Dirt Smart
Dirt Smart
Podcast Description
Dirt Smart brings bold conversations with the farmers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and change makers who are rethinking how food is grown, how land is cared for, and how technology is shaping the future of our food systems. No fluff. No jargon. Just bold ideas, hard-earned insights, and real-world stories from real people doing the work.
From soil health to ag tech, climate resilience to farm entrepreneurship, we dig into the challenges and breakthroughs shaping the future of food and the planet.
If you're a grower, a builder, or just someone who gives a damn — you're in the right place.
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Content Themes
The podcast centers around themes such as soil health, ag tech advancements, climate resilience, and farm entrepreneurship. Episodes delve into topics like the impact of technology on food systems and challenges faced by growers, illustrated by insights from guests like Matty Blomfield, CEO of Hectre, who discusses orchard management solutions.
Dirt Smart brings bold conversations with the farmers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and change makers who are rethinking how food is grown, how land is cared for, and how technology is shaping the future of our food systems. No fluff. No jargon. Just bold ideas, hard-earned insights, and real-world stories from real people doing the work.From soil health to ag tech, climate resilience to farm entrepreneurship, we dig into the challenges and breakthroughs shaping the future of food and the planet.If you’re a grower, a builder, or just someone who gives a damn — you’re in the right place.
Paul Mikesell is a visionary technologist and a serial founder who has set up multiple billion dollar businesses. He is now proving that robotics, AI and farming can co-evolve and at scale.
As the founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics he has built a company that is zapping billions of weeds without the need of herbicides, retrofitting tractors to be self-driving and redefining what productivity and sustainability mean on a farm. In this episode, we dig deep from pushcart prototype to a fleet eliminating 10 billion weeds globally, from pivoting product models to securing hundreds of millions in investment.
This is not just AgTech, this is a system transformation!
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