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The Livestack PodcastThe Livestack Podcast / Episode 29 - Training That Sticks: How On-Farm Education Builds Better Welfare and Stronger TeamsIn this episode, Daniel Foy and Dr. Jim Reynolds are joined by Dr. Michelle Schack, Dairy Veterinarian and Co-Founder of DairyKind, to explore how structured, consistent training on farms directly shapes animal welfare, team performance, and culture.
Dr. Schack shares how her platform has delivered over 76,000 on-farm training sessions across the U.S., helping teams not only meet audit standards but understand the why behind every action. Together, the trio dives into the role of the veterinarian as an educator and culture-builder, the importance of timely and language-accessible training, and how digital learning tools can transform onboarding...
2025-09-0443 min
The Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack / Episode 28: Consciousness, Sentience, Ethics, and MoneyExploring the Hidden Forces Behind Animal Welfare Decisions
In this thought-provoking episode of the LiveStack Podcast, Daniel Foy and Dr. Jim Reynolds explore the foundational, but often overlooked, forces that shape how we treat animals in agriculture. From the mysteries of consciousness to the evolution of ethical frameworks and the undeniable influence of money, this episode invites listeners to rethink how decisions get made on farms and in science.
Jim reflects on the elusive nature of consciousness, how we still don’t fully understand it, yet it underpins everything we do, from human perception to an...
2025-08-211h 05
The Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/Episode 27: Rethinking Animal Welfare – From Five Freedoms to SentienceIn this episode, Daniel Foy is joined by Dr. Jim Reynolds for a deep dive into the evolving understanding of animal welfare. The conversation starts with Jim’s recent trip to Africa, where he reflects on the profound respect he observed for animals and ecosystems, setting the tone for a discussion about the historical, ethical, and scientific shifts in animal welfare.
The discussion centers around the 1965 Brambell Report, which laid the groundwork for the now-classic Five Freedoms of animal welfare. These freedoms, initially designed to frame the physical and mental needs of animals, are unpacked in the co...
2025-08-0737 min
The Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 26: Precision Behavior Measurement for Welfare and SustainabilityIn the evolving landscape of food animal agriculture, measuring behavior is no longer just about observation, it’s about precision, scale, and measurable impact. In this episode, Daniel Foy and Dr. Jim Reynolds examine how behavior data has progressed from handwritten field notes to high-frequency, sensor-driven systems powered by machine learning. This transformation has redefined how we understand welfare, manage animals, and measure sustainability on farms.
Jim and Daniel reflect on the early days of behavior measurement, where simple metrics like lying and standing time were manually recorded and used to make management decisions. Today, those same be...
2025-07-2444 min
The Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 25: Food Animal Welfare Data Collection for Audits – Past, Present, and FutureBefore welfare became a scientific field and audit programs became standard, there was a time when farm assessments were built on instinct and good intentions rather than research and rigor. In this episode, Daniel Foy and Dr. Jim Reynolds return to the early 2000s to unpack the formation of the first on-farm food animal welfare audits in the United States.
They revisit how environmental failures in the swine industry unexpectedly laid the groundwork for audit systems, and how the National Pork Board pioneered one of the first welfare audit frameworks, later known as Validus. Jim reflects on...
2025-07-1053 min
The Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 24: The History of Contemporary Welfare – 30 Years of ChangeEpisode 24: The History of Contemporary Welfare – 30 Years of Change
LiveStack Podcast with Daniel Foy and Dr. Jim Reynolds
Over the past three decades, food animal welfare has undergone a profound transformation. In this episode, Daniel Foy and Dr. Jim Reynolds trace the arc of this shift, beginning with the industry’s earliest confrontations with welfare, from undercover videos in U.S. slaughterhouses in the late 1980s, to pivotal moments like McDonald's engagement with Temple Grandin, to the global emergence of welfare science as a formal discipline.
Listeners will hear about the pivotal role of earl...
2025-06-1948 min
The Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 23:An Introduction to Food Animal Welfare - A new Podcast FormatIn this new format for the LiveStack Podcast, co-hosts Daniel Foy (Co-Founder & CEO of AgriGates) and Dr. Jim Reynolds (Veterinarian and Professor Emeritus in Livestock Welfare) kick off by introducing themselves and laying the foundation for a thoughtful, ongoing discussion on food animal welfare and the transformative role of technology.
