Leveraging big data for better sweet potatoes
When it comes to growing sweet potatoes, North Carolina is a superstar. Now it’s turning to tech to get even better at it.
When it comes to growing sweet potatoes, North Carolina is a superstar. Now it’s turning to tech to get even better at it.
Agriculture is a weather-driven sector. Increasing weather variability due to a warmer atmosphere, coupled with Covid-19 supply chain disruptions and trade restrictions, are driving up food prices and increasing food insecurity in 2020, writes John Corbett.
The startup is using analytical chemistry, optical spectroscopy, and machine learning to create a universal data-based language for evaluating food quality.
Mercaris, an organic and non-GMO trading platform and data service, thinks Covid-19 brings market risks as well as unique opportunities.
The next harvest is becoming a matter of economic survival for some growers in uncertain times. With trade wars, pandemics and market plunges, farmers now more than ever need every edge they can get to make the most of the growing season. One thing they can do to up their game is to take inspiration from fighter pilots, writes Joe Byrum.
For the Canadian startup, traceability and food safety are about finding correlations across the food system – and not just telling a product’s story.
Leaf wants to make it easier for agtech innovators to create apps by harnessing clean, standardized, and aggregated data from multiple sources.
Xarvio is now pulling data from Arable’s hyperlocal weather data sensors to help farmers improve the timing and efficacy of their fungicide applications, which will feed into BASF’s new business model plans for farmers.
Prospera recently announced its partnership with Valley Irrigation to combine its sensor-based analytics software with Valley’s pivot irrigation systems.
The InsuResilience Investment Fund led Israel-based Agritask’s Series A funding round for its application in expanding farm and crop insurance to smallholder farmers.
Serbian startup Agremo pitched its farm data management software last month to a panel of judges and audience.
The Israeli startup combs thousands of recipes, menus, and social media conversations to figure out what food and beverage trends consumers will crave next.
The Israeli agritech company FruitSpec — which is carving out a niche using hyperpectral imagery to count fruits —is set to officially close its $4 million Series A fundraise at the Agrivest conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Get the scoop here!
Introducing GROW accelerator’s first cohort starting with two startups that are taking aim at India’s agricultural problems – Viridis RS and Tractorjunction.com.
Charlotte Hebebrand, is director-general of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), a nonprofit organization that represents the global fertilizer industry, on issues related to the promotion
Tired? Anxious? Chronic pain? Trouble sleeping? There’s probably a strain of cannabis for that and Namaste Technologies is using an AI-powered app to help you find it.
KisanHub specializes in squeezing out actionable insights from raw, complex and unwieldy food supply chain data sets
Data management company Farmobile plans to use the new funding to help it expand its aggregation and data-for-profit services worldwide. For Ag Growth International, it could mean integrates more data-focused tech into its equipment offerings.
In this second edition of Future Food, I chat to Robb about his food preferences, his contrarian views of the plant-based meat trend, the role of big data in food, and how the Amazon deal came about.
Flurosense, Agworld, PCT Agcloud, CSIRO, and AgLink Australia recently won a grant to build an interoperable agronomic analytics engine to resolve many of the inherent challenges surrounding agricultural data. Anastasia Volkova tells us more.
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