It’s been a long road for the ag biologicals market, which has hit some hurdles over the years amid questions around efficacy. Here John Brubaker, CEO of Plant Impact, describes the journey for biostimulants in particular.
A busy week of fundings brings newly-named Indigo, Understory, American Botanicals and Gaia Herbs to this week’s Fundings-in-Brief
The cricket farming startup is keeping its cards close to its chest when it comes to the technology it’s building but revealed an interesting line-up of investors.
2015 was a big year for Planet Labs, the satellite company. We caught up with Ryan Schacht, account executive for agriculture ahead of the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco to get an update.
ZeaKal, which is enhancing the photosynthetic capacity of soybeans, attracted funding from two agtech VC heavyweights.
2015 surpassed our mid-year expectations raising $4.6bn across 527 deals and representing 94% year over year growth.
RoCRE is an agtech incubation center attached to the world’s longest running agricultural research station Rothamsted Research, which has been researching science and innovation in the industry since 1843.
Silent Herdsman is a startup in the growing wearables market for livestock, although it’s one of very few that have been funded by venture capital.
Steve Pitstick manages Pitstick Farms in Maple Park, Illinois and recently attended and spoke at PrecisionAg Innovation Series. Here he tells us some of his key takeaways from the day.
Obama’s 2017 budget includes a range of agriculture funding initiatives as NOAA approves aquaculture in federal waters in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
2 Female Agtech Entrepreneurs were selected by their peers to receive investment from VilCap Investments and Radicle Capital.
MicaSense’s $7.4m investment from a drone company and Label Insight’s $10m Series B investment from a global accounting firm are just two of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
The biotech startup is tackling one of the biggest bacterial menaces plaguing the global dairy cattle industry.
Cool Planet, the biocarbon and biofuel producer, has raised $9 million in extra funding to commercialize its soil amendment product CoolTerra, which just earned a USDA Certified Biobased Product Label.
The soil sensor company recently launched its precision irrigation product WaterValve and is expanding into Japan with strategic help.
AgriSync has created a two-way video app with a built-in dashboard to help farmers better communicate with their advisors.
This is Avrio Capital’s third agtech fund and will revisit some subsectors of agtech which co-founder Aki Georgacacos believes have been overheated in recent months.
Koch Industries first turned its attention to ag biologicals in December 2014 when it acquired part of plant science company Mendel Biotechnology.
Hellmans’ new eggless mayo, genetically modified pigs, a U-turn from the FDA and USDA grants are some of this week’s industry news-in-brief.
Cultured meat manufacturer Memphis Meat, UK farm-2-consumer company FarmDrop and Syngenta’s acquisition by ChemChina are some of this week’s Fundings-in-Brief.
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