Jim shares his personal journey from practicing dairy and beef medicine in California to becoming a board-certified expert in animal welfare, emphasizing that good veterinary care is inseparable from understanding animals’ physical and mental well-being. Daniel reflects on how early work in food tech and livestock wearables sp...
2025-06-0524 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 21: Exploring Agritech, Data Standards, and Improved Animal WelfareWelcome to Episode 21 of the LiveStack Podcast! In this episode, we dive into insights from three pivotal conferences held in Italy this summer: the Welfare Assessment of Animals at the Farm Level (WAFL), the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), and the EU Precision Livestock Farming (EU-PLF) conference. The discussion centers around advancements in agritech, the development of data standards, and how these innovations are driving improvements in food animal welfare.
Joining Daniel Foy, Co-Founder and CEO of AgriGates, are three incredible guests with diverse backgrounds and expertise in animal welfare and precision livestock farming (PLF):
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2024-12-1642 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 18: An Introduction to AgNotate by AgriGatesWelcome to Episode 18 of the LiveStack Podcast! In this special episode, we’re thrilled to introduce AgNotate, our cutting-edge machine-learning software designed to revolutionize the way researchers and companies annotate animal behavior, events, and welfare indicators.
AgNotate streamlines the data annotation process, saving valuable time while enhancing the welfare and health of food animals in complex agricultural settings. This innovative tool is a game-changer for the industry, and we're excited to dive into its development and potential impact.
Joining us in this episode are key members of the AgriGates engineering team who were instrumental in brin...
2024-08-2122 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Episode 17: Mapping AgriTech Software and Hardware in Food Animal Agriculture.Welcome to Episode 17 of the LiveStack podcast.
Alana Lee joins Daniel (Co-founder and CEO of AgriGates) in this month's episode. Alana is a student at Texas A&M University, where she is completing her bachelor's degree in animal science. With a background in beef production, Alana discovered her passion for dairy cattle as a freshman at TAMU. During her time as an undergraduate, she has participated in numerous research opportunities, including projects related to Mastitis treatment, nutrition trials, and, of course, her research internship with AgriGates on Mapping AgriTech Software and Hardware in Food Animal Agriculture.
2024-04-2421 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast / Episode 16 - The Kipster Journey: Welfare and AgriTech in Poultry FarmingWelcome to Episode 16 of the Livestock podcast, where in this episode, we explore “The Kipster Journey: Welfare and AgriTech in Poultry Farming."
Our guest joining us for this episode is Ruud Zanders, the founding partner at Kiptster. Kipster is a Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming. Building the most animal-friendly and environmentally-friendly poultry farm in the world. This is an important issue people face, in how we will feed the growing world’s population in a fair way—without overexploiting nature and excluding people.
He is joined by Dr. Jim Reynolds, an AgriGates team member and Professo...
2024-03-1434 min
The Canadian PodcowData, AI and Dairy FarmingHow can we, aggregate quality data from the farm level for the improvement of food animal welfare and dairy production while enabling farm data ownership and governance?The intersection of food sector innovation and technology can bring progress to the farm. Data can help to advance our understanding of animal welfare and sustainability within livestock production systems. WIth the advent of Artificial Intelligence, there are many possibilities, but also many chalenges ahead. Our guest is Daniel Foy, Co-Founder and CEO of AgriGates,
2024-03-0526 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast / Episode 15: Data awareness in Dairy and at the Farm LevelWelcome to Episode 15 of the Livestock podcast, where we will discuss Data awareness in Dairy and at the Farm Level.
Joining this Episode with Daniel is Dr Liliana Fadul. Dr Fadul is an animal scientist currently working as a Data analyst for Lactanet, Montreal, Canada. Liliana completed her Ph.D. at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada). There, she recognized the potential use of data science techniques to help identify problems and offer solutions in the Animal Science field. Learning and exploring these applied techniques, particularly in dairy farms, became her true passion.
Liliana was part of t...
