AgriFood Tech Spotlight: Dropcopter is Pollinating Orchards with Drones as Bee Colonies Decline
Pollination is one of the biggest concerns for specialty crop growers, especially as bee populations continue to decline.
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In the Mooood For Love: UK Startup Launches Tudder, a Tinder For Cows
Tudder is a new swipe-led matchmaking app, helping farm animals across the UK find breeding partners in the quest for moo love.
How to Overcome the Many Challenges Associated with Agricultural Data
Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more.
BREAKING: Restaurants Can Earn $7 for Every $1 They Invest in Fighting Food Waste – new report
The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine's Day is one of the industry's biggest nights of the year.
60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now!
Voting will close at 5 pm PT on February 28. The winners will be exclusively announced at the ReThink Agri-Food Innovation Week in San Francisco on March 20 at a special networking evening bridging the World Agri-Tech and the Future Food-Tech Summits.
Pivot Bio’s PROVEN Microbes Can Reduce Negative Impacts of Fertilizer Overuse and Leaching
Nitrogen fertilizer is widely used in row crop production and is a key expense farmers face each year. But often that fertilizer is wasted, washing away after heavy rains or leaching due to irrigation or poor soil quality.
Chipotle Foundation Launches Inaugural Accelerator With 8 Tech Startups Setting High Standards in AgriFood
Applicants were required to fall within four categories: alternative farming and growing systems, farming with agriculture technology, food waste and recovery, and plants and alternative products.
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.
Food Tech Startup Steps up to Alleviate Federal Workers’ Food-Related Government Shutdown Woes
On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash and social service access platform mRelief are teaming up to provide affected San Francisco residents with up to $35 in DoorDash credit while they wait for their food stamp benefit approvals.
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.
Food Tech Startup Spotlight: Noluma’s Innovative Packaging is Reducing Risk of Milk Degradation
Noluma has developed a unique technology that measures the light protection of packaging as a function of its effects on the product contents by placing a marker ingredient in a solution inside a test package, which is then exposed to intense light.
EXCLUSIVE: Cainthus Appoints New CEO Aidan Connolly, Former Alltech Innovation Head
Connolly, who worked at Alltech for over 25 years, has often been referred to as the fourth founder of Cainthus.
Sustainable Beer by 2025? AB InBev Partners with Ag Biotech Startup BHB to Optimize Barley Production
Through the partnership with agtech startup Benson Hill Biosystems, AB InBev is hoping to equip farmers with more productive and sustainable barley varieties.
How Filament Science is Serving Cannabis’ Budding Microbial Sciences Sector
As the cannabis industry continues to expand, growers are looking for ways to increase crop yield and quality.
FarmLogs Launches AutoHedge App to Help Farmers Market Their Grain Before Harvest
The free app is aimed at helping overstretched and frustrated farmers take advantage of futures markets, which are complex and time-consuming, using research-based software and automation.
Tyson Partners with EDF to Reduce GHG Emissions on 2M Acres Using Ag Data Platforms FBN, MyFarms
Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest meat companies, and non-profit Environmental Defense Fund have formed a new partnership this week to develop and deploy a set of initiatives that will help Tyson achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the company and its supply chains by 30% in 2030.
New Report: Banks Can Play a Key Role in Improving Sustainability in SE Asia’s Seafood Industry
Based on the report’s findings, Global Canopy has added new tools and guidance to its SCRIPT platform that will help banks take a more active approach to engaging companies about the sustainability and impact of their seafood-related practices.
UK Farm Minister Urges British Producers to Lead the World in Technology
The British Government’s Food, Farming and Environment Minister, Michael Gove, has promised to deliver an ambitious new UK food strategy in 2019, embrace a properly funded 25-year environment plan and commit to rising investments in agritech.
Farmer-Centric Accelerator AgLaunch Awards Row Crop Challenge Winner Kopper Kutter
Innova Memphis, a Tennessee-based venture firm, has announced the winner of its first $100,000 Row Crop Challenge powered by AgLaunch as part of the Farm Journal Expo last week. After pitching in the final four, selected from a group of national applicants, Kopper Kutter was voted by a panel of farmers as the lucky inaugural winner.
The AgriFood Tech Industry’s 2018 Christmas Grinch List
We asked some agrifood tech investors and startup executives to tap into their inner Grinch to share their 2018 pet peeves, overplayed tech trends, and the bad habits they hope to banish in 2019.