Agbioscience

138. AI and the evolution of animal fertility

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.

137. Innovation: the only thing that will never stop is change

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.

136. Betting on a winning horse

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.

135. Agtech: start with the problem and work backward

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.

134. Ready for robots: Purdue NW project will streamline labor practices

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.

133. Inspiring innovators to bring great ideas forward

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.

131. Getting the data right for Carbon markets

AgriNovus Indiana President and CEO Mitch Frazier chats with Kip Tom, U.S. Ambassador + CEO of Tom Farms, about carbon markets and the data challenges growers are facing ahead of the 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge.

130. Attention innovators: we’ve got a $25K data challenge for you

AgriNovus recently launched a $25,000 innovation challenge to the tech community to solve a critical data gap that prevents farmers from participating in Carbon markets, where companies purchase credits from farming operations that sequester Carbon. This week, AgriNovus president + CEO, Mitch Frazier, talks about the 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge with Courtney Kingery, CEO of Indiana Soybean Alliance and Indiana Corn Marketing Council as well as Larry Wilkinson, Noble County producer and ISA Director. To register your team, visit agrinovusindiana.com/challenge.

129. Investing in animal health innovation

Indiana's animal health + nutrition sector is fast-growing and ripe for innovation and collaboration in the coming years. The key question: how do entrepreneurs and startups in the space obtain funding to fuel that growth? On this week's episode of the podcast, AgriNovus President + CEO Mitch Frazier is joined by Julia Stephanus, Partner at Borealis Ventures. They talk bringing products to market, animal health as human health and Indiana's vast potential in the space.

129. Bring on the biosensors: combatting bovine respiratory disease

A Purdue researcher has received $1.4 million in funding for his groundbreaking work to produce a biosensor-based decision-making tool that will combat bovine respiratory disease. On this week's special episode, AgriNovus CEO Mitch Frazier is joined by Dr. Mohit Verma at Purdue University to talk about innovation in animal health and nutrition, its correlation to human health and bringing ideas to market.