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.
An organic, vegan food delivery service, a Spanish e-grocer, and a social impact-focused meal delivery company are some of this week’s fundings as the food e-commerce segment shows no signs of slowing.
The agricultural drones market is flying. A new report from RnR Market Research states that it’ll be worth nearly $3.7 billion by 2022. DroneDeploy also reported that it’s its largest commercial sector for DroneDeploy.
Leading seed accelerator Y Combinator featured five agtech startups at its recent Demo Day. Here some of them discuss the benefits of the program.
Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of Salesforce joined the round led by OurCrowd and Eshbol Investments.
How three new startups are approaching satellite imagery for the agriculture industry in slightly different ways.
Thrive Accelerator, the Salinas, CA-based food and agriculture startup program, has chosen 12 startups to take part in its 8-week program this year.
Last week Geosys partnered with Pessl Instruments and SST Software, while Farmers Edge announced a deal with The Weather Company. This follows a series of precision ag partnerships last year.
General Mills has decided to label GMO foods in the wake of the GMO bill’s demise, while satellite imagery company Geosys partners with a precision ag platform and a weather station company, and Farmers Edge teams up with The Weather Company.
The Kansas ag data startup hopes to address concerns from farmers about sharing their data, and provide another revenue stream for them.
Pontifax Food and Agriculture Technology Fund, a private equity fund targeting $200m overall, has launched under the umbrella of Israeli life sciences venture capital firm Pontifax.
ATC, which is currently raising $5 million on AgFunder, will soon deliver the first retrofit of a tractor with its commercial product eDrive to FamilyFarms Group.
Israeli startup Saturas has secured $1 million to develop its precision irrigation sensor technology for permanent crops.
FarmLink’s division, rules around healthy eating and food labeling, and updates in the GMO labeling debate make up this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
A busy week of fundings brings newly-named Indigo, Understory, American Botanicals and Gaia Herbs to this week’s Fundings-in-Brief
2015 was a big year for Planet Labs, the satellite company. We caught up with Ryan Schacht, account executive for agriculture ahead of the World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in San Francisco to get an update.
2015 surpassed our mid-year expectations raising $4.6bn across 527 deals and representing 94% year over year growth.
Silent Herdsman is a startup in the growing wearables market for livestock, although it’s one of very few that have been funded by venture capital.
Steve Pitstick manages Pitstick Farms in Maple Park, Illinois and recently attended and spoke at PrecisionAg Innovation Series. Here he tells us some of his key takeaways from the day.
The soil sensor company recently launched its precision irrigation product WaterValve and is expanding into Japan with strategic help.
