Hosted by Tim & Tyler Nuss
The Modern Acre is the podcast for builders in ag who think differently. Tim and Tyler interview the entrepreneurs, farmers and leaders that are innovating the food and agriculture industry.
464 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2026-06-30 · ~30 min/episode
Rank
#3510
Substance
59.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
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#3510 of 6183
Substance
Top 57%
outscores 43% of the index
The Modern Acre ranks #3510 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 59.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and specificity & evidence. Mackenzie Burnett is a genuine founder-practitioner who has demonstrably grown the product, making her more credible than a pure thought-leader, but Ambrook is the episode's explicit sponsor, which structurally caps candour and depth. She hasn't yet operated at truly large scale, and the sponsorship relationship is unmistakable.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode has scattered useful data points - complex customers being most retentive, May as the worst sales month, MCP server democratising custom software - but roughly a third of the runtime is an unrelated biological summit recap, and the Ambrook interview itself is padded with vague growth-speak and platitudes. The insight-per-minute rate for the titular topic is low.
“our highest value and most retentive customers are the most complex ones. So the folks who are running multiple entities who have a bunch of different enterprises”
“the worst month for like from a sales perspective is always going to be May because it's right after tax day and it's when everyone's planting”
The honest farmer voice from the biological summit (9/10 trials failing) is a genuinely rare, counterintuitive data point against industry hype. The MCP-server-as-ag-integration-layer framing is mildly fresh for this audience. Everything else - brand-as-funnel, chaos-accordion org metaphor, always-be-raising - is recycled founder narrative.
“nine out of ten haven't worked so like in the room of audience of all these people you know just super bullish about the about the about the industry”
“the chaos accordion. It's like just when you think that you have figured something out, you know, like the chaos like starts to, you know, starts to become a bigger deal again”
Mackenzie Burnett is a genuine founder-practitioner who has demonstrably grown the product, making her more credible than a pure thought-leader, but Ambrook is the episode's explicit sponsor, which structurally caps candour and depth. She hasn't yet operated at truly large scale, and the sponsorship relationship is unmistakable.
“we had around a little over 2000 customers and now we have over over 7”
“we actually already have we already have an embedded deposit account”
There are genuine specifics - 7,000 customers, 150,000 Off Range subscribers, a named Texas ranch with a described custom OS, PlyMag at 15x EBITDA, Third Bank as the banking partner - but no revenue figures, no churn rates, no CAC, no headcount, and no customer ROI data surface. The specificity is real but thin for a 27-minute episode.
“we have about 150,000 subscribers to our weekly newsletter”
“There was like one company called PlyMag that sold for 15 times EBITDA”
The host asks a few directional follow-ups (seasonality, integrations, what she's changed her mind about) but never pushes back on any claim. The fundraising question is completely dodged - 'can share a little bit more details maybe in the next couple of months' - and the host simply moves on. The sponsor relationship visibly muffles any productive tension throughout.
“so yeah, it's been, um, that's been good there. Um, can share a little bit more details maybe in the next couple of months”
“Well, Mackenzie, this has been a ton of fun. As we wrap up here, maybe talk to us about your goals for the rest of the year”
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