Tag: data analytics

Sencrop closes $18m Series B round to go global with its ag weather stations

May 10, 2022

The French startup will use the funding to accelerate its expansion into North America.

Lightsmith Group leads $60m round for digital farm management startup Solinftec

May 2, 2022

Brazil- and US-based Solinftec will expand availability of its precision ag farm management platform to additional growers in North and South America.

Brief: Solinftec & Growmark collaborate on new farm robot for field management

March 24, 2022

They’re building a robotic system that can monitor crop health and feed data-informed insights back to farmers.

IUNU raises $24m Series B funding to bring ‘true autonomy’ to CEA

March 16, 2022

Seattle-based IUNU will use the new funds to expand its platform, which provides computer vision and data analytics to CEA growers.

Q&A: Amplified Ag’s female leaders discuss the future of CEA & container farming

March 11, 2022

Jackie Jones and Rachel Downing are two of the major forces behind CEA company Amplified Ag and its mission to evolve container farming.

Q&A: SupPlant’s Revital Kremer on bringing precision ag to more female farmers worldwide

March 9, 2022

The chief technology officer is leading the charge to make precision irrigation available to women smallholders worldwide.

Verdant Robotics unveils ‘multi-action’ tech for specialty crops that handles spraying, weeding & more

February 22, 2022

The Bay Area startup has unveiled its autonomous hardware and software tool for weeding, spraying, and crop modeling on the farm.

Why FoodShot Global is putting bioactive foods at the center of human, planetary & societal health

February 11, 2022

The US-based investment platform’s third installment wants to make food more nutritious, sustainable, and accessible through bioactive elements.

Aigen gets $4m from NEA, AgFunder to boost farm sustainability with solar robots

January 18, 2022

The Kirkland, Washington startup offers farmers high-precision plant and soil health management.

How surplus food marketplace Full Harvest will spend its $23m Series B funding

January 17, 2022

Full Harvest’s recent Series B fundraise will go towards accelerating data insights for sellers and buyers of surplus and imperfect food.

Olam calls on Brightseed’s AI to uncover health properties of garlic & pepper

January 12, 2022

The head of Olam’s spices business said that Brightseed’s data insights “will help us unlock the health potential and differentiation in our spice supply and fuel future innovation.”

For Lentera Africa, remote work is the future of farming on the continent

November 26, 2021

“The potential for remote farming is huge,” says CEO Moses Kimani.

UPDATE: Bayer inks new digital ag data infrastructure deal with Microsoft: how significant is it?

November 19, 2021

It’s the norm for journalists to be skeptical of corporate partnering announcements. But am I reading too much into this one?

Why it is important to evolve from precision farming to Agriculture 4.0

November 5, 2021

Agriculture 4.0 will give farmers the opportunity to diversify their businesses like never before, increasing both profitability and sustainability.

Continuum Ag founder on the role of soil data in regenerative farming

October 21, 2021

The Iowan platform helps growers manage soil health data to implement practices like no-till farming and cover cropping.

Bushel acquires Cargill & ADM’s GrainBridge

October 12, 2021

The acquisition brings added data analytics capabilities to Bushel, which it says will help farmers and facilities make more profitable decisions.

The future of geospatial imaging in agriculture, according to Aker Tech’s Orlando Saez

October 5, 2021

Orlando Saez is a panellist at the AgTech NEXT conference on 6 October, where he’ll be speaking about geospatial imaging’s role in ag.

Brief: Farm data company Ag-Analytics acquires land research platform AcreValue

September 30, 2021

It has also struck partnerships with Farmer Mac and Indigo Ag, which will use the combined platforms to further their own financing and carbon offerings.