by Travis Martin | Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
The past year has been tough for Indian farmers, and the hits just keep coming. New farm laws. Protests. The pandemic. Low rice exports. Fertilizer price increases. Some context: Mid-March marked four months since farmers have been protesting new farm laws that they...
by Travis Martin | Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tortuga AgTech is ramping up to build hundreds of automated harvest robots, and the company has producers pickin’ and investors grinnin’. Refresher: In 2017, Tortuga secured $2.4 million in seed capital to begin designing robots that could harvest fresh, delicate...
by Travis Martin | Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Honey, I shrunk the…corn pile. Last Friday’s WASDE report for the month of April projected U.S. corn supplies or carryover to be lower than expected, which drove futures for the grain to prices not seen in eight years. So are they hiding it under a bushel basket...
by Travis Martin | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
The U.S. blueberry industry is booming. USDA figures from 2019 pegged total U.S. harvested acres up 15% from 2018, with total production growing 21%, to 673 million pounds. A decade-long sprint to grow the domestic crop has acres up 60% from 2009.And most producers...
by Travis Martin | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another drone company. Guardian Agriculture, a Boston-based startup, just deposited a batch of seed money from seed businesses. $10.5 billion from big-time players [Bayer, Wilbur Ellis, FMC] will help this startup bring digital farming...
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