Tag: decision support technology

11 years on: Conservis’ evolution into a fintech platform

January 8, 2020

“The last decade has been great, yet not without challenges,” Pat Christie, founder of Conservis tells AFN.

iUNU raises $7.5m for greenhouse ‘system-as-a-service’ using computer vision

February 28, 2019

iUNU hopes to take some of the manual data-entry aspects of greenhouse operation into the 21st century by automating as much of the process as possible.

AgFunder Invests in Trace Genomics $13m Series A for First Scalable Soil Microbiome Test

November 15, 2018

Trace Genomics has built the first scalable soil microbiome test to help farmers predict soil disease, soil health, and crop quality, using high-throughput DNA sequencing and machine learning.

Farmers Edge v. Farmobile Update: US Federal Court Rules in Favor of Farmers Edge in Counterclaim Trial

August 23, 2018

The legal battle over which company owns the right to a technology that gathers data from farm machinery took an unexpected turn this week when a federal court in Nebraska ruled in favor of Canadian precision agtech company Farmers Edge.

AgriWebb raises $10m Series A funding, acquires FarmWizard from Wheatsheaf

August 20, 2018

The deal includes the acquisition of FarmWizard, an established UK livestock management software company from Wheatsheaf the previous owner; the investment was part cash and part equity transfer.

Forget Self-Driving Tractors; Agriculture’s AI Should be Modeled on Iron Man

June 11, 2018

The Iron Man model of artificial intelligence — combining man and machine — could truly take agriculture into the next era of productivity, writes Joe Byrum.

RML Agtech: India’s Farmers Business Network?

July 12, 2017

RML Agtech is hoping to alleviate some of the pressures faced by India’s farmers with its multi-function, online agtech platform with some similarities to American startup Farmers Business Network.

How Decisive Farming Hopes to Differentiate Itself in Frothy Digital Ag Space

November 3, 2016

Decisive Farming recently raised $6 million in Series A funding and focuses on one key area to keep the competition at bay.

The Most Successful Agtech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of

October 19, 2016

Agworld, a farm management software company out of Western Australia, has been on the agtech scene since 2012 and has 65 million paid acres under management.

What do Monsanto’s Plans to Open Up its Digital Platform Mean for the Agriculture Industry?

August 18, 2016

Monsanto has made the first move towards building a centralized and open digital platform for farmers to access agronomic data and analysis from a range of providers through its subsidiary Climate Corporation.