Rice and wheat are harvested with combine harvesters. Yet strawberries are still picked by hand at a time when growers are facing rising labor costs and serious labor shortages. So why aren’t we seeing more mechanization being deployed for specialty crops?
AI’s biggest potential impact likes in making complex analytics accessible and affordable to agrifood and agribusiness processes.
Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
While many commentators have likened carbon offsetting to the Wild West of agriculture for a while now, the cracks are now starting to show with the fall from grace of key certifying body Verra and other questionable initiatives. I discussed this and more with panelists at the recent Hack Summit.
Agriculture is the beating heart of New Zealand. So why is New Zealand still not delivering on its full potential as an agri-innovation ecosystem?
From insects to indoor greens, Australian startups demonstrate the potential for novel farming systems at home and abroad.
The Egg-Tech Prize—a global competition to find scalable technologies to sex chicks before they hatch—remains unclaimed because none of the applicants meet the criteria. It’s time to explore gene editing approaches, says eggXYt CEO Yehuda Elram.
“Wood Milk started with a simple idea,” says actress Aubrey Plaza in a new spoof ad from MilkPEP, the dairy industry-backed body behind the iconic ‘Got Milk’ ads. “I saw a tree and I asked myself: Can I drink this?”
Despite the overall growth of investment and interest over the past 10 years, funding for agtech remains a small slice of the overall pie.
IFT FIRST’s Startup Pavilion brings technical, business and scientific professionals under one roof — a true rarity at agrifood events.
Founder Bobby Brannigan explains how the Mercato tech platform is keeping mom-and-pop stores in business while also serving food deserts.
2022 was a grim year for agrifoodtech investment, with funding down 44% year-on-year globally, in part driven by an 81% drop in funding in China. So why did funding fall off a cliff and what can we expect in 2023 and beyond?
While the world is facing the challenges of sustainable food production intensification, new technologies offer a tremendous opportunity to address these issues, writes Marco Brini in the wake of publishing a book about digital ag adoption.
Erika Summers explains mechanical side of vertical farming and why you can’t build a vertical farm just anywhere, despite what the hype says.
Latin American agrifoodtech startups hoping to scale their solutions can now apply to the GLOCAL Game Changers LatAm Series 2023.
Around Latin America and the Caribbean, startups are using technology to prevent, avoid or upcycle food waste up and down the supply chain.
Copper has been used as a fungicide since the 1800s with no pathogen resistance. VM Agritech builds on this ancient solution with a broad-spectrum, copper-and-zinc-based fungicide.
The now-defunct startup’s former VP Chris Cerveny says everything from timing to funding to how automation gets deployed can impact a farm’s lifespan.
Exploiting blockchain’s full potential around traceability requires us to think of the technology as a tile to be integrated with other available solutions.
Through a novel patent-pending process, ARC Ento Tech is turning waste into animal feeds, fertilizers and a reductant that could replace coking coal.
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