FarmBits Podcast: Sporing New Insights

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Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.

FarmBits Podcast: Sporing New Insights

In this week’s episode of FarmBits Podcast, Kristine White, CEO of Spornado, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, joins podcast hosts Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell to discuss how her company is providing predictive fungal disease insights with its Spornado Sampler, an in-field device that stands above the crop canopy and captures airborne fungal spores. White explains how the Spornado Sampler currently works, the insights it enables, and its impending digital evolution.

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