The Modern Acre - 194: Building a Successful Biologicals Company with Co-CEO's, Scott Uknes and Eric Ward

194: Building a Successful Biologicals Company with Co-CEO's, Scott Uknes and Eric Ward

10/19/21 • 39 min

Scott Uknes and Eric Ward are the co-founders and co-CEO's of AgBiome, a biotechnology company that is focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative biological and trait products for crop protection. Scott and Eric join the podcast to talk about their journey starting the company together and how they have successfully scaled and launched their first product, Howler. They also share how they make being "co-CEO's" work leading their team. Don't miss this one!

Show Notes: https://themodernacre.com/194

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193: Acre Insights - Produce Trends and the Latest on the Farm and Our CPG Journey

Another edition of Acre Insights! Tyler provides a quick update on Rivian, then Tim and Tyler discuss the latest at Nuss Farms and their journey developing a product to go direct-to-consumer. Plus, they discuss a recent article and study about the US importing tomatoes from Mexico. Tune in for some insights!

Show Notes: https://themodernacre.com/193

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195: Direct-to-Consumer Strategy with the Farmer’s Dog Co-Founder, Brett Podolsky

Interested in direct-to-consumer business? We are re-airing one of our most popular episodes to-date featuring the Farmer’s Dog.

Brett Podolsky joins The Modern Acre podcast to talk about how he helped create The Farmer’s Dog, a dog food company focused on using real, fresh food and delivering customized servings to their customers. Brett shares the vision behind the company and why using real food is so important to the brand. While the company is not directly involved in a agriculture at the farm level, there is SO much insight from building a direct-to-consumer business, cutting out middlemen, focus on high quality food, marketing, and more! Let us know what you think!

Show Notes: https://themodernacre.com/195