In this episode we dive into the post-harvest world with Kailan Dunn, President & CEO of H.R. Spinner - one of the largest fruit packaging companies in the United States selling over 100 million boxes every year.

Since 1916 H.R. Spinner has been an industry-leading company enabling tree fruit growers to protect, sell, and deliver their crop with smarter boxes, pads, and in-house automation with box makers, tray formers, and pad inserters. Their work is integral to keeping apples, potatoes, hops, and blueberries moving.

This is a story of packaging, people, and the future of what goes on behind the scenes in the food supply chain.

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Tyler Price is a Stanford educated CEO leading one of the largest fruit growing and packing companies in Washington State, Price Cold Storage and Packing Company. A fourth generation family business that's been in operation for nearly a century, Tyler is leading the company into the future with a state of the art facility, bold partnerships, and a relentless focus on quality. He's not just running a company, he's an industry leader, shaping the conversation around technology, food safety, and the next generation of talent through his role as Chairman of the Washington Apple Education Foundation.

This is a story about innovation, scale, family business, and the kind of leadership it takes to perform on a global scale.

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Steve Saunders has built businesses in almost every link in the horticulture chain - pre harvest, post harvest, branded produce, and innovative robotics. He's helped entrepreneurs, growers, scientists, and investors connect long before agricultural robotics even entered the picture. Now, Steve is most famed for his business, Robotics Plus, a company at the forefront in developing innovative robotics within the agriculture industry. He's helped to scale the business globally and has recently merged with Yamaha to form Yamaha Agriculture. This episode is about vision, culture, and the true grit behind turning orchard and agricultural problems into a global technology solution.

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