Sperm sexing technology, hi-tech glasses for drones, and an aerial imagery company working with John Deere make up a very diverse and exciting Ag Industry Brief this week!
Decisive Farming recently raised $6 million in Series A funding and focuses on one key area to keep the competition at bay.
A varied week of agtech fundings includes a food waste-to-biofertilizer company, a leading global private equity firm, an Irish startup using artificial intelligence to find healthy peptides, a precision ag software startup, and more.
Agribusinesses are at risk of being left behind if they don’t make technology investment a core part of their strategy, according to a new report from BCG Consulting and AgFunder.
US farmland values fell 0.2 percent in Q3, representing a shift from 0.7 percent growth during Q2. Whole Foods is in a spot over two cases of Hepatitis in Detroit, while Western Growers plans to award startups at its upcoming AGM.
Zymergen is engineering microbes for use across a range of industries including agriculture, and has raised one of agtech’s largest funding rounds to-date.
IntelinAir, the aerial imagery analysis company for the agriculture industry, yesterday announced the addition of two board members and some agronomy and robotics experts to its advisory committee.
Agriculture technology has emerged as a new destination for investors, but it still lacks definition. Here are five ways to think about it.
American Farm Bureau Insurance Services and Granular have partnered to simplify crop insurance for their clients, and Proagrica will offer clients on its global ag analytics platform access to Iteris ag information services.
Ahead of the PrecisionAg Vision Conference in Phoenix, Arizona next month, James Sulecki writes about five key trends in horticulture technology.
Crop Enhancement, a startup using what it dubs “sustainable chemistry” to combat crop pests and increase crop yields in the tropics, has raised $8.5 million in Series B funding.
For the eighth round of this annual event, 20 companies will present across multiple technology categories while panel discussions will focus on food waste, gene-editing technology and a keynote from farmers.
John Deere’s acquisition of Precision Planting from Monsanto has been called into question by US Anti-trust officials, while Caribou Biosciences expands and Virtrus Nutrition acquires Farmeron.
A recent movement by some outdoor organic growers to prevent the inclusion of hydroponic operations from the organic register highlights what organic really means.
One of 2015’s most notable deals, AgBiome’s Series B attracted investment from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We caught up with John Rabby and Tracy Raines to get an update.
Ag technologies are an essential part of Spearhead’s European operations, but it also faces challenges in deploying them, according to Tom Green, CEO.
Ahead of the release of his new data-heavy report, Patrick Keating of Keating International gives an exclusive insight into how the global food system has progressed since the earliest forms of food and agriculture technology.
Investment into agriculture technology startups fell 20% year-over-year in the first half of 2016, as 307 funding deals collected $1.75 billion. At the same time, deal activity increased 7% and the number of unique investors increased 52% year-over-year.
Edible Manhattan and VaynerLive hosted the first ever Food Loves Tech Expo in New York last month to showcase technologies aiming to disrupt our food chain.
In advance of a speaking slot at the Forbes AgTech Summit in Salinas, California, Kip Tom of the 20k-acre Tom Farms tell AgFunderNews his views on agtech adoption.
Smoke & mirrors, not worth the extra cost: 50 US farmers speak out on carbon markets