“We acquired the assets through an auction, so we’ve acquired the brand name, all the data sets, the customer contacts, essentially all the assets, and none of the liabilities,” says Almanac CEO Sumer Johal
Ag insights platform Gro Intelligence is calling it quits after failing to secure enough capital to stay afloat following a turbulent few months, AgFunderNews understands.
With all eyes on gas prices globally, here are some predictions for the winter ahead in the Northern Hemisphere.
The French startup will use the funding to accelerate its expansion into North America.
“We’ve reached an inflection point on climate adaptation, and there’s a growing sense of urgency around preparing supply chains,” said CEO Himanshu Gupta.
Agricultural strength, entrepreneurial focus, and collaboration continue to drive growth despite unprecedented challenges.
Israel’s SupPlant and US-based ClimaCell have joined forces to make precision ag insights more accessible to low-income farmers in emerging markets.
Agriculture is a weather-driven sector. Increasing weather variability due to a warmer atmosphere, coupled with Covid-19 supply chain disruptions and trade restrictions, are driving up food prices and increasing food insecurity in 2020, writes John Corbett.
Big Blue claims its weather monitoring tools can help farmers and agritech startups save costs and improve revenues through better decision-making.
The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.
From traceability to hemp to robots, if Barnes is right, 2020 is going to be a blockbuster year across the agricultural board.
Weather events have plagued US crop production throughout the year, including severe floods and an early freeze. Using Indigo’s GeoInnovation platform, we take a deeper look and ask, could technology have helped farmers weather the storms better?
Understory analyzes and processes data to create real-time datasets, views, and actionable information from historical, current and forecasted weather events to provide better insights and early detection of risks.
Regardless of where a farmer is located, knowing what Mother Nature may have in store is a key aspect of planning day-to-day management as well as long-term decisionmaking.
After one year of testing, Monsanto is collaborating with hyper-local weather data provider Understory to optimize the company’s seed production operation in Argentina.
KisanHub targets agriculture enterprises, not farmers like most precision ag services, meaning suppliers, processors, and retailers that own some of their own farmland, but also have a network of contract farmers, are the company’s customers.
Skymet provides climate, weather, and crop analytics to insurance companies, banks, agribusinesses, and public sector institutions in India.
Impossible Foods estimates that the new Oakland plant will be able to produce one million pounds of burgers per month, farms prepare for Hurrican Irma, and more.
Local businesses are starting to survey the damage wrought by the category 4 storm and remote sensing has a clear role to play, with companies turning their technology to help the recovery efforts.
South Texas farmers are reportedly racing to harvest crops before the imminent arrival of Hurricane Harvey on Texas’s gulf coast, Amazon is lowering Whole Foods prices, and more.
