AgriNovus Indiana

Sandra Vijn

Managing Director, Kipster US

405. Sandra Vijn on Kipster US' partnership with MPS Eggs, consumer transparency + revolutionizing sustainable food production

For more than 100 years, Ingredion has been providing the world ingredient solutions. From sweeteners to starches, that type of innovation has to be grounded in a consumer-forward attitude and understand what comes next in the food industry – all around the world. Today we are joined by Eric Seip, SVP of Global Operations and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Ingredion, to explore global ingredients in more than 120 countries across 60 diverse sectors and how they stay on the cutting edge of providing innovative solutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Highlights include:&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul><li>What Ingredion does and who they aim to serve through innovation&nbsp;</li><li>Common gaps and challenges emerging for customers across their food and beverage portfolio&nbsp;</li><li>How Eric sees Ingredion helping to advance Food is Health&nbsp;</li><li>Consumer preferences shifting and how those translate into operational and R&amp;D priorities&nbsp;</li><li>Ingredion’s recent $100 million investment in its Indianapolis facility, what it entails, the capabilities it adds and why now&nbsp;</li><li>What this upgrade to the Indianapolis locate will differentiate from their competitors or others in the space&nbsp;</li><li>What technologies Eric believes have the biggest potential to transform how Ingredion innovates in the future&nbsp;</li><li>The food value chain, texture and challenges that have risen in recent years – and how Ingredion has found themselves adapting through headwinds to build resilience&nbsp;</li><li>Ingredion’s perspective on partnerships and how they’re used to drive outcomes forward&nbsp;</li><li>The relationship with the farmer and what that means to the Ingredion innovation portfolio&nbsp;</li><li>Biggest challenges and opportunities facing the food ingredients industry&nbsp;</li><li>What has Eric most excited for Ingredion in the future&nbsp;</li></ul>

Eric Seip

SVP, Global Operations and Chief Supply Chain Officer, Ingredion

For more than 100 years, Ingredion has been providing the world ingredient solutions. From sweeteners to starches, that type of innovation has to be grounded in a consumer-forward attitude and understand what comes next in the food industry – all around the world. Today we are joined by Eric Seip, SVP of Global Operations and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Ingredion, to explore global ingredients in more than 120 countries across 60 diverse sectors and how they stay on the cutting edge of providing innovative solutions.  

407. Ingredion’s Eric Seip on advancing food is health, investing in Indianapolis + ingredient innovation to meet an evolving consumer

So much can happen in a year – transformative change can happen in 70. From applied research to precision fermentation, United Animal Health has continued to accelerate innovation and growth of its portfolio on behalf of producers over their seven decades of business. This week, we are joined by COO Trent Torrance to cover it all – joint ventures, animal nutrition, food is health, artificial intelligence and beyond. Highlights include:&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>United Animal Health’s pursuit to grow and serve a broader range of agriculture and food production&nbsp;</li><li>Some unique challenges and emerging issues that they’re trying to get ahead of on behalf of producers&nbsp;</li><li>The state of discussion with producers United Animal Health works with and how they feel about the year ahead&nbsp;</li><li>How their investment in applied research has defined and differentiated them as a company&nbsp;</li><li>Trent’s thoughts on the biggest opportunities for transformational change in food production&nbsp;</li><li>The critical intersection of animal and human health – and United Animal Health’s role in that space&nbsp;</li><li>What seventy years of business and longevity can bring to a company, Trent’s thoughts on the future of United Animal Health and their biggest untapped potential to date&nbsp;</li><li>How artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an additive role to the work they’re doing&nbsp;</li><li>United Animal Health’s focus on joint ventures and striking balance between internal validation and seeking collaboration without outside partners&nbsp;</li><li>What’s ahead for United Animal Health in 2026&nbsp;</li></ul>

Trent Torrance

COO, United Animal Health

So much can happen in a year – transformative change can happen in 70. From applied research to precision fermentation, United Animal Health has continued to accelerate innovation and growth of its portfolio on behalf of producers over their seven decades of business. This week, we are joined by COO Trent Torrance to cover it all – joint ventures, animal nutrition, food is health, artificial intelligence and beyond.

