The Lead with ASABE

The Lead with ASABE

This podcast is produced by the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE), and seeks to: •Share information about the important work the ASABE is accomplishing on behalf of its members and the agricultural and biological engineering profession •Encourage potential ASABE members and agricultural and biological engineering students to join the society •Generate more entries for awards and services and more registrants for ASABE events •Recognize agricultural and biological engineering leaders •Educate the audience about the agricultural and biological engineering profession •Build community amongst professional agricultural and biological engineers •Advance the profession of agricultural and biological engineering

Episodes

Remote Sensing Allows Farmers to View Their Fields From Home

April 30, 2025 • 20 mins
In this episode, James Kim, Ph.D., Research Agricultural Engineer with USDA and adjunct professor in agricultural and biological engineering at North Dakota State University, based in Fargo, N.D., discusses how satellite remote sensing provides farmers with a method for monitoring crops on a large scale. He discusses the prediction about the number of satellites, why the increasing availablility of small satellites has created oppo...
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Utilizing Bayesian Statistics to Predict Experimental Friction Coefficients of Corn Stover

April 1, 2025 • 14 mins
In this episode, we take a deep dive into friction coefficient and how it affects mechanical interactions of milled corn stover particles during biofuel production. Using Bayesian statistics, a Penn State University Ph.D. graduate assistant was able to change the preprocess to influence how corn stover is used.
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An Ag Engineer’s Guide to Retirement & Insurance

March 18, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode, Investment Advisor Tom Hodgson, Lutz Financial, discusses retirement and insurance questions that ag engineers--and anyone--can and should discuss with their loved ones. There's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to planning for your future.
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Take a Deep Dive Into Millet

February 28, 2025 • 18 mins
This episode explores millet and its role in human diets over thousands of years, how the grain is being used in today's menus, and the nutritional benefits of adding millet to your diet. We're talking with Roselle Barretto, doctoral candidate, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Kansas State University, who authored an article in ASABE's Resource magazine about this topic.
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Africa’s Future in Agriculture Depends on Young Professionals

February 15, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, we talk with Taisha Venort, Ph.D., a research data scientist with Corteva about agriculture in Africa, how technology is revolutionizing the industry in Africa, entrepreneurship in African agriculture, and how young people will lead African agriculture forward. This podcast is based on the YPC Career Panel that was held during the 2023 Alliance for Modernizing African Agri-Food Systems International Conference. 
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Meet the New ASABE Journals Editor in Chief

January 31, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode, we visit with Sudhagar Mani, professor, University of Georgia College of Engineering and the new Editor in Chief for ASABE Journals. Mani shares why journals are so important to the work of ASABE, why ASABE members should publish their research, services available to ASABE members for publishing, and more.
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Using Hemp in Food Packaging

January 15, 2025 • 26 mins
Take a deep dive into food packaging, hemp and technology with this latest episode! Aaron Dudley, Ph.D., shares about his research on nanoencapsulation of hemp extract using electrospinning. 
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Order of the Engineer: Commitment to Ethics

December 31, 2024 • 15 mins
In this episode, we chat with Bob Gustafson, PE, and ASABE member, about the Order of the Engineer. The order is committed to promoting ethics in engineering. The episode discusses how to get involved in the order, what the ceremony entails, and more.
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AETC Celebrates 30 Years of Ag Equipment Tech

December 17, 2024 • 11 mins
In this episode, we interview Michael Sama, Distinguished Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Kentucky, and Cale Boriack, P.E., Design/Project Engineer, CNH. Cale serves as the current chair of AETC planning committee, and Michael is past chair. 

Sama and Boriack will discuss what's on the agenda for the 30th anniversary AETC. 

Find out more by contacting Jessica Bell at bell@asabe.org or visit the ASABE website...
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Regeneration, Sustainability & Syntropic Farming in South America

November 15, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode, Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Professor, University of Quebec, and Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Multifunctional Construction Materials, talks about her experiences regenerating pastureland through agroforestry at the Regeneration Field Institute in Ecuador. We'll discuss sustainable bamboo architecture, transforming the land with syntropic farming, grafting trees and more.
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Benefits & Drawbacks of Agrivoltaics

October 31, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode, hear from Scott Shearer, Professor & Chair, Department of Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, as he discusses all things agrivoltaics. Shearer will discuss the role ag can play in the transition to clean energy, the current pilot research program occurring in Ohio, what crops and animals seem to flourish in an agrivoltaic setting, and more.
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AI in Agriculture: Exciting Innovations

October 15, 2024 • 37 mins
AI is changing how many industries operate on a day-to-day basis, and agriculture is no exception. However, it's not a silver bullet to answer all of the industry's problems. W. Edwin Harris, Centre for Agriculture Data Science, Harper Adams University, United Kingdom, discusses the challenges of AI in the agriculture industry in this episode.
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Changing Students' Lives: Purdue's Rising Scholars Program

October 8, 2024 • 37 mins
Not all college students have an easy path to a successful agricultural and biological engineering career. Purdue's Rising Scholars Program seeks to help first-generation college students with adjusting to and succeeding in college life while pursuing a degree in a STEM field. 
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North Dakota State University Celebrates a Century of Ag Engineering

September 23, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode, hear from Leon Schumacher, Department Chair, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, North Dakota State University, as he discusses the department's celebration of a century in academia.

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A Chat with Newly Installed ASABE President Doug Otto

September 5, 2024 • 37 mins
Meet the man behind the gavel--newly installed ASABE President, Doug Otto. Doug shares his ASABE history, his goals for his presidency, and discusses the future of ag engineering. 
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Building Climate Resilient Systems & Diets in Developing Countries

August 21, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode, Michael Ngadi, Professor, McGill University, discusses how developing countries can take their destinies into their own hands to improve and innovate in their agricultural and food production systems. By doing so, these countries will better prepare themselves for climate change impacts and make their own countries more independent, while building local economies.

For more information about ASABE's initiative, the A...
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Tower Silos: Sentinels of Dairy Farm History & Engineering

August 2, 2024 • 37 mins
Our 30th episode features Gerry Rehkulger, Emeritus Professor, Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rehkugler embarked on a project to document all of the tower silos in his county in upstate New York, a former hotbed for dairy farming. Rehkugler also discusses the agricultural engineering achievements behind different types of feed storage for dairy farms. 
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Autonomous Cotton Harvesting for the Future

July 15, 2024 • 37 mins
In this episode, hear from Alex Thomasson, Professor & Department Head, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, as he discusses his team's efforts to build a robotic cotton harvester, how the robot picks cotton without damaging it, and the benefits of picking cotton with a robot. 
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Creating Standards for Ag, Food Systems & Data

June 28, 2024 • 48 mins
In this episode, hear from Andres Ferreyra, Communications Manager & CS Business Partner for Bayer, and Brent Kemp, President & CEO of AgGateway. Both of these guests serve on the new ISO committee that is creating standards for food and ag systems data. Learn more about the unified data reference architecture in the agri-food value chain, the impact of data on smart farming, agrisemantics and more.
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Adapting Feedstock Supply Chains for Regional Biorefineries

June 17, 2024 • 20 mins
In this episode, John Cundiff, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech University, discusses three technologies for hauling feedstocks to regional biorefineries. These technologies could revolutionize how biorefineries source their materials and save on costs. 
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