Technology

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Henry Gordon-Smith is founder of urban farming consultancy Agritecture and is today launching a new urban farm planning software tool called Agritecture Designer.  Every so often, something happens that changes everything. Maybe it was your wedding day, the birth of a child, a hurricane, or 9/11. COVID-19 is one of those moments, […]

[ad_1] Now more than ever farmers are probably looking for ways to bring more income as an uncertain financial future lies ahead. Markets are taking unpredictable cartwheels, consumers are abandoning traditional buying patterns and the supply chain is on a topsy turvy tailspin. Yet, the same problems that so many agrifood tech startups were working […]

[ad_1] New Zealand’s largest e-commerce company is re-listing online livestock and feed sales as the country enters the third week of a Covid-19 lockdown which has severely restricted farmers’ ability to buy, sell, and feed their animals. When New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country would go into a strict ‘alert level four‘ […]

[ad_1] Editor’s note: Jeanae DuBois is director of growth marketing at Shift3 Technologies, a mobile and web app developer based in Fresno, US.  Traditional farming technology is developed with large companies and large farms in mind because that’s where the biggest profit margin is to be found. This means smaller farming operations often find that […]

[ad_1] The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is launching a S$30 million ($21 million) grant to boost the country’s agrifood industry, as the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare the fragilities in Southeast Asia’s food supply chain. The fund is dubbed ’30×30 Express’ in reference to Singapore’s goal of domestically sourcing at least 30% of its food by […]

[ad_1] Many of the world’s leading industries are grinding to a halt as governments across the globe attempt to thwart the further spread of Covid-19. Industries that involve bringing large numbers of people together physically are bearing the brunt, including sporting events, restaurants, education, and tourism. But there are a few that have been deemed […]

[ad_1] An agtech deal which would’ve seen one of New Zealand’s largest agribusinesses go global has been killed off due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) shareholders have voted against the proposed acquisition of a majority stake in Afimilk, an Israeli provider of tech to the dairy industry. The New Zealand company – […]

[ad_1] Humans are not alone in experiencing complications related to pregnancy and birth. Any livestock farmer who has spent some time in the trenches can regale you with a tale or two about moonlight bovine midwifery or the art of repositioning a backward lamb in the unaccommodating birth canal of a labor-weary ewe. “The swine […]

[ad_1] As the nation’s leading state for corn, pork, eggs, and renewable fuels, it is no secret that Iowa is a world leader in agriculture production. However, a fast-growing entrepreneurial ecosystem is proving that the state can also grow the next generation of technology businesses to serve the worlds’ farmers, consumers and agricultural industries. Over […]

[ad_1] Jakarta-based social commerce startup Chilibeli has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Alto Partners, Golden Gate Ventures, Kinesys Group, and Sequoia Capital’s Surge accelerator also participated in the round. Chilibeli is a group-buying network that aims to connect farmers and suppliers directly to consumers. To achieve this, it […]

[ad_1] Though the storms of hundreds of billions of locusts ravaging crops across East Africa have been the worst in seventy years, most crop damage around the world relates to something more fundamental — water, whether that’s floods, droughts or impurities. (Even the locusts themselves breed best after unusually heavy rainfall.) One way to monitor […]

[ad_1] As we all “shelter in place” and “socially distance” ourselves, we are learning a lot about what we can live without. And what we can’t. Agri-foodtech investors seem to be collectively counting their blessings in that respect. “We probably have it better than many of our generalist VC peers because the only thing people […]