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Nate Belcher

πŸ‘€ Speaker
620 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We do corn.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

That's what we do best.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

Our other co-founder is a tech specialist.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

He doesn't know much about ag, right?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

And we don't need him to know much about that.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We need him to know technology and software development better than anyone.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

I am a, you know, I try to think of myself as a good salesman, but I'm also very passionate in regenerative ag, sustainable farming at scale.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

And by that, I mean, there's two components of sustainable farming, right?

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So there's like what people think of as cover cropping and no-till and kind of your very objective ones.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

But what I'm also passionate about is and what I've seen over the last 15 years, a farmer that is profitable can afford to run their farm differently with a more.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

I'm going to use the word regenerative for lack of better term, but throw whatever term in there you want.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

More ROI focused, more soil health focused.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

much better than a farmer that is strapped to the gills and leverage just trying to get by.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

I mean, you guys know this.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

If you're around this, a farmer that is just trying to make their payments, you're just going to stick to what you're doing because you know you can squeeze a little bit out of it versus taking some risk, trying things new.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

So

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We're very passionate, and that's part of why we got into the corn side of things was we can help these farmers be profitable at scale.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

You know, 90 million acres of corn out there.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

We don't expect to be on all of them, but if we can get on some of those corn acres, help a farmer be more profitable, all of a sudden they're making decisions that are better for soil health, better for their animals, better for ROI instead of just profit.

Farm4Profit Podcast
Off-Patent Genetics leading to Lower Costs - Changing Seed Industry

bushel per acre focused.