Indian agriculture tech startup AgroStar announced today that it has raised a $27 million Series C for its platform, which helps farmers increase crop production, manage orders and buy supplies online. The round was led by Bertelsmann India Investments, with participation from returning investors Accel, Chiratae Ventures and Aavishkaar Bharat Fund. AgroStar bills its app […]
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VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood”
Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the sector or just broader heavy investing in the VC space is much less clear. According to a recent report published by AgFunder – a VC and investing marketplace focused […]
View More VCs have growing appetite for “AgriFood”A Chinese company is GPS-tracking your chicken to ensure they’re healthy and organic
Your future chicken dinner is about to get its very own Fitbit-like device.
Chinese online insurance company ZhongAn Online has developed a new GPS tracker for poultry called GoGo Chicken, according to the Wall Street Journal. The device fits around the animal’s leg while sensors monitor information like the chicken’s environment, what it eats, and how much exercise it gets.
ZhongAn refers to the product as “blockchain farming” because it utilizes the real-time public record technology popularized by cryptocurrency to store its data on the chickens. Read more…
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View More A Chinese company is GPS-tracking your chicken to ensure they’re healthy and organicTeaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvesting
There’s hardly enough room to turn around in Livin Farms’ office. Pretty standard, really, in Central, Hong Kong, where space is at a perpetual premium. It’s a small operation for the HAX-backed startup — there’s space for a few desks and not much more. The startup’s last product, the Hive, stands next to the door. […]
View More Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvestingThis robotic cowboy is making cattle herding much safer
Robotic cattle drivers do exist and they are being deployed across Cargill’s plants in the U.S. and Canada. The company hopes that the robotic cowboys will improve safety in its facilities because there will be no need for staff to be in close proximi…
View More This robotic cowboy is making cattle herding much saferThis farm, run entirely by robots, uses 90% less water than traditional farms
Iron Ox has just opened its first fully automated farm in San Carlos, California. The company claims that its hydroponic system can produce 30 times the yield per acre of land comparing to traditional farms, while using 90 percent less water. Read mo…
View More This farm, run entirely by robots, uses 90% less water than traditional farmsThe online seed-swapping communities bringing the internet back to nature
Kelly Lay has been gardening since she was three-years-old.
Now a nursery specialist at a Lowes in central Illinois, Lay has turned her natural gift for gardening into a profession. And in her spare time Lay moderates r/seedswap, a small Reddit…
Enveritas’ technology lets small growers tap into the market for sustainable coffee
Demand for sustainable coffee is growing, a boon for socially conscious coffee lovers — but many small growers are missing out because they lack the ability to verify that their coffee beans are grown using fair labor and eco-friendly practices. In fact, verification is often accessible only to large coffee estates or cooperatives. Enveritas wants […]
View More Enveritas’ technology lets small growers tap into the market for sustainable coffeeFarmers are now using literal lasers to scare birds away from their crops
Scarecrows might make for a nice aesthetic, but the latest trend in keeping pests away from crops sounds like something straight out of Star Wars.
Lasers are now the newest trend helping blueberry and raspberry growers in the Pacific Northwest …
This monster mower can cut more grass than you can imagine
The Brielmaier motor mower isn’t your average lawn mower. It can mow up to 20 feet of grass and can even mow over slopes. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Farm, Monster, Farming, and Grass
View More This monster mower can cut more grass than you can imagine‘HiveLend’ Connects Bees to Farmers
Two beekeepers are developing an app that allows farmers to link up with bee keepers, so that bees can do their work of pollinating crops locally. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Indiegogo, Farming, Bees, and Bee Keeping
View More ‘HiveLend’ Connects Bees to FarmersSmartsheet co-founder’s next project is a robotic rock picker-upper
A co-founder of Smartsheet, the enterprise collaboration startup that just filed for an IPO, is taking a hard right turn into the world of agriculture robotics. Brent Frei has been working on an automated system for clearing rocks from land. It’s a bit unexpected, but far from a bad idea.
View More Smartsheet co-founder’s next project is a robotic rock picker-upper