Five Trends in Horticulture Technology
Ahead of the PrecisionAg Vision Conference in Phoenix, Arizona next month, James Sulecki writes about five key trends in horticulture technology.
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.
On a quest to understand the forces at play in the agricultural economy, and to assess the role that agtech could play in this economy, Rogers has written a two-part in-depth analysis for AgFunderNews
Monsanto and TargetGene Biotechnologies, a genome-editing company using RNA-guided gene-editing techniques, have entered into a license agreement granting Monsanto an exclusive license to TargetGene’s proprietary “T∙GEE” (Genome Editing Engine) platform.
Senior figures at the world’s largest agribusinesses are placing increasing emphasis on the importance of digital agriculture technologies as a boost to their existing seed and chemical businesses.
Chris Powers, an entrepreneur, writer, and urban agriculture evangelist, offers his four key takeaways from the Association for Vertical Farming’s Summit in Amsterdam two weeks ago.
Today BEE, a Mexican-American agricultural venture development firm, comes out of stealth to launch an end-to-end agriculture platform for emerging markets.
Bill Dowdle is stepping down as the CEO of AgLink and along with tech manager Phil Hoult, shares his thoughts about the Aussie agtech scene.
MimosaTEK, a Vietnamese agtech startup providing data, decision support, and remote control capabilities through sensors and a cloud platform, recently won the Vietnamese round of Seedstars World competition.
General Mills has launched a new partnership with the largest organic cooperative in the U.S. that will help about 20 dairy farms add around 3,000 acres to organic dairy production over the next three years.
Over $60m of agtech fundings this week include Engender Technologies, Inocucor, WiseRG, Planetary Resources, MastiLine, Chef’d and Kazzit.