection, disease control and more from the most influential people working in farming. Be sure to tune in each week as we delve deeper into the inner workings of our food system.

Episode Date
Innovations in Cross-Border Health Care for Ag Workers
Apr 17, 2024
The Nuts and Bolts of Almonds with Stuart Woolf, President and CEO of Woolf Farming & Processing
Apr 09, 2024
Megan Kavanaugh from Bio S.I. Talks About the Amazing World That Exists in the Soil on Voices of the Valley
Apr 03, 2024
What Fresh Produce Does a Food Safety Scientist Buy for Their Kids?
Mar 26, 2024
Katie Chiapuzio from Braga Fresh on How Bees Benefit Produce
Mar 20, 2024
Do You Really Know Where Your Food Comes From?
Jan 17, 2024
2024 Look Ahead: Agriculture’s Biggest Challenges
Jan 09, 2024
How Bayer’s Dr. Frank Wong Overcame His Skepticism About Biologicals
Jun 06, 2023
Asking the Right Questions with Josh Ruiz, Senior Director of Ag Technology and Innovation, on Voices of the Valley
May 30, 2023
Rabo Research's David Magaña on a Global Approach to Consumer Desires
May 23, 2023
Farmers are Entrepreneurs: Citi’s Adam Bergman Talks Agtech
May 16, 2023
Alex Cochran Discusses the Value of Biologicals in Agriculture
May 09, 2023
Christine Birdsong, Undersecretary for the CDFA, Talks Sustainable Pest Management Solutions on This Week’s Voices of the Valley
May 02, 2023
Amazon Web Services’ Elizabeth Fastiggi on Guiding the Industry to be More Predictive with Agtech Innovation
Apr 25, 2023
Hernan Hernandez on Working to Give Farmworkers a Voice in Politics and Policy
Apr 18, 2023
Ian LeMay, President of the California Fresh Fruit Association, on how Agtech Bolsters Ag Labor
Apr 04, 2023
Bountiful Founder and CEO Megan Nunes Wants to Use Satellites to Revolutionize Farming
Mar 28, 2023
Adrian Percy, Executive Director of the North Carolina Plant Science Initiative, Talks About the Exciting Rise of Automated Farm Equipment
Mar 21, 2023
The Future of Sustainable Desalination
Mar 07, 2023
Radicle Growth CEO and Managing Partner Kirk Haney on the Secret to Successful Agtech Investing
Feb 21, 2023
Tom Mulholland and the Bottom Line of Agriculture – Productivity
Feb 14, 2023
Stuart Woolf: Agtech from Apple Computers to Almonds
Feb 07, 2023
Belinda Clarke and the Many Ways Science Can Help Growers Adapt
Jan 31, 2023
Seana Day: How Farmers Can Use Technology to Make Financially Sound Decisions
Jan 24, 2023
Simon Pearson from The Lincoln Institute of Agri-Food Technology Talks Agtech Solutions on a Global Scale
Jan 17, 2023
Farm from a Box’s Brandi DeCarli on Creating Local Food Access Through Entrepreneurship
Jan 03, 2023
Central Valley Foundation CEO and Former Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin: Focused on a Better Future
Dec 28, 2022
Netafim’s President and CEO Mike Hemman Discusses How Growers Can Respond to California’s Record Drought
Dec 20, 2022
Eurofins U.S. Chief Science Officer Joelle Mosso on Why Testing Can't Solve Food Safety Problems
Dec 13, 2022
Carl Casale of Ospraie Ag Science on Doing More With Less
Dec 06, 2022
Trimble's Mike Dentinger on Strategies to Reach the Finish Line with Global Harvest Automation
Nov 29, 2022
The Produce Moms' Lori Taylor on Educating Consumers About Food and Farming
Nov 01, 2022
Stout CEO Brent Shedd Explores Artificial Intelligence in Ag
Oct 25, 2022
Global Competition Requires Urgent Supply Chain Tech Innovation
Oct 18, 2022
Jack Vessey on the Pressing Need to Implement Technology in Desert Agriculture
Oct 11, 2022
Linking Small Farmers and Scientists on the International Stage
Sep 27, 2022
Genius Beehives with Dick Rogers, Entomologist at Bayer Crop Science
Sep 20, 2022
Hank Giclas Tribute, Part Two
Sep 13, 2022
Remembering Hank Giclas, Part One
Sep 06, 2022
