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How The AgTech Investment Boom Will Create A Wave Of Agriculture Unicorns

01/19/18, 05:32 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech, Investing

Arama Kukutai & Spencer Maughan for Forbes: With indoor farming, disruptive retail, along with genome and microbial tech all vying for the big dollars, there is understandable angst for the "have nots" trying to attract capital to compete with the "have mores."

Ag Startup Inocucor Adds $9.5M for Microbes that Improve Yields, Soil

01/17/18, 05:50 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Investing, Start up

Frank Vinluan for Xconomy: When applied to plant seeds or on farm fields, or used in indoor growing operations, the company says these products can help improve crop yields, shorten growing periods, and help form healthier and more resilient soil.

Why pink is the new green at this farm in Dubai

01/15/18, 05:35 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech, Indoor Farming, lighting

Sapna Dhanwani for News XPRESS: New research shows that plants dont necessarily need the whole spectrum of ROYGBV lights. According to scientists, pink light - a combination of red and blue wave lengths -- is all that they really need to grow.

What John Deere's 'Lettuce Robot' Means For Green Agriculture

01/10/18, 05:57 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech, Precision Farming, Sensors

Desiree Kaplan for GreenMatters: Basically, the robot is towed behind a tractor and uses its cameras to automatically identify, target, and destroy weeds with nearly perfect accuracy.

10 AG Mergers and Acquistions from 2017

01/02/18, 05:41 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, Mergers

Gil Gullickson for Successful Farming: In a down agricultural economy, firms look to mergers and acquisitions to gain efficiencies.

Former cannabis activist's agtech ideas are game-changers

12/27/17, 07:19 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech

Brian Blum for Israel21c: Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies has one technology to stabilize plant root temps and another to irrigate farms with dew condensation.

Bay Area aerial imaging startup teams up to detect disease in crops before outbreaks

12/15/17, 05:39 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, drones, Software and Smarts, Technology Discussions

Seung Lee for The Mercury News: An Oakland-based startup is sending its aerial imaging technology to the Midwestern plains to help farmers detect pests and diseases in their corn and soybean fields before an outbreak.

Case IH forging ahead with 'Farming 4.0'…but what is it?

12/13/17, 05:49 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Big Data, Precision Farming, Tools and Equipment

Jim Breen for Agriland: As a leading farm equipment company, we strive to anticipate technological change. Case IH already offers technologies that play a part in this exciting new era.

This precision farm machine can shape the future of India's agriculture

12/06/17, 05:50 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Precision Farming | AgTech, Harvesting, Precision Farming

Pranbihanga Borpuzari for ET Online: A robotic arm uses these coordinates to pick the cotton and the arm, then uses a vacuum for precision picking of cotton and avoids picking any other contaminant.

How Cannabis Farmers Helped Create the Indoor Farming Industry

12/04/17, 05:58 AM | Lighting, Precision Farming | AgTech, Cannabis, vertical farming

Gabe Blanchet, Co-Founder, CEO of Grove via The Spoon: While todays indoor farming owes a whole lot to the cannabis, NASA and greenhouse research, my focus in this piece is on the formative impact pot growers had on this industry.

Farmer's Business Network, Inc. Announces $110 Million Series D Funding

12/01/17, 05:50 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Lighting | AgTech, Big Data, Investing

Funding Enables Rapidly Growing Farmer Network to Accelerate the Independent Digital Farm Economy

This 'Plantscaper' Could Provide 500 Metric Tons of Organic Food

11/27/17, 05:33 AM | Precision Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, Indoor Farming, vertical farming

Shelby Rogers for Interesting Engineering: Plantagon could help solve food shortages around the world and save 1,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from traditional farming methods.

The Hydroponic, Robotic Future of Farming in Greenhouses

11/22/17, 05:45 AM | Precision Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, robotics

Matt Simon for Wired: The company is developing machine learning algorithms that will automatically detect diseased plants and kick them out of the system before the sickness spreads. Underdeveloped plants would also get the boot.

With Vertical Farms, Food Banks are Growing their Own Produce to Fight Hunger

11/20/17, 05:30 AM | Precision Farming, Supply Chain | AgTech, Containers, vertical farming

Jody Helmer for Civil Eats: Vertical farms allow food banks to grow their own produce with high-tech systems in an effort to fight food insecurity year-round.

Sensors applied to plant leaves warn of water shortage

11/17/17, 05:58 AM | Lighting, Supply Chain | AgTech, Sensors

Anne Trafton for MIT News Office: MIT engineers have created sensors that can be printed onto plant leaves and reveal when the plants are experiencing a water shortage

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