Recently acquired by an affiliate of Iowa’s C9 Capital, Utah-based Fusionware uses blockchain tech to track produce from seed to shelf.
In this roundtable, execs from Waycool, Future Group, and RipePlanet give a detailed picture of Covid-19’s impact on the fresh produce sector.
While Gaston Marquevich is thankful his fresh produce operation Generation Farms in Florida and Georgia has always sold into grocery stores, the Covid-19 pandemic has placed other pressures on his vertically-integrated farm business.
Covid-19 is impacting much more than restaurants and grocery stores; farmworkers, logistics suppliers and more are struggling to keep up and it’s impacting the supply of fresh produce and staples. Here’s a look at the impact on pricing for a few food and ag products.
Local food is hot but there’s a disconnect between local producers and grocery retailers that Foodshed.io is hoping to solve.
IntelloLabs is working to solve the logistical and potentially brand-busting challenge of quality control in the high-value crops industry using computer vision.
“Vertical farming is not especially relevant in India,” says Omnivore’s Mark Kahn, but its equivalent is a company that galvanizes and coordinates the tens of thousands of already existing greenhouses dotted on the outskirts of India’s major cities, like Clover.
Sufresca, an Israeli startup designing edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb plastic packaging, has just raised $500,000 seed funding from the agri-foodtech VC Rimonim, the company disclosed to AFN.
The startup is trying to create a clearinghouse for fresh perishable produce products and hopes to expand beyond the US to other top-producing regions.
Yamaha Motor Ventures’ Nolan Paul tells AFN the biggest challenges for robotics and why he thinks Advanced Farm Technologies will go all the way.
Flitt is an online matchmaking platform for food producers, traders and transport providers.
When consumers can understand just bit more about what biotech is, how it works, and how it relates to them personally, they’re supportive of GMO, according to Jennifer Armen, vice president at Okanagan Specialty Fruits.
Agribusiness marketplaces are a hot trend in agrifood tech at the moment as entrepreneurs look to create more options for farmers than existing distribution channels to give them more flexibility and hopefully more money in their pockets.
