The food waste-to-fertilizer startup is constructing its first commercial scale facility in Sacramento after signing a food supply agreement with a local supermarket.
Drones across industries raised this funding, according to CB Insights, while growers debate the efficiency of the technology for agriculture.
Farmland fund manager SLM Partners argues that ecological farming provides an alternative way to produce more with less, through deeply science-based and knowledge-intensive farming systems.
Since Neil Perkins, a sheep farmer from West Wales in the UK, made significant, technological changes to his farming practices, he has become one of the biggest ram breeders in the UK.
Grownetics raised funding from cannabis-focused VC Phyto Partners to expand its early stage sensor and data analytics technology.
The National Farmers’ Federation is spearheading the initiatives alongside commercial partners such as Accenture and Vodafone, after Prime Minister Turnbull announced them late last year.
Barfoots of Botley grows, processes, and packs a range of semi-exotic produce grown in the UK, Spain, Senegal, and Peru, and is currently undertaking 30 innovation projects. MD Julian Marks presented three at the Oxford Farming Conference.
SunCulture, a company creating solar-powered irrigation kits for smallholder farmers, discusses the challenges of getting startup funding in Africa.
MGV has revealed its portfolio of agtech investments to AgFunderNews ranging from precision agriculture technologies to life science companies, ag biologicals, and new crops and new business models.
The family office invested in the Series B round of MJ Freeway, a cannabis tracking software provider, as food e-commerce companies in Asia continued to raise funds.
The Israeli sensor and data analysis startup is one of few using dendrometers to measure water stress in plants.
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A group of producers and agribusinesses has called for collaboration in the industry to ensure the development of effective agriculture technology.
The French agribot manufacturer is developing two new robots for vegetable farms and vineyards as well as eyeing international expansion.
Ag data and analytics technology companies continued to attract investment capital last week with a $5.5m Series A for Farmobile and a $1.2m seed funding round for S4.
Last month AgFunderNews caught up with Andy Ziolkowski, managing director at Chicago-based agtech VC Cultivian Sandbox, to discuss a growing trend for investing in both farmland and agtech.
The Californian startup that is using robots to weed, thin and spray vegetable fields, raised the capital from a heavy-hitting group of agtech-focused and technology venture capital firms.
Liron Brish, the co-founder and CEO of Farm Dog, a precision agriculture platform, discusses the comments made at an event organized by DEFRA and the Open Data Institute.
The farm management tool will draw down the bridge financing as needed for expansion into new geographies and to fund new industry partnerships, according to Patrick Christie, CEO of Conservis.
AeroFarms has plans to build 25 farms over the next five years and expand its reach across four continents, David Rosenberg, CEO, tells AgFunderNews.
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