Dirt Smart

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Dirt Smart

Ben Bardsley

12 episodes

3 days ago

Tyler Price is a Stanford educated CEO leading one of the largest fruit growing and packing companies in Washington State, Price Cold Storage and Packing Company. A fourth generation family business that's been in operation for nearly a century, Tyler is leading the company into the future with a state of the art facility, bold partnerships, and a relentless focus on quality. He's not just running a company, he's an industry leader, shaping the conversation around technology, food safety, and...

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Ep. #12 From Apple to Apples - Tyler Price

3 days ago

1 hour

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Ep. #11 Kiwi King - Steve Saunders

Steve Saunders has built businesses in almost every link in the horticulture chain - pre harvest, post harvest, branded produce, and innovative robotics. He's helped entrepreneurs, growers, scientists, and investors connect long before agricultural robotics even entered the picture. Now, Steve is most famed for his business, Robotics Plus, a company at the forefront in developing innovative robotics within the agriculture industry. He's helped to scale the business globally and has recently m...

1 week ago

48 minutes

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Ep. #10 Vineyard Visionary - Caine Thompson

Caine Thompson is Head of Sustainability at O'Neill Vintners and Distillers. A regenerative wine pioneer who is rewriting what sustainability looks like in viticulture, Caine is helping O'Neill steward their grapes toward a future where wine is not only world class, but also climate positive. He has become one of the most influential voices in regenerative wine. A New Zealand born viticulturist, he has also co-founded the global One Block Challenge, a program aimed at de-risking the transitio...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Ep. #9 Billion Dollar Founder - Paul Mikesell

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 fle...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 18 minutes

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Ep. #8 Hop Giant - Mike Roy

Michael (Mike) Roy is a farmer who leads a century-old hop farming business in Yakima, Washington and is one of the largest independent hop growers in the world. What started as a ten acre farm in 1907, Roy Farms is trusted among the smallest craft outfits to the largest brewery giants. This episode dives into Mike's journey in agriculture, the evolution of the hop industry, and the importance of sustainability and innovation in farming. Mike shares insights on navigating family business dyna...

1 month ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Ep. #7 Regen Cowboy - Austin Allred

Austin Allred runs Royal Family Farms in Washington State, a 20,000 acre operation and home to the largest worm farm in the world. His 7.5 acre bio-filtration worm system processes nearly 400,000 gallons of wastewater every day, recycling into clean irrigation water. and producing valuable worm castings that go straight back into their soils. Royal dairy produces 90,000 gallons of milk and 70,000 pounds of meat every single day. They grow hundreds of thousands of tons of apples, peas, cherrie...

1 month ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Ep. #6 Hops, Beer & Cannabis Pioneer - Kevin Smith

Kevin "Smitty" Smith co-founded Bale Breaker, one of the largest independent craft breweries in North America—and the only commercial brewery in the world located in the middle of his family’s hop farm, Loftus Ranches. A true product innovator, Kevin works at the intersection of farming, brewing, cannabis, and product development. Rooted in his farming heritage, his ventures span from soil to sip, including co-founding Sun Gaze, a cannabis-infused seltzer. In this episode, we dive into the ev...

1 month ago

1 hour 16 minutes

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Ep. #5 Rockstar Farmer - Cody Beebe

Cody Beebe is a multifaceted individual who has transitioned from a career in music to founding a video marketing company to becoming a regenerative farmer. The conversation explores Cody's unique journey, the challenges faced by independent musicians, the impact of AI in the music industry, and the importance of storytelling in connecting farmers with consumers. His journey weaves together music, land, content, entrepreneurship, health, and identity. He has become a passionate advocate for ...

1 month ago

1 hour 30 minutes

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Ep. #4 UK Wine Expert - Ed Mansel Lewis

Recognized as one of the most influential figures in UK wine, Ed Mansel Lewis leads the viticulture team at Knight Frank. With a rare blend of expertise across finance, wine, land, and farming, Ed advises on some of the UK’s most dynamic vineyard ventures. In this episode, we explore the economics behind vineyards, emerging terroir trends, the role of regenerative agriculture, and how climate, culture, and capital are collectively redrawing the map of UK viticulture. Learn more about Knight...

1 month ago

51 minutes

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Ep. #3 Global Cherry King - Matt Hancock

Known across the industry as the Cherry King, Matt Hancock founded and led Norton Folgate, one of the UK's most influential produce businesses. From cherries to citrus, grapes to rhubarb, Matt spent decades mastering the brutal beauty of the fresh supply chain - where taste, timing, and trust is everything. Matt continues to advise the next generation of operators, helping them understand what it really takes to get fresh produce from farm to shelf. In this episode we dive into cherries, fr...

2 months ago

43 minutes

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Ep. #2 World Class Fruit Grower - Sean Gilbert

Sean Gilbert is the CEO of Gilbert Fruit, one of the largest cherry and apple producers in North America. His team is managing thousands of acres, huge labor forces, and a global supply chain. Learn more about Gilbert Fruit: https://www.gilbertfruit.com/ This episode is brought to you by BX, a farming intelligence platform helping farming enterprises turn their data into actionable insights. https://bx.tech/

2 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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Ep. #1 Global Agtech Entrepreneur - Matty Blomfield

Matty Blomfield is the CEO of Hectre, a world-leading orchard management and fruit sizing platform helping growers around the world improve productivity, fruit quality, and profitability. Learn more about Hectre https://hectre.com/ This episode is brought to you by BX, a farming intelligence platform helping farming enterprises turn their data into actionable insights. https://bx.tech/

2 months ago

1 hour 17 minutes