FoA 248: Regrow Merges Agronomic Insights with Sustainability Metrics

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can all agree that sustainability that comes at the expense of productivity and efficiency is not truly sustainable at all. We are going to need to meld together what’s best for the productivity and profitability of growers with the ecosystem services they can provide. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just recently agtech company FluroSat announced that they acquired another agtech company,</span> <a href="https://www.daganinc.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dagan</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and the combined company was re-branded to a new name:</span> <a href="https://www.regrow.ag"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Regrow</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. You might remember</span> <a href= "https://flurosat.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">FluroSat</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">founder Anastasia Volkova from her first appearance on this podcast back in</span> <a href= "https://aggrad.libsyn.com/foa-175-ai-for-precision-ag-decision-support-with-anastasia-volkova-of-flurosat"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">episode 175</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. She joins us again today, now as CEO of Regrow, along with Dagan co-founder and now Regrow Chief Strategy Officer Bill Salas. Both of them are accomplished scientists as well as entrepreneurs. We have a great conversation here about why this merger made sense, what differentiates their carbon model, called DNDC, from other ways to model carbon sequestration, and how their newly combined and rebranded company will help growers maximize productivity, profitability, and sustainability. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>“DNDC’s approach is much more first principles on how management influences soil environment, which in turn influences which microbes are more active and drives the outcomes in terms of soil carbon turnover and greenhouse gas emissions.” -Bill Salas</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Dagan was interested in ho