Danish startup Agreena aims to help farmers build a meaningful revenue stream by implementing, tracking and measuring regenerative farming practices.
Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection and, ultimately, commodity farming.
The Cape Town-based startup considers itself a farming company enabled by technology, rather than a tech company working in ag, says CEO James Paterson.
“The potential for remote farming is huge,” says CEO Moses Kimani.
The Ghanaian startup allows crowdfunders – which it calls ‘digifarmers’ – to invest in African smallholdings, and then digitalizes the ag value chain end-to-end.
The Israeli company secured the mega-funding from L Catteron and agrifood corporates BRF, Cargill, CJ CheilJedang, and Thai Union.
From Landsat through to modern-day providers like Planet, satellite imagery has had a role to play in agriculture. But many misconceptions persist.
The Minnesotan startup sees partnerships as the best route to expanding its footprint, rather than developing ancillary solutions and services in-house.
AI that learns through ’embodied intelligence’ could boost agricultural resilience with its greater capacity to adapt to rapidly evolving climatic events.
Today, Earthbound agriculture. Tomorrow, mining asteroids in outer space…
Remote sensing startups like France’s SpaceSense generate satellite data insights for precision agriculture by developing pattern recognition algorithms.
From Ukraine to Syria to Yemen, satellite data – including imagery and AI-driven analytics – is helping to track the impact of conflict on agriculture.
A recent study from EOS Crop Monitoring identified millions of acres of “shadow” farmland in Ukraine, offering a case study on satellite data’s value in agriculture.
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