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June 13, 2017
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Survey: Midwest Farmers Have Mixed Feelings About Investing in Agtech Products
April 20, 2017
Agriculture technology solutions have to be a user-friendly and a worthwhile investment for farmers to take the plunge, farmers told FBN in a recent survey.
FarmDrive Raises Funding to Help Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Get Finance with Credit Scoring Algorithm
February 16, 2017
FarmDrive is using big data to create credit scores for smallholders farmers, enabling local banks to lend to them.
Suits (or Hoodies) and Boots: What Corporates and Farmers Can Learn from Each Other
December 29, 2016
Kate Burke, founder of Think Agri, a consultancy firm based in Melbourne, Australia, is on a mission to fill the education gap between investors and agribusinesses.
How GODAN Wants to Empower the World’s Farmers Through Big Data Sharing
October 17, 2016
On World Food Day, AgFunderNews caught up with Andre Laperriere, the executive director of the GODAN secretariat, to find out how the initiative hopes to use open data to reduce hunger worldwide.
From Bitcoin to Agriculture: How Can Farmers Benefit from Blockchain?
August 29, 2016
Emma Weston, CEO of Full Profile, and Sarah Nolet, founder of AgThentic, explain how blockchain is being used in agriculture, and the challenges ahead for this segment of the industry.
Farmers Business Network Raises $20m Series B-2 from Campbell Soup’s New Investment Fund
August 10, 2016
Acre Venture Partners led the Series B extension round for Farmers Business Network after pursuing the startup for a while.
Industry-in-Brief: Conservis Joins WGA Innovation Center, Costco Offers Loans to Organic Farmers, more
April 22, 2016
The farm management software platform has opened a new office at WGA’s center in Salinas, while Costco is making loans to organic farmers as demand grows, and find out how many billionaires are getting farm subsidies.
Farmobile Addresses Data Privacy Concerns with Transparency Contracts for Farmers
March 17, 2016
The Kansas ag data startup hopes to address concerns from farmers about sharing their data, and provide another revenue stream for them.
The Challenges Facing UK Farmers and their Adoption of Agtech
December 2, 2015
The need to engage more effectively with ag scientists and other agtech stakeholders was one of the main challenges cited by UK farmers speaking at the Realizing our Economic and Agricultural Potential conference in Cambridge last month.
Why a Peanut Farmer from South Carolina Created a Facebook for Farmers
October 2, 2015
Pat Rogers, a fifth-generation peanut farmer from Blenheim, officially launched AgFuse in July to help farmers network and communicate more.
How Genetic Engineering is Helping Farmers Combat their Biggest Pests
July 29, 2015
UK-based research group Oxitec has started genetically engineering moths to make them infertile to help farmers control and reduce the destruction of their crops.
Increasing Agtech Partnerships: a Precursor to Consolidation in Precision Ag?
March 23, 2016
Last week Geosys partnered with Pessl Instruments and SST Software, while Farmers Edge announced a deal with The Weather Company. This follows a series of precision ag partnerships last year.
Industry-in-Brief: GMO Labeling Bill Dies, Precision Ag Partnerships Signed, Senate Addresses Honeybee Decline, more
March 20, 2016
General Mills has decided to label GMO foods in the wake of the GMO bill’s demise, while satellite imagery company Geosys partners with a precision ag platform and a weather station company, and Farmers Edge teams up with The Weather Company.
The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fasal bags $12m to expand precision farming operation, Danone offloads Horizon Organic
January 4, 2024
Plus… Steakholder Foods unveils a 3D-printed eel, and carbon removal startup Standard Biocarbon secures $5m for a new biochar production facility.
The Week in Agrifoodtech: Monarch Tractor’s $61m round, JBS’s cell meat bet & Bayer-Microsoft match
November 18, 2021
Monarch Tractor will scale its manufacturing capabilities; while Bayer and Microsoft said they’ll build “the go-forward infrastructure” for digital ag.
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft, Rabobank announce first round of carbon credits with agroforestry startup reNature
August 19, 2021
ReNature worked with a Brazilian farmer cooperative to generate the credits in partnership with Rabobank’s carbon marketplace, Acorn – with Microsoft the buyer.
Agro.Club raises $5m Series A funding to expand overseas, grow fintech offering
July 7, 2021
Agro.Club views itself as more than a marketplace, offering “commercial effectiveness” services and more to its corporate and farmer members.
This year’s biggest agrifoodtech IPO will probably involve a company you’ve definitely heard of
July 2, 2021
It could file its prospectus – seeking to raise a reported $10 billion at a $60 billion valuation – as soon as next week.
PastureMap merges with Soil Value Exchange to create Grassroots Carbon
April 15, 2021
Grassroots Carbon will tap PastureMap’s database of users to offer opportunities to earn carbon credits for sequestering carbon.
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