Carbon Solution Craze Continues

Carbon Solution Craze Continues

At least eight companies have launched a carbon credit program in just the past two years. And the carbon solution craze continues. Most recently? EarthOptics, a U.S. soil mapping startup aiming to reduce farmers’ carbon release, just raised $10.3M in a Series A...
AgBiome’s Mic(robial) Drop

AgBiome’s Mic(robial) Drop

AgBiome, a crop protection company in North Carolina, has raised $116M in its latest funding round, co-led by Blue Horizon Ventures and Novalis LifeSciences. Microbe manager: Investors are backing the company that focuses on naturally-derived fungicides. With...
Methane Burps Busted

Methane Burps Busted

Royal DSM, the Dutch nutrition giant, just got the green light to sell their methane-busting feed supplement, Bovaer, in Brazil and Chile. Since the two countries are the first to approve it, they must think the product is remarkcowble. Or is everyone else being...
From Amazon to The Amazon, With Love

From Amazon to The Amazon, With Love

Amazon is investing in the Amazon Rainforest. Sounds about right. The international conglomerate worth more than $300B is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to create a more sustainable income for farmers in Brazil while finding solutions to climate change....
Fieldin is Groundbreakin’

Fieldin is Groundbreakin’

Thanks to ag digital startup Fieldin, farmers could gain a sixth sense. Fieldin, founded in 2013, has raised $55M to help specialty crop operations improve efficiencies by giving them access to info they couldn’t have seen with the naked eye. The U.S. and Israel-based...