Kenny Malone
speaker
2,236 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Kenny Malone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes.
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I guess I'm benefiting from it, but it's certainly the universities and companies that actually own the IP to this stuff are also benefiting.
But I guess it is also true that there are Toms and Pete's behind some of these like very slick, plasticky, commercially looking inventions.
And and in those cases, in that case at least, they are trying to give growers uh of New Jersey for Tom and Pete a way out of the old commodities trap.
honestly, Tom and Pete's goal of helping New Jersey farmers here, this ended up going well beyond just inventing another tasty tomato for them to sell.
Yeah, as they worked on the Scarlet Sunrise, they noticed that one of their experimental tomato plants was really small, like like half the size of a normal plant, but was still yielding a similar quality of tomato fruit.
And what surprised us was that as excited as we were to find and eat and talk about the Scarlet Sunrise, Tom and Pete were clearly way more excited about this.
The more compact plants have a shorter ripening window, so fewer trips through the fields, plus more compact plants means like you just save money on ties and stuff.
They're excited because this is the kind of innovation that doesn't just help farmers a little, like it could completely change the economics of tomato growing for those farmers.
Why isn't there a Nobel Peace Prize for tomatoes specifically?
Uh Dan Patchman, what a joy to work with you.
Do you want to just share with folks what you've got going on over at the Spork Full?
Alright, that's wherever you find your podcasts, the Sporkful.
And uh if you enjoyed what you heard today, we have an extended version of our interview with agricultural economist Miguel Gomez, where you talk to him about the heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables.
We, Dan, you and I try to speculate what the next superstar product category could be.
Is it avocados?
Is it mangoes?
Where's it coming?
And you know, can can all of us get rich if we guess?
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