Illinois-based CashRent operates a marketplace that uses data to help farmers and landowners settle on an equitable price for farmland rentals.
From under-marketing your crop and lowballing yield estimates to ‘fixing’ contracts based on market volatility, here are the biggest mistakes you can make in grain marketing.
One of Covid-19’s biggest agrifoodtech casualties so far is the New Zealand farmer co-op’s scuppered $70 million investment in Afimilk.
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.
Although many farmers are preparing for financial hardship due to Covid-19, it may cause some to see agtech in a new light.
Agriculture technology startups and established companies face many challenges in a tight marketplace for farmers and ag professionals.
From driving equipment to building a fence to stacking hay, there was always something new for Elyssa McFarland to learn growing up on her family’s grain and livestock farm near Columbus Junction, Iowa. Yet, the area that intrigued her the most was right under her feet.
Naturama Aragau is an information campaign aimed at helping consumers and farmers learn more about regenerative food production in Switzerland.
From major equipment manufacturers’ forays into robotics to the emergence of new startups looking to improve farmer awareness of field activity, here’s what to watch for in the year ahead in the US, according to experienced agtech entrepreneur Corbett Kull.
It can be hard to explain exactly how Intelligent Growth Solution’s tech works, so we caught up with Niall Skinner, lead mechanical engineer at IGS to get an in-depth explanation.
Editor’s Note: AFN’s Lauren Stine collaborated with Successful Farming’s Laurie Bedord to interview Lynn Rohrscheib about her farm and use of technology.
I’m heading to the second annual Poultry Tech Summit in a few weeks to find out.
Ag historian Darcy Maulsby has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between Iowa’s farmers and the non-farming community.
In this new series, we will highlight some of the key players helping to define the regenerative agriculture ecosystem including academics, farmers, technologists, agronomists, and investors.
AFN spoke to agtech founders and designers at the Grow Asia panel on August 15 about the keys to building successful apps for farmers in Asia’s developing markets.
The future of row crop production is exciting and compelling, and as innovators and investors discuss the “possible,” an important question lingers: how – and how fast – will the farmers evolve their practices and business models to be successful as tomorrow’s farm leaders?
New York is a leading agricultural state in the US and NYFVI is hoping to spur agrifood tech innovation in the state by letting a group of farmers pick which grant projects get funded each year.
“Agricultural land is generally being managed in a manner that is degrading the land resource. In particular, the soil function and ecosystem biodiversity,” Teague tells AFN.
The British Government’s Food, Farming and Environment Minister, Michael Gove, has promised to deliver an ambitious new UK food strategy in 2019, embrace a properly
Broadly they’re hoping for more collaboration, better tech solutions built with farmers, increased understanding of food’s role in climate change mitigation, more realism in funding, and greater diversity.
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