Sun World CEO David Marguleas Explains the Successful Strategies Behind a New Product Launch
Aug 30, 2022
New Zealand Forecasts the Future of Agriculture Amid Climate Change
Aug 23, 2022
En Solucion and Seeking the Food Safety Holy Grail
Aug 15, 2022
Grimmway Farms' Jeff Morrison on Using Business Acumen to Direct Agtech Investments
Aug 09, 2022
Tom Nunes and Monitoring the Speed of Technology Adoption on the Farm
Jul 19, 2022
Albert Keck, Pt. 2: It's Time to Stop Just Preaching to the Choir About Ag
Jul 12, 2022
Hadley Date Gardens President and Western Growers Chair Albert Keck on the Future of Specialty Crops
Jul 05, 2022
The Yield Lab and the Exponential Growth Potential of Latin America
Jun 29, 2022
Food Safety and Using Automation to Mitigate Risk
Jun 21, 2022
Space AG and the Secret to Producing More Food with Less Effort
Jun 14, 2022
Farmer's Business Network and the Power of a Big Idea for Small Farmers
May 24, 2022
Verdant Robotics Pt. 2: Turning Fieldworkers Into Data Workers
May 17, 2022
Verdant Robotics and the Secret to Making Farmers Superhuman, Pt. 1
May 10, 2022
Don Cameron on How Innovation and Automation Can Boost California Agriculture
May 03, 2022
Agtech's Role in Combating Climate Change
Apr 26, 2022
Farming's Secret Weapon: California Community Colleges
Apr 19, 2022
Cybersecurity and the Virtual Threats to Farming
Apr 12, 2022
Working at the Digital Farm of the Future
Apr 05, 2022
AI on the Farm: Sensing What Humans Can't
Mar 29, 2022
Using Social Media to Educate the Masses about Agriculture
Mar 22, 2022
Navigating Climate Change: A Guide on How to Use Technology to Foster Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Mar 16, 2022
Are Farm Robots Making a Dent in the Agriculture Labor Gap?
Mar 09, 2022
To Advance Food Safety, Get Out of the Box
Mar 01, 2022
AG Kawamura [Part 2]: Forging Uncommon Collaborations to Solve World Hunger
Feb 22, 2022
AG Kawamura [Part 1]: Dissecting the 21st Century Ag Renaissance
Feb 16, 2022
How to Establish Trust When it Comes to Food Safety
Feb 08, 2022
Lemons and Oranges and Limes, Oh My!
Feb 02, 2022
Inside the Brave New World of Pest Management
Jan 25, 2022
How to Make Tech Adoption Go from Revolution to Evolution
Jan 18, 2022
When NASA and Farming Collide
Jan 11, 2022
Changing the Farm Narrative through Innovation & Workforce Development
Jan 04, 2022
Intersection of Ag and Tech: Emerging Trends in 2022
Dec 28, 2021
Building Communities for Resuscitating Water Conservation
Dec 22, 2021
How to Become an Agtech Impact Rainmaker
Dec 14, 2021
The Interplay Between Water, Tech and Regulation
Dec 07, 2021
The Next Wave of AgTech: Plant Probiotics
Nov 30, 2021
Dawn of the Drones: Spraying, Pollination and Imaging
Nov 23, 2021
Organic Farming: Selling Health, Well-Being and Lifestyle
Nov 16, 2021
Leveraging Military Expertise to Grow a Startup
Nov 09, 2021
Hands-Free is the Only Way to Be
Nov 02, 2021
What Happens When Your Co-Worker is a Robot?
Oct 26, 2021
Almond Evolution: Self-Pollinating Varieties, Rootstock Gene Editing, Labor-Saving Tech
Oct 19, 2021
Tackling Food Waste: Tech as the Watchdog of Quality Control
Oct 12, 2021
Building Autonomous Farm Tractors…and Totally Winning
Oct 05, 2021
Rise of the City Bee: Building Urban Bee Farms
Sep 21, 2021
Peter Wren-Hilton of Wharf42/Agritech New Zealand
Jun 30, 2021
Tim York of California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement
Jun 22, 2021
Walt Duflock of Western Growers and Neill Callis of Turlock Fruit Company
Jun 17, 2021
Neill Callis of Turlock Fruit Company and Walt Duflock of Western Growers
Jun 10, 2021
Amy Tomlinson of Concentric Power
Jun 01, 2021
Candace Wilson of GreenVenus
May 24, 2021
Hank Giclas of Western Growers
Jun 30, 2020
Rodrigo Nieto Gómez of Naval Postgraduate School
Apr 22, 2020
Carol Snyder of Trimble Inc.
