Market Watch
January 29, 2021
A new open-source software platform from Cargill is aiming to make collaboration the new industry norm.
Irrigation
September 10, 2020
Israeli soil sensing and data analytics startup CropX has acquired New Zealand-based Regen, a cloud-based, precision effluent and irrigation decision support tool company, reports AgFunder News.
The acquisition marks CropX’s foray into the New Zealand market. It has longstanding ties...
Market Watch
March 25, 2020
Almost all sections of society are vulnerable to climate change, but I would put smallholder farmers in the “severe” risk category, writes Hemendra Mathur at AgFunder News. Small and marginal farmers in India, with landholdings of less than two...
Market Watch
December 20, 2019
Telus, the Canadian telecommunications company, has acquired Canadian farmtech startup Decisive Farming, reports Ag Funder News.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Remi Schmaltz, CEO of Decisive Farming, confirmed the transaction.
“Yes, Decisive Farming has joined the TELUS family. TELUS...
Market Watch
August 28, 2019
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV), the venture arm of Yamaha Motor Co, led the $7.5 million Series A funding round for Advanced Farm Technologies (AFT), which develops robotic farming equipment like the T-6 robotic strawberry harvester, which uses multiple robotic...
Market Watch
July 15, 2019
Last year, we joined private equity leader TPG as an investor in Brazilian farm operations management startup Solinftec, which we called at the time “the most successful agtech company no one has ever heard of,” writes Rob LeClerc at...
Market Watch
May 6, 2019
Just as it has for most of its history, the ample and multi-leveled agricultural and agri-food sector of Canada continues to play a fundamental role in the country’s economy, writes Remi Schmaltz on AgFunderNews.
Experts predict that all agricultural and...
Market Watch
March 18, 2019
Earlier this month, a Russian agtech startup called Intterra entered into a partnership with global agribusiness Syngenta to use its digital platform in Russia, connecting more than 100 farmers across 2 million hectares (nearly 5 million acres) of cropland in 2019...