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+Farm Featured at “AgTech's bright future: Growing food (and data) with IoT” Panel 

Agritecture’s designer Elaine Kung encouraged those developing ag tech IoT solutions to use +Farm, a DIY hydroponic farm, as a tool for prototyping and experimentation. 

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Mooji Meats Nets $3 Million for 3D-Printed Vegan Meat Acceleration

Good News Notes: “Y Combinator alumnus Mooji Meats, which specialises in whole cut plant-based meats, has raised £3 million in a seed funding round. The Good Startup, Collaborative Fund, Lever VC and AgFunder all participated in the round. Mooji says the funding will allow it to move away from the ground and sausage analogues common in the space. The company says that 70 percent of the…

The FarmLab team, including co-founders Sam Duncan (middle left) and Shahriar Jamshidi (middle right). Image courtesy of FarmLab.

FARMLAB THINKS IT CAN GET 1 MILLION FARMERS TO SEQUESTER 1 BILLION TONS OF CO2 BY 2025

A few blokes in NSW, Australia, appear to be daft. I wish them the best. I’m willing to believe that they have the technology.

On the other hand, fundamentally there is no carbon market. 

Agribusiness is progressively going to common and economical options in contrast to synthetic substances as shoppers rebuke hereditarily altered nourishments and concerns develop over Big Ag's job in environmental change. At the core of the pattern are advancements that saddle useful microorganisms in the dirt, including seed-coatings of normally happening microscopic organisms and parasites that can do similar work as conventional synthetic compounds, from warding off nuisances to helping plants prosper, as per a worldwide patent investigation by inquiring about firm GreyB Services. A great part of the examination in crop biotech is focused in the United States, China, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as indicated by the U.N. organization WIPO.

Solinftec Earns 2019 AgFunder Innovation Award

Solinftec Earns 2019 AgFunder Innovation Award – Business News Today – EIN News <link href="https://... Business News

Early Stage Ag Tech Investments Up 29 Percent

Investments in the early stages of agricultural technology in 2017 increased 29 percent, compared to 2016. AgFunder, a self-proclaimed online investment marketplace for agricultural technology, reports early stage investment in agriculture tech startups reached $10.1 billion in 2017, up 29 percent. The increase reverses a downward trend seen in 2016, when agriculture tech investing dropped nine…

Agricultural Giants Risk Being Left Behind in Agtech Boom

MAY 23, 2017 PAUL CUATRECASAS

Editor’s Note: Paul Cuatrecasas is CEO of Aquaa Partners, a specialist investment bank that advises growth-focused traditional companies on acquiring the right technology company.

There’s a real risk that the biggest agricultural companies in the world right now might not be the same in 10 years’ time. That doesn’t have to be the case, but if you look at the…