406. United Animal Health’s Trent Torrance on transforming food production, food is health + innovative collaborations driving impact

From gene editing to food is health and consumer education to bioinnovation, we’ve had no shortage of amazing conversations on the podcast this year. This episode is a celebration of some of your favorite guests combined into one ultimate audio experience. And let’s face it, you have the holiday windshield time for this podcast. Don’t you?&nbsp; Featuring the following guests:&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>Wendy Srnic, Corteva Agriscience&nbsp;</li><li>Jay Hulbert, Ag Alumni Seed (Retired)&nbsp;</li><li>Ronda Hamm, Conner Prairie’s Food, Farm and Energy Experience&nbsp;</li><li>Mike Jacob, TerraForce&nbsp;</li><li>Mark Warner, Liberation Bioindustries&nbsp;</li><li>Ed Fish, Bay State Milling&nbsp;</li><li>Sarah Glaven, Princeton University’s Andlinger Center&nbsp;</li><li>Aaron Schacht, BiomEdit&nbsp;</li><li>Christy Wright, AgriNovus&nbsp;</li><li> </li></ul>We can’t wait to bring you even more fantastic Agbioscience content in 2026! Season 9 starts January 12.&nbsp;

From gene editing to food is health and consumer education to bioinnovation, we’ve had no shortage of amazing conversations on the podcast this year. This episode is a celebration of some of your favorite guests combined into one ultimate audio experience. And let’s face it, you have the holiday windshield time for this podcast. Don’t you? 

Featuring the following guests:  
Wendy Srnic, Corteva Agriscience 
Jay Hulbert, Ag Alumni Seed (Retired) 
Ronda Hamm, Conner Prairie’s Food, Farm and Energy Experience 
Mike Jacob, TerraForce 
Mark Warner, Liberation Bioindustries 
Ed Fish, Bay State Milling 
Sarah Glaven, Princeton University’s Andlinger Center 
Aaron Schacht, BiomEdit 
Christy Wright, AgriNovus 

We can’t wait to bring you even more fantastic Agbioscience content in 2026! Season 9 starts January 12. 

404. The Agbioscience Best of 2025

305. The Agbioscience Best of 2025 

When it comes to crop inputs, farmers are looking for more than a salesman in the field – they need an advisor. One partner that can help shape decision making that keeps them profitable, efficient and sustainable all while driving yield to make their operations successful. It’s a tall order and one this week’s guest loves to welcome as a challenge. Danny Carmony, Central Indiana GM for Nutrien Ag Solutions, joins AgriNovus’ VP Libby Fritz to talk consistency, serving in that advisory role over multiple generations and what innovations have him most excited for the future of the industry. We get into:&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul><li>The work Nutrien Ag Solutions does to serve farmers and the outlook of growers over the last 12 months&nbsp;</li><li>What Danny sees ahead for 2026 and recommendations they are making to their customers&nbsp;</li><li>The relationship of Nutrien Ag Solutions with its parent company and its unique advantage&nbsp;</li><li>Alternatives for nitrogen fertilizer, new forms of nitrogen or emerging innovations that enable the farmer to be more efficient&nbsp;</li><li>Generational farming operations and the difference in selling across multiple generations of operators who have different schools of thought on ROI&nbsp;</li><li>Biologicals past, present and future in agbiosience innovation&nbsp;</li><li>Global geopolitical pressures factoring into supply and demand for farmers&nbsp;</li><li>Using the power of partnerships, leverage Nutrien Ag Solutions’ reach, while also tapping into locally to create maximum value for customers&nbsp;</li><li>The criticality of sourcing talent in areas that are serving rural customers – and Danny’s passion for bringing people from outside the industry into agbioscience&nbsp;</li><li>What’s ahead for Nutrien Ag Solutions that has him excited in 2026&nbsp;</li></ul>