Mar 05, 2020
Dennis Donohue of WG Center for Innovation and Technology
Feb 19, 2020
Brian Curtis of Concentric Power
Jan 27, 2020
Richard Strafehl of Healthy Cow Corporation
Jan 22, 2020
Jon King and Robert Forsythe of Milk Moovement
Jan 14, 2020
Martha Montoya of AgTools (part 2)
Dec 31, 2019
Martha Montoya of AgTools (part 1)
Dec 26, 2019
Aaron Archibald of CO2 GRO Inc.
Dec 20, 2019
Abby Taylor-Silva of Grower-Shipper Association (part 2)
Dec 13, 2019
Abby Taylor-Silva of Grower-Shipper Association (part 1)
Dec 04, 2019
Brian Dawson of HarvestPort (part 2)
Nov 27, 2019
Brian Dawson of HarvestPort (part 1)
Nov 14, 2019
Roi Adar of RootsTalk
Nov 06, 2019
Genevieve Griffin-George of PICMI
Oct 24, 2019
John McPherson of rfxcel
Oct 15, 2019
Elliot Jaramillo of Concept Clean Energy
Oct 11, 2019
Jamie Bacher of Boost Biomes
Oct 01, 2019
Jason Mellow of Croptracker, Inc.
Sep 25, 2019
Natasha Shields of Nuffield Australia Farming Scholars
Sep 17, 2019
Harry Ferdon of SWIIM System
Jul 25, 2019
U.S. AG Solutions
Jul 18, 2019
Tensorfield Agriculture
Jul 11, 2019
John Skardon of Tailwater Systems
Jul 01, 2019
Amy Wu of From Farms to Incubators
Jun 03, 2019
Harrison Enright of iTradeNetwork
May 21, 2019
Virginia Corless of Novihum Technologies
May 14, 2019
Mike Dodson of Pago
May 07, 2019
Richard De Andrade of Solare Trace Inc.
Apr 30, 2019
Aaron Gobin of AgVoice
Apr 17, 2019
Charles McGregor of GeoVisual Analytics
Apr 01, 2019
Jesse Arteaga of Ganaz
Mar 26, 2019
Pádraig Whelan of ApisProtect
Mar 14, 2019
Hank Giclas of Western Growers
Mar 06, 2019
Connor Cunningham of WaterBit
Jan 14, 2019
Eyal Amit of FieldIn
Jan 07, 2019
Dan Reighn of iTrade Network
Nov 29, 2018
Willard Lewallen of Hartnell College
Nov 20, 2018
Chris Becerra of Terrapin Systems
Nov 06, 2018
Capp Culver of California Safe Soil
Oct 23, 2018
Ruchit Garg of Harvesting
Oct 15, 2018
Martha Montoya at AgTools
Oct 08, 2018
David Moore & Cesar Martin at MagGrow
Oct 01, 2018
Jim Stottlemyre at UNIBEST
Sep 24, 2018
Kevin Payne of Zest Labs, Inc.
Sep 11, 2018
Aidan Mouat of Hazel Technologies, Inc.
Aug 28, 2018
Anita Garcia of CSU Monterey Bay
Aug 20, 2018
Bruce Rasa of AgVoice
Aug 14, 2018
Nora La Torre of Ganaz
Aug 06, 2018
Diane Wetherington of iFood Decision Sciences
Jul 31, 2018
Raja Ramachandran of Ripe.io
Jul 24, 2018
Brian Curtis of Concentric Power
Jul 16, 2018
Colin Brown of TracMap
Jul 09, 2018
Abby Taylor-Silva of Grower-Shipper Association of Central California
Jul 02, 2018
Nathan Dorn of Food Origins
Jun 26, 2018
Patrick Zelaya of HeavyConnect
Jun 18, 2018
Drew Ketelsen of HMC Farms
Jun 11, 2018
Robert McBride of Boost Biomes
Jun 04, 2018
Colby Pereira of Costa Farms
Jun 01, 2018
Kevin France of SWIIM Systems
Jun 01, 2018
Sean Duncan of Duncan Family Farms
Jun 01, 2018