2024-02-0728 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast / Episode 7: Food Animal AgriTech in Italy: Small, Smart, and SustainableJoin in and listen to episode 7 with Dr. Micheal Odintsov Vaintrub, Veterinarian and AgriTech COO, and Daniel Foy from AgriGates as they talk about “ Food Animal AgriTech in Italy: Small, Smart, and Sustainable.”
Michael grew up in Israel and moved to Italy in 2011 to study veterinary medicine at the University of Teramo (Abruzzo region), which he completed in 2017. He followed the studies with a Ph.D. focused on sustainable animal husbandry and PLF development. His research work predominantly focused on the integration of PLF technologies in outdoor production systems typical to central Italy. This is a fas...
2023-05-3154 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Ep 5: Machine Learning (ML) in Food Animal Agriculture: An old tool with new applications on FarmJoin in and listen to this episode's discussion on Machine Learning (ML) in Food Animal Agriculture: An old tool with new applications on Farm, with Marcel Alsdorf, senior cloud solution architect at Microsoft, with Daniel Foy, Co-Founder & CEO of AgriGates.
Marcel Alsdorf is a cloud solution architect with five years of experience at Microsoft consulting various companies on their cloud strategy. In this role, he focuses on supporting companies in their move toward being data-driven by analyzing their requirements and designing their data infrastructure in the areas of IoT and event streaming, data warehousing, and machine learning. ...
2023-03-0646 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast/ Ep 4: Digital Skills Training for Beginners in AgricultureJoining in on Digital Skills Training for Beginners in Agriculture discussion topic in this Episode are Rob Thomas, who is the Vice President of Education at LaunchCode, Erin Davison is the Senior Manager for Community Engagement at LaunchCode and Daniel Foy, Co-Founder & CEO of AgriGates.
Rob is the Vice President of Education at LaunchCode. Rob is passionate about the ways in which technology can enhance education and how technology training can help individuals reach their full potential. In his current role, Rob uses his industry experience to design and deliver training programs to hundreds of learners in S...
2023-02-0639 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack Podcast, Ep 3: Data & Food Animal Welfare.Joining in on the Data & Food animal welfare topic in this Episode are Dr. Jennifer Walker, Director of Milk Quality and cow care champion at Danone NA, Dr. Jim Reynolds, Professor of Large Animal Medicine/Welfare at Western University, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Daniel Foy, Co-Founder & CEO of AgriGates.
Dr. Jen graduated in 2000 from UC Davis and spent 4 years in private practice on California dairies before earning her PhD at Ohio State (2010). Realizing that the greatest opportunity to drive meaningful improvement in animal welfare was through the supply chain, Dr. Jen made the leap from the b...
2023-01-2553 minThe Livestack PodcastThe LiveStack podcast, Ep 2: Training and educating people to handle data from Precision Livestock Technology.Welcome to the second Episode in the series of the liveStack Podcast. Where in each Episode, we speak with leaders and industry experts who are interested and invested in farm-level data and farm data ownership.
Joining this Episode are returning guests Dr. Liliana Fadul, Ph.D., who is a Data Scientist at Lactenet in Canada, Dr. Vivi Thorup, assistant professor at the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Daniel Foy, Co-Founder, and CEO of AgriGates,
The topic for discussion was - Training and educating people to handle data from Precision...
2022-12-1950 minThe Livestack PodcastThe Livestack Podcast / Episode 1: Dairy Data Ownership & Data at the Farm LevelIn this episode, Daniel Foy, the Co-Founder & CEO of AgriGates speaks with Lilian Fadul and Michel Baldin about farm-level data, farm-level data ownership, and what that means today.
2022-07-1449 min
The Agri Insider PodcastData ownershipThe great dilemma that currently occupies international discussion over future policy, regulation, ethics and fair play is data ownership. This panel tries to navigate the future of data ownership and how tech companies can operate in an economy where ‘data is the new oil’.Featuring Karen Hildebrand PHD, Head, WW Solutions Architecture, Agriculture, Amazon Web Services & Mareese Keane, Opengate, USAModerated by Daniel Foy, CEO & Co-Founder, AgriGates, USA
2021-07-2824 min