Cargill will enroll US cotton growers in its RegenConnect program that pays farmers for implementing soil health practices.
The statement calls asks corporations to tackle the financial risks associated with ongoing deforestation along their operations and global supply chains.
Like most corporates the size of GrainCorp and many of the world’s agribusinesses, the company is not positioned or organized in a way that makes it possible to survey the startup scene as often as necessary. Step in TERRA, the accelerator from RocketSpace and Rabobank.
The startup has an SaaS platform that provides users with forward-looking views of commodity markets that they can translate into actionable business decisions.
People fundamentally misdiagnose the opportunity in digital agriculture when they sum it up as “grow more with less” write Jess Bollinger and Adam Wolf of Arable.
Data analytics are bringing about the end of commodity business in food and agriculture, writes Mike Neal.
Farmers are all too familiar with the rampant uncertainty that riddles the markets and crops every season, so they should consider putting together a hedging strategy, writes Howard Marella.
Drew Fox asks, is farmland investment the best way to access the opportunity in agriculture, or is there a better solution?
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
This year will be the worst year of the commodity price downturn for US row crop farmers as many enter their third year of negative net incomes, according to Rabobank Food & Agriculture.
It’s been quite a year for aWhere, which closed its $7 million Series A round of funding in September 2014 on AgFunder, as the company sets its sights on the financial markets.
Farmland Partners, the listed farmland real estate investment trust, has launched a loan program for farmers to help bridge operating costs amid commodity price slump.
According to the American Association of Port Authorities, “The United States is served by some 360 commercial ports that provide approximately 3,200 cargo and passenger
