Tag: soil

The Center for Rural Affairs wants more grazing and soil health support from the 2018 farm bill

November 12, 2019

The 2018 farm bill included many new provisions for regenerative agriculture and the CRA is hoping administrative agencies make good use of the opportunities.

Regen Ag Renegade: How an investment banker turned farmer is making regenerative ag happen in Germany

October 22, 2019

Benedikt Bosel is regenerating his family’s farm in East Germany and inspiring other farmers in the region to do the same.

Why Dan Vradenburg joining Trace Genomics as CEO is a big deal

October 9, 2019

Daniel Vradenburg is the former president of Wilbur-Ellis and the board chair of Cavallo Ventures and now he's joining soil science startup Trace Genomics.

The Terraton Challenge seeks solutions to help make farmers “the heroes of climate change”

September 19, 2019

Indigo Agriculture is looking for new technologies that can help restore the world's soils through regenerative agriculture. Apply now to the Terraton Challenge!

Climate Corp Acquires Soil-Analysis Business of Solum, Inc.

Biome Makers secures $4m Series A in another sign that investors are digging soil science startups

August 7, 2019

Are you a terroir-ist? If so, you’ll understand — along with almost any winegrower — how sexy soil can be.

World Soil Day: Startups Aiming to Improve the Condition of Agricultural Soils

December 5, 2018

A growing number of stakeholders in the agricultural world have started asking more questions about whether conventional farming practices are causing irreparable harm to our soil ecosystem and whether there are any practices or technologies we can implement to reverse the damage.

8 Transformational Food Tech Startups

November 22, 2018

This Thanksgiving, we at AgFunder are thankful for our portfolio companies. Over the last year, we have invested in transformational food system companies, operating across the supply chain, from farm to fork.

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.

Ecological Farming: a Different Form of Agtech – exclusive report

January 13, 2016

Farmland fund manager SLM Partners argues that ecological farming provides an alternative way to produce more with less, through deeply science-based and knowledge-intensive farming systems.

AquaSpy’s Moeller: Agriculture is a Vertical Business; Tracking Weather is Not Enough

December 7, 2015

It's been a long road since 1998 to get AquaSpy technology into the hands 3,000 subscribing farmers and agribusinesses, CEO Bruce Moeller tells AgFunderNews.

InfoAg Conference Reveals Lessons for AgTech Investors

August 4, 2015

These are good days to be a precision agriculture company, but with so many new technologies coming to market, it's getting tough to discern which are poised to become “must haves” for growers, writes Gabriel Wilmoth of Syngenta Ventures who attended InfoAg last week.

How AgTech Helps One Texas Farmer Battle A Tough Farming Climate

July 15, 2015

Dale Artho’s family has been farming Texas’ panhandle region for three generations. As a result, Artho has unique insight on how agtech has changed the business of farming and what may be in store for the next generation of farmers.

5 Observations from GAI AgTech Week in San Francisco

July 6, 2015

As we look ahead to the Forbes AgTech Summit later this week, we took a moment to reflect on GAI’s AgTech Week, which took place two weeks ago in San Francisco, to make a few observations on what’s happening in agtech.

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Tag: soil

The Center for Rural Affairs wants more grazing and soil health support from the 2018 farm bill

Regen Ag Renegade: How an investment banker turned farmer is making regenerative ag happen in Germany

Why Dan Vradenburg joining Trace Genomics as CEO is a big deal

The Terraton Challenge seeks solutions to help make farmers “the heroes of climate change”

Biome Makers secures $4m Series A in another sign that investors are digging soil science startups

World Soil Day: Startups Aiming to Improve the Condition of Agricultural Soils

8 Transformational Food Tech Startups

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

Ecological Farming: a Different Form of Agtech – exclusive report

AquaSpy’s Moeller: Agriculture is a Vertical Business; Tracking Weather is Not Enough

InfoAg Conference Reveals Lessons for AgTech Investors

How AgTech Helps One Texas Farmer Battle A Tough Farming Climate

5 Observations from GAI AgTech Week in San Francisco

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