Market Watch
June 4, 2020
Agro.Club, a U.S.-based startup transforming the way the agriculture industry buys and sells, has initiated plans to expand into Europe and has already launched operations in North America following the closure of a $1.5M seed round led by Speedinvest, with participation from Elevator Ventures, the...
Market Watch
June 3, 2020
One of the overriding messages for those in the business of agriculture in 2020, comes down to roughly this: Control what you can, and make the best of the previously unthinkable, writes Jackie Pucci at CropLife.
“In times like this,...
Market Watch
June 2, 2020
Agri-foodtech accelerator GROW said it will be looking for startups from across Asia Pacific to participate in its new program focused on food security, reports Miguel Cordon at Tech in Asia. GROW is a global accelerator backed by Enterprise...
Market Watch
June 1, 2020
The U.K.’s largest lowland estate has struck a deal with a precision farming firm to reduce food waste in the production stages, writes Rachel Martin at AgriLand. Elveden, a world-class producer and purveyor of local and regional food excellence,...
Market Watch
May 29, 2020
As trusted advisors, it’s important we partner with growers to ensure equipment demos are a good use of growers’ time and most importantly, safe for all involved.
In a perfect world, every grower customer has a...
Market Watch
May 27, 2020
The Bosch Group has increased its investment in The Yield Technology Solutions, an Australian Internet of Things ag-tech business, reports Food Magazine. As the major shareholder, the increase takes the Bosch Group investment to a total of $13.3 million.
The...
Market Watch
May 26, 2020
By now, farmers are months into managing their business through a global pandemic with no guidebook, user manual, or advice from prior generations that can be used for reference, writes Granular's Julie DiNatale at CropLife. It is all new...
Market Watch
May 26, 2020
Cognitive Pilot has announced what it claimed is “the world’s largest autonomous driving project for agricultural machinery” with Rusagro Group LLC. The companies plan to test Cognitive Agro Pilot, a Level 3 autonomous driving system for combine harvesters, tractors,...
Market Watch
May 26, 2020
From the Marketplace to Powering Grower Portals
We started AgVend to help both ag retailers and growers leverage technology to do business together more efficiently. We aimed to give our Partner Retailers a new channel of revenue to combat the...
Market Watch
May 25, 2020
A New Zealand based scientific traceability company says businesses need to be aware of the risks of counterfeiting and fraud in fresh produce, as agricultural exports de-commoditize in favor of brand premium products, reports Hortidaily.
"Australian (and New Zealand) agriculture...
Market Watch
May 22, 2020
The Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, in collaboration with Microsoft, has created the Purdue Food and Agricultural Vulnerability Index online dashboard to quantify the potential risk to the supply of agricultural products as a result of COVID-19 farm and...
Market Watch
May 21, 2020
Geosys has launched a new field alert system called Field Focus for their Croptical tool. This makes the application more proactive for users by applying advanced satellite data analytics to evaluate the performance of all fields being monitored.
Now, users...
Market Watch
May 21, 2020
FMC Corp. has announced the launch of Arc farm intelligence, an exclusive precision agriculture platform that enables growers and advisors to more accurately predict pest pressure before it becomes a problem. Arc farm intelligence is the first mobile platform to...
Market Watch
May 20, 2020
Raven Industries, Inc. has announced the release of Slingshot Fleet Tracking. Backed by Razor Tracking, the platform allows users to wirelessly track the location and other important information about their trucks, vehicles, trailers, tanks, and other moving assets. With...
Market Watch
May 19, 2020
A New Zealand ag-tech company says the horticulture and fresh produce industry is heading for a major shift in the coming years, in terms of the take-up of new technology, reports FreshPlaza.
Autogrow specializes in the research and development of...
Market Watch
May 18, 2020
Is a new ‘green revolution' within reach? Agriculture is a multibillion dollar industry and one of the largest in the world, accounting for almost 1% of GDP in the U.K., 6% in the U.S. and 12% in Australia, writes...
Market Watch
May 15, 2020
Six years ago, the leadership at Ohio cooperative Luckey Farmers, Inc., could see clearly that its business was in need of change, writes Paul Schrimpf at CropLife. Internally, managers and employees were struggling with efficiency and customer management processes...
Market Watch
May 14, 2020
With movements even within districts restricted, agri-techs like NinjaCart are procuring more from farmers and even moving produce to customers’ homes, writes Ishaan Gera at Financial Express. NinjaCart, for instance, has partnered with Zomato, Swiggy and Dunzo, and has...
Market Watch
May 13, 2020
Moleaer, a leading nanobubble technology company, is expanding into Latin America, having formed a new distribution partnership with Kapicua to bring its innovative, patented technology to the region’s agriculture industry.
Nanobubbles, 2,500 times smaller than a grain of salt, enhance...
Market Watch
May 13, 2020
Sound Agriculture has come up with an innovative way of looking at crop nutrition that is it helping increase yields for growers and is allowing them to reduce fertilizer use or replace it if they’ve lost some mid-season.
At the...