Zulal Oasis, the joint venture subsidiary of Hassad Food, recently held an open day for local farmers, investors and agriculture specialists.
AgTech Insight, a Salinas-based consultancy firm, held an educational event for farmers last week to learn about investing into agriculture technology.
The Ag Innovation Showcase, one of agtech’s first conferences, is in its seventh year, and will feature presentations from its highest number of women-owned startups.
A group of graduates has established Farmster, a social purpose corporation, which aims to build community farms across the U.S.
The agribusiness has created a nutrition system for livestock producers and has donated to an educational project at a dairy farm pursuing innovative and sustainable practices.
Kuli Kuli’s moringa-based products are now available in 500 stores across the country after the company received an endorsement from Chelsea Clinton last month.
AgFunderNews catches up with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to discuss Advantage Capital Partners’ latest investment in organic herb business Shenandoah Growers, and USDA plans to invest in other parts of rural America.
Farmland Partners, the listed farmland real estate investment trust, has launched a loan program for farmers to help bridge operating costs amid commodity price slump.
Illumitex has launched a program to help growers take advantage of the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which provides grants to agricultural entities using energy-efficient improvements or a renewable energy system.
There is an emerging trend building in India for young startup businesses to partner with large, local corporates. Sickle Innovations, a business focused on designing efficient agri equipment for agriculture in India, as entered into one such partnership.
Technology veteran John Hartnett talks to AgFunderNews about why he got involved in ag, his firm’s $100m agtech fund and establishing links between Silicon Valley and farmers in Salinas Valley.
Collecting farmland performance data globally has been a bugbear for many investors for a long time. Map of Agriculture hopes to fill the information gap with a global resource for investors, and possibly farmers too.
With one of the world’s oldest agriculture sectors, the UK is home to a large amount of agricultural research in technologies and science. Here are three institutions offering funding or support to agtech entrepreneurs and startups.
The Tennessee department of agriculture is launching an agtech accelerator with Memphis Bioworks Foundation as part of wider plans to expand the state’s $66bn agriculture industry.
The week’s fundings in brief include acquisitions by Cargill in Mexico and aquaculture, Solyent’s legal pressure from environment watchdog and even more e-grocery fundings in India.
The recipient of $2m in angel financing last week, HUVRData, drone-based data analytics company, has now officially launched as a service for agriculture, wind farms, solar farms and the oil and gas sector.
AgFunderNews recently had the opportunity to talk to Indian VCs at Aavishkar and Intellecap Impact Investment Network about portfolio company Agro Star and other technologies getting them excited in the sector.
Smart Agriculture Analytics, an English language data provider for China’s agriculture technology market, will now connect non-Chinese agtech and input providers with Chinese distributors.
The UDSA and Microsoft have launched the Innovation Challenge, a contest offering access to large amounts of USDA data. Awards include cash prizes and the deadline is November.
“The entire initiative is really born out of our leadership in the agri community,” Hank Giclas, senior vice president, strategic planning, science & technology at WGA recently told AgFunderNews.
