Meet the Founder: Neatleaf’s Elmar Mair discusses the critical role of autonomy in ag: “It takes a lot of anxiety out of cultivation”
Neatleaf’s CEO and co-founder talks ag robotics, scaling a hardware startup, and why it started in cannabis.
Neatleaf’s CEO and co-founder talks ag robotics, scaling a hardware startup, and why it started in cannabis.
After seven years at Deere, the agtech vet joins Rootwave as a newly appointed board member.
“We have a very clear strategy that will allow us to establish a brand based on our quality,” says Oishii co-founder Hiroki Koga.
California-based farm-ng aims to lower the adoption and innovation barriers for small and medium growers adopting robotics.
Burro will use the new funds to broaden its product line and reach more areas of agriculture struggling with labor.
Joraanstad unpacks the last decade spent trying to digitize agriculture, and what to look forward to in the next decade.
Oishii’s RubÄ« Tomato is grown in the company’s state-of-the-art vertical farm and available now in select Whole Foods stores in the US.
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of indoor agriculture’s future, but there are many more to be optimistic.
Jorge Heraud, VP of automation and autonomy at John Deere, talks tractors, sprayers and educating the public about the vital role of farmers.
4AG has developed an autonomous harvesting robot it says can greatly alleviate labor challenges in the mushroom industry.
The UK-based farm robotics company talks labor shortages, AI, startup collaboration and more in this interview with AgFunderNews.
The annual Farm Robotics Challenge sets university students to work on solving real-world agricultural issues with robotics-based solutions.
Pow.bio, a Berkeley-based startup promising to change the economics of precision fermentation by enabling a continuous process, has raised a $9.5m series A round led by Re:Food and Thia Ventures.
As artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics continue to evolve, smart farms will become even smarter.Â
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?
Pennsylvania-based Four Growers just released its second-generation automatic harvester for greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
The company’s first product will be a “clean propagation system” to ensure healthier, higher-quality plants.
Robots that automate the task of weeding are far and away the most popular right now amongst specialty crop growers, says Western Growers.
Tepbac stands out for its unwavering commitment to bettering the lives of shrimp farmers and improving the aquaculture industry of Vietnam.
Carbon Robotics will bring its LaserWeeder robot to new parts of North America and launch into international markets in the near future.
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