How Will Grower-Owned Digital Ag Tools Change the Game?
The Grower Information Services Cooperative (GiSC) and Mainstreet Data are teaming up with IBM to offer a suite of digital services for GiSC members.
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Ag Industry Brief: Y Combinator Sweet On Cultured Meat, Granular Partners with Planet, Another Startup Pays for Data, more
Granular and Monsanto have new partners, Y Combinator requests cultured meat proposals and more in this week's brief.
Checking in With Climate Corp’s Open Platform Strategy and the Future of Ag Data
The decision to make the platform open, Climate Corp's CTO Mark Young explains, was not only part of an effort to bring more value to customers, but also to move the digital ag space forward.
FarmerTrials.com is Offering Startups a New Way to Conduct Field Trials
There’s one thing that every new agtech startup needs when they want to sell their solution to farmers: proof that it works. And to get that, you need field trials.
Free Report: The Rise of a More Intelligent Food System
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.
Farmland Investment Platform to Offer Rare Returns Data for Investors, Farmers – exclusive
Collecting farmland performance data globally has been a bugbear for many investors for a long time. Map of Agriculture hopes to fill the information gap with a global resource for investors, and possibly farmers too.
USDA & Microsoft Call upon Private Sector to Combat Climate Change’s Impact on Farming
The UDSA and Microsoft have launched the Innovation Challenge, a contest offering access to large amounts of USDA data. Awards include cash prizes and the deadline is November.
Maritime Data Powerhouse Spire Announces Close of $40M Series B Round
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 handling facilities.” Food and farm products, including wheat and wheat flour, corn, soybeans, rice, cotton, and coffee are listed among the leading commodities shipped for domestic and foreign trade through U.S.
aWhere: The Climate Corp for the Other 500 Million Farmers
In comparison to the rest of the world, American farmers have it made when it comes to access to ag-technology. And in light of the global food security crisis, that’s a problem that affects everyone.
Fixing Ag’s Big Data Problem
Big data is a big problem in agriculture, and entrepreneur and ag-expert Lance Donny believes he can fix it.
Lance Donny, CEO of OnFarm Systems, grew up on a family farm in Fresno, CA.