Ida’s Impact on Ag

Ida’s Impact on Ag

Ida has arrived and she’s not a pleasant houseguest. The storm roared onto U.S. soil Sunday with 150-mph winds, leaving over 1M+ homes and businesses without power. Despite its downgraded status to a tropical storm, Ida continued to wreak havoc on Gulf Coast levees,...
Tractor Sales Tracking Up

Tractor Sales Tracking Up

Farm equipment sales are still in overdrive, a welcome sign for equipment manufacturers. Commercial tractor sales in the 100+ horsepower category are up 38.2% year-to-date since July 2020 and combine sales are also up 19.2%. Soundbite: “You look at commodity prices...
Pinduoduo Drives Digital Ag

Pinduoduo Drives Digital Ag

China’s largest ag platform, Pinduoduo, just raked in its first-ever profit. While they’re ringing the cash register, the company is donating the “cha-ching” for ag development. Pinduoduo has pledged to donate the $2 billion yuan ($309M) Q2 operating profit and all...
NASS Gets Galactic

NASS Gets Galactic

Planet Federal, a company that provides data and insights about Earth, will be helping USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) rocket to new heights with a deal for improved crop data collection and analysis. A picture of Earth is worth a thousand...
AgTech’s Summer of Lov…err, Acquisition

AgTech’s Summer of Lov…err, Acquisition

Summer is not the time to start a diet. And Semios agrees. The Vancouver-based precision ag company has spent the summer bellied up to the table in an AgTech consumption spree that would make Joey Chestnut’s head spin. “We are in building mode,” says Semios CEO Dr....