395: Understanding Crop Inputs - Topsoil Series with Ariel Patton
Release Date: 03/07/2025
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This month, Tim and Tyler talk with Ariel about her latest Topsoil edition - "The price is right (even when it's low) - A framework for commodity crop prices in agriculture."
Ariel Patton is the creator of Topsoil, a newsletter bringing you monthly frameworks to help make sense of agriculture, at just the right depth. Ariel has focused her career on driving digital transformation of agriculture to help farmers manage their businesses more profitably and sustainably at Monsanto, Granular, Corteva, Mineral, and now, Innerplant.
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This episode is presented by MyLand. Learn more HERE.
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Links
- Topsoil - https://topsoil.substack.com
- Ariel on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielpatton/
- AgList - https://aglist.com