Pat Rogers, a fifth-generation peanut and cotton producer, is the creator and visionary behind AgFuse, a social network for farmers.
Two weeks ago I headed to Stockholm, Sweden to speak at and attend the Sweden Food Tech “Big Meet” conference and I was impressed by the small but growing level of activity in the country.
It would be hard for the large multinational food companies to ignore the rapid innovation taking place in their industry.
Blue Apron filed for an IPO, and an internal dispute at Hampton Creek are just two stories in this week’s industry brief.
FBN says the tool offers a new future for crop marketing, using networks and data to increase profits and level out what it describes as an uneven playing field for farmers.
Consumers are getting impatient with restaurants and retailers for dragging their feet on using antibiotics in livestock that are medically important to humans.
Intrapreneurial projects are a way for large companies gain in agility, to the benefit of the whole food and agriculture innovation ecosystem, writes Christophe Breuillet.
The first artificial intelligence (AI) enabled augmented reality crop management system may be coming to an indoor farm near you very soon, according to Ryan Hooks of Huxley.
Ever get to the end of the week faced with a fridge full of rotting produce and gone off meat because plans to cook up a storm got sidetracked? You’re not alone.
Three players in the very small, but growing, lab-grown meat club spoke together on a panel at the Reducetarian Summit in New York City earlier this month.
Brexit presents an opportunity for the UK to re-pivot, refocus and redeploy its capital and energies towards the nation’s value-added agricultural technologies and cutting-edge science capabilities, writes Richard Ferguson.
Trimble to Acquire Müller-Elektronik to Extend its Precision Agriculture Capabilities
There are five key barriers to digital agtech adoption, according to a new report from Rabobank.
There’s a real risk that the biggest agricultural companies in the world right now might not be the same in 10 years’ time. That doesn’t have to be the case, but if you look at the data, it’s not hard to imagine it happening, writes Paul Cuatrecasas.
New Zealand’s agtech sector is in robust health with great deal flow opportunities for international, as well as domestic, investors. But the country lacks a coherent story that articulates our strengths in this space, writes Peter Wren-Hilton.
Asia’s first agritech and foodtech startup up competition will take place in Singapore later this month.
Hampton Creek CEO Cleans House Amid Fundraising Woes Hampton Creek, which created a vegan egg-less mayo spread, has only raised $7 million toward its recently
Retail sales of labeled fresh grassfed beef reached $272 million in 2016, up from $17 million in 2012 and doubling every year, according to a new report entitled Back to Grass: the Market Potential for U.S. Grassfed Beef.
There are few places in the world that have a better environment for building agtech devices and large scale smart farming projects than Taiwan, writes Matthew Ryan.
A study of 946 farms in France has shown that pesticide use can be significantly reduced without lowering yields or profitability.
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