Rabobank Releases Report on Sugar Consumption Trends
Rabobank has released a report chronicling changing global attitudes towards sugar. The report, Sweetness and Lite: How Vulnerable is Global Sugar Consumption to Food & Beverage Trends? is available online. The report finds attitudes towards sugar are changing globally. As the concerns of consumers and governments have gained momentum,
Read morePublic-Private Partnership Looks to Grow Ag Processing Sector in Kentucky
The Department of Agriculture in the U.S. state of Kentucky is engaging with public and private partners to grow its processor, manufacturer, and other agribusinesses sector. Agriculture is a US$46B business in Kentucky, with 154 food manufacturers, 50 nonalcoholic beverage manufacturers, and 34 distilleries all contributing. “Extremely
Read moreMonsanto Growth Ventures, Otter Capital lead $24M Series C for NewLeaf
Agricultural biologicals company NewLeaf Symbiotics announced it has successfully closed a $24 million Series C co-led by Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) and Otter Capital, and also including Lewis & Clark Ventures, Rockport Capital, Pangaea Ventures, and Open Prairie Ventures among others. Since its launch in 2013 through the Bio Resea
Read moreContributed Content: Agriculture as an Asset Class
by Michael DeSa, Founder/CEO, AGD Consulting Agriculture is one of the oldest asset classes in the world, time-tested and proven to weather economic uncertainty. Within agriculture, farmland has historically proven itself as a tangible, stable storage of wealth, appreciating approximately 3.5 percent annually over the last 30 years.
Read moreTakeaways From GAI AgTech Week 2017 – Labor Pains
Often when discussing agricultural production and agtech innovation, the conversation focuses on the challenges associated with factors such as crop yields, inputs, and climate change - all valid and important considerations. These topics of study and development are also largely quantifiable (which is a very good thing) however, labor issues
Read moreTakeaways From GAI AgTech Week 2017 – Adoption
There is a universal imperative for global agricultural production - it must produce more with less. Population growth means the industry must produce more food, however, urbanization and pollution mean that it must achieve this goal with less land. Meanwhile, consumers and environmentalists are pushing for the reduction or elimination of the
Read moreMellinger’s Minutes: Executives in Transition
Non-Traditional Player Alert - Top Talent - I was contacted this morning by a former senior government figure seeking her next role in the agriculture sector. She had a sense that there may be dynamic and novel types of board and management roles to be found among investors, private equity, venture capital, and agtech non-traditional players w
Read moreMellinger’s Minutes: AgTech Trends – Asia
AgTech trends - I've been traveling the last two weeks meeting with agricultural stakeholders. Japanese agtech firms are proliferating to meet the demographic and productivity challenges of farming in Japan, and they wish to offer their solutions across Asia, and the world. I met with firms with robotics technologies for handling delicate f
Read moreBoston AgTech Innovation Spotlight: American Robotics
As a lead up to GAI AgTech Week 2017, the GAI team thought it would be interesting to tell you about some of the local agtech players we've been meeting during our planning of this third annual agtech event, which will take place in Boston in June. American Robotics Reese Mozer Founder & CEO American Robotics is a drone develop
Read moreBoston AgTech Innovation Spotlight: Freight Farms
As a lead up to GAI AgTech Week 2017, the GAI team thought it would be interesting to tell you about some of the local agtech players we've been meeting during our planning of this third annual agtech event, which will take place in Boston in June. Freight Farms Brad McNamara CEO and Co-founder Freight Farms manufactures high-volum
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