Danny Carmony

Central Indiana GM, Nutrien Ag Solutions

When it comes to crop inputs, farmers are looking for more than a salesman in the field – they need an advisor. One partner that can help shape decision making that keeps them profitable, efficient and sustainable all while driving yield to make their operations successful. It’s a tall order and one this week’s guest loves to welcome as a challenge. Danny Carmony, Central Indiana GM for Nutrien Ag Solutions, joins AgriNovus’ VP Libby Fritz to talk consistency, serving in that advisory role over multiple generations and what innovations have him most excited for the future of the industry.

403. Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Danny Carmony on leveraging crop inputs into ROI, partnerships driving value + bringing talent to rural America

It is rare air to get two fantastic leaders in the same room for the podcast, but today we are joined by our very own. CICP’s CEO, Melina Kennedy, hosts our newly named AgriNovus President and CEO, Christy Wright, to talk service, food as the next frontier of health and her vision for what lies ahead for Indiana’s agbioscience economy.

Christy Wright

President + CEO, AgriNovus

402. Christy Wright on food as the next frontier of health, innovating for the farmer + AgriNovus as a critical ecosystem convener

It is rare air to get two fantastic leaders in the same room for the podcast, but today we are joined by our very own. CICP’s CEO, Melina Kennedy, hosts our newly named AgriNovus President and CEO, Christy Wright, to talk service, food as the next frontier of health and her vision for what lies ahead for Indiana’s agbioscience economy.

From domestic and global policy to the speed of innovation, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) works on behalf of the industry to promote research, development and movement of quality seed to meet the world’s demand for food, feed, fiber and beyond. This week, Beck’s Hybrids’ President, Scott Beck, hosts ASTA CEO, Andy LaVigne, and organization Chair, Dave Treinen, to talk about the organization’s pursuit to better connect innovation to consumers, new markets, policymakers and more. We get into:&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul><li>&nbsp;ASTA as one of the world’s oldest trade organizations and who they aim to serve&nbsp;</li><li>Where seed production finds itself in the mix of current challenges facing production agriculture and what is unique to them&nbsp;</li><li>The biggest regulatory discussions shaping the industry, both domestically and internationally&nbsp;</li><li>How domestic policy impacts the industry’s ability to do business internationally&nbsp;</li><li>The accelerated trend of food is health, the seed innovator’s role and how ASTA is tackling this with its partners across the value chain&nbsp;</li><li>How ASTA works to connect seed innovation to the consumer’s understanding of food production&nbsp;</li><li>Where ASTA sees the biggest opportunities to advance technologies through partnerships and collaborations&nbsp;</li><li>Big areas of focus for 2026&nbsp;</li><li>The call to action for seed distributors and innovators that want a seat at the table with ASTA, but don’t know how to get started&nbsp;</li></ul>

Andy LaVigne + Dave Treinen

American Seed Trade Association

From domestic and global policy to the speed of innovation, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) works on behalf of the industry to promote research, development and movement of quality seed to meet the world’s demand for food, feed, fiber and beyond. This week, Beck’s Hybrids’ President, Scott Beck, hosts ASTA CEO, Andy LaVigne, and organization Chair, Dave Treinen, to talk about the organization’s pursuit to better connect innovation to consumers, new markets, policymakers and more. 

401. ASTA’s Andy LaVigne + Dave Treinen on starting with seed + supporting innovation, consumer health through policy

This weekly podcast dives into agbioscience, where agriculture, life sciences and cutting-edge technology converge. Agbioscience is an in-depth conversation with leaders and entrepreneurs across food, animal health, plant science and agtech. This one-of-a-kind podcast offers updates on the latest advancements and future trends from those at the forefront of agbioscience innovation.

405. Sandra Vijn on Kipster US' partnership with MPS Eggs, consumer transparency + revolutionizing sustainable food production

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