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Where startups are innovating in AgTech
According to AgFunder, 2018 was a record-breaking year for agrifood technology investment, building upon the previous year. This period saw startups raising 43 percent more…
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Middle Bit: Iowa AgriTech Accelerator hosts second annual AgTech Day
The Iowa AgriTech Accelerator hosted its second annual AgTech Day on Tuesday, March 26. This year, nine early-stage agtech startups gathered at Maple Ventures in…
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Nine AgTech Start-Ups Participate in Accelerator’s AgTech Day
The Iowa AgriTech Accelerator hosted its second annual AgTech Day on Tuesday, March 26. This year, nine early-stage AgTech start-ups from across the country gathered…
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How advances in AgTech are reshaping farming (Includes interview)
Agtech is far-reaching and classed as a “horizontal” sector, covering all groups of technology and business models from inside the farm gate and its world…
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Here are 3 important things the Australian agtech industry should be doing better –
Australia gets a lot of things right when it comes to agricultural research and development (R&D), and we are generally recognised as being one of…
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Australia: Agtech, Robots, Cotton, and Good People
Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia. In…
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The AgTech Industry May Be Growing Up, AgFunder Reports
The AgTech industry is continuing to mature, at least according to AgFunder’s latest AgriFood Tech Investing Report published on March 7. This “record breaking year” for the industry included…
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Why the agtech boom isn’t your typical tech disruption
Five years ago, almost no one knew what agtech was. Inside the industry, we didn’t even know what to call what we were doing. But…
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Swarm Farm Robotics aims to break new agtech ground from its farm base
Terry Sim, February 22, 2019 Swarm Farm Robotics robots on the job THINGS are moving for farm-based agtech company Swarm Farm Robotic Agriculture, but founder…
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