Robots Picking Rocks. It’s Genius.

Robots Picking Rocks. It’s Genius.

Those long, dusty days clearing rocks from fields may become a thing of the past. The rundown: TerraClear, creator of an innovative field rock-picking system, recently announced a $25 million Series A funding round. Better than back-breaking: Attach the Rock Picker to...
Fundraisin’ Roundup

Fundraisin’ Roundup

Sustainability is the name of the game for these startups who recently raked in new piles of investment dollars. Here’s a snapshot of where agtech startup bucks are headed for environmentally-friendly microbes, biofertilizers, and biomolecule injections: 1. The...
JBS Gettin’ Digi(tal) With It

JBS Gettin’ Digi(tal) With It

JBS is having its own Inception moment. The global meat player has created a blockchain platform that allows suppliers of JBS to register, well, their own suppliers. In April, beef cattle producers began registering animal sellers on the Transparent Livestock Farming...
A Swing for the Vences

A Swing for the Vences

Thanks to a recent $12 million investment in a San Diego startup, a whole boatload of ranchers will soon be rotating their herds across rangeland without running another strand of wire. “Oh, oh, it’s magic.”: Well, not really, but it is cutting-edge. With the help of...
Nothing Turtle-Like For This Growth…

Nothing Turtle-Like For This Growth…

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...