In today's episode we welcome Dr. Alexandra DiFeliceantonio.

Dr. DiFeliceantonio is an appetitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain integrates peripheral signals to guide food selection and eating behaviors. Using multimodal brain imaging and metabolic measures, her laboratory in Roanoke studies food motivation to ask new questions about diet, food choice, and addiction. Listen along as we delve into her work and what it means for our foods system.

In today's episode we get to chat with Austin Frerick about his new book Barons.

Austin is an expert on agricultural and antitrust policy. He worked at the Open Markets Institute, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the Congressional Research Service before becoming a Fellow at Yale University. He is a 7th generation Iowan and 1st generation college graduate, with degrees from Grinnell College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Join us as we talk to Mark Desantis, CEO of Bloomfield a venture-backed ag-tech company that helps specialty crop growers across the US, EU, and South America. Bloomfield leverages years of research and development in artificial intelligence and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University to improve the health and performance of specialty crops through automated, continuous and comprehensive plant-by-plant assessment and analysis.