Syngenta CEO: Climate Change Will Be Our Biggest Challenge
A lot has changed in agribusiness since Erik Fyrwald took the helm of Syngenta in 2016.
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Spent Grains Upcycler ReGrained on the ‘Powerful Experience’ of Meeting Griffith Foods through TERRA
Before applications close on Sunday May 12, TERRA alum ReGrained shares insights about the benefits of working with corporates on scaling the business.
7 Top Agtech Startups Defining the Future of Agriculture
What do robotics, blockchain, insur-tech, and cow fart-reduction tech (yes, really) all have in common? These technologies will all be showcased at F&A Next in The Netherlands next month!
7 Food Tech Startups Defining the Future of Food in Europe
For the F&A Next conference at Wageningen University next month, Anterra has selected seven food tech companies to pitch their novel technologies including logistics, gut microbiome testing, flavor analysis, novel milk proteins, and plant-based health products.
TERRA Growth Stage AgriFood Accelerator Opens for Applications!
TERRA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, is unique in its approach to acceleration by focusing on startups that are ready to scale their businesses, as opposed to those at the proof of concept stage refining their pitches for seed funding.
How TartanSense is Building Small Robots for Small Farms in India
TartanSense builds small land-based robots for small farms and smallholder farmers initially focused on pesticide application.
Cultivating Agtech Leadership for Established Row Crop Leaders
One of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice, writes the Illinois Soybean Association.
Evolving to Serve a Dynamic Agri-Food Market – What’s Next for Benson Hill?
Matt Crisp is cofounder and CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology and gene editing. Here he writes about the startup's evolution and transition to now serving a broad range of clients across the food system.
Elemental Excelerator Provides Up-to $1m to Startups Tackling Our Biggest Agriculture Challenges
Elemental Excelerator, a non-profit funder of agriculture, water, energy, mobility, and circular economy startups, is accepting applications for its 8th cohort.
From Lab-Grown Meat to Blockchain, Alltech Accelerator Selects 10 Global Startups at the Cutting Edge of AgTech
A record number of startups applied for the third year of The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, organized and run by global agtech business Alltech alongside Irish tech community hub Dogpatch Labs.
FoodBytes! By Rabobank Selects 15 AgriFood Tech Startups to Pitch in San Francisco
The FoodBytes! platform is introducing some new elements this year including new prizes and resources for participating startups, and new categories.
FBN Announces Winners of Farmer2Farmer Startup Pitch Contest: Augean Robotics & Rogo
Augean Robotics, a startup building autonomous farm equipment, and Rogo, an automated soil testing startup, both won awards at Farmers Business Network‘s (FBN) first startup pitch contest last week.
Both companies will be featured on FBN Direct Marketplace for free for a year, a platform that connects farmers with exclusive FBN-member discounts from companies farmers know, use frequently and love.
Alltech’s Pearse Lyons Accelerator Offers Route to Market for Scaling Startups – apply now!
Alltech does not take any equity from the startups and instead focuses on helping them with their business development and route to market, a big challenge for agtech startups. Deadline to apply is December 31, 2018.
Saving Our Soils Will Require a Diverse Set of Technologies and Tools
Rajiv Singh, the former CEO of Rabobank North America, writes about FoodShot's search for projects and ideas that utilize the latest in technology, science, and engineering to address the crisis of soil deterioration ahead of the January 8, 2019 deadline.
FoodBytes! San Francisco Open for Applications with Focus on Supply Chain Technologies
FoodBytes! by Rabobank is returning to San Francisco for the sixth time in March 2019. The pitch competition is looking for food and agriculture innovators across the supply chain to apply to present their technologies in front of an audience of investors, corporate customers and potential partners.
Sprout Accelerator is Looking for Startups Reimagining the Food System & Avoiding the Hype
“I think the whole business model of just make more, sell more is broken; that’s not going to be a sustainable business model," says Karin Schofield at Sprout Accelerator.
Farmers Business Network Selects 6 Agtech Startups for Innovation Showcase
The startup launched the startup competition to showcase the latest in agriculture innovation to its farmer members, and to give startups the opportunity to get exposure and real-time feedback from their target customers.
Mimica is Creating Alternative Food Labels for Consumers to Feel When Food Has Expired
Solveiga Pakštaitė is founder and director of Mimica, a food labeling technology startup that recently won the People’s Choice Award at Rabobank’s startup pitch event FoodBytes! in London. We caught up with her to find out more about how she created the technology and how it will be deployed.
Dairy Quality Detection Tech Wins FoodBytes! Judges’ Choice Award as Food Waste Takes 2 Prizes
SomaDetect, an agriculture technology startup that measures milk quality from every cow at milking, won the FoodBytes! New York Judges’ Choice Award. SomaDetect uses sensors that fit into existing milking equipment to measure the fat and protein content of dairy as well as somatic cells — an indication when a cow is suffering from mastitis — progesterone, and antibiotics.
SOS! The Food System Needs a New Soil Operating System
Clearly, our food system needs to change, radically and quickly, and we have to start at its foundation: the soil, writes Victor Friedberg.