15 Minutes With… Jeff Reinert and Dave Roeser, Co-Founders of MNPHARM
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Trailhead Capital of Boulder, Colorado, has been on a mission to expand its agribusiness and land portfolio over the last year. In August 2018, the privately-held alternative investment company had a part in a $6.5 million funding round for Telesense, a grain monitoring and IoT startup based in Sunn
Read moreSpotlight on FFA: Skill building for the next generation
This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in agriculture technology and surrounding themes in the GAI Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 2, which will be distributed in conjunction with the 5th annual AgTech Nexus USA event, held in Chicago on July 22-23, 2019. Join us in Chicago to hear valuable
Read moreCommentary: Keeping Your Eyes on the Road of Agtech Innovation
This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in agriculture technology and surrounding themes in the GAI Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 2, which will be distributed in conjunction with the 5th annual AgTech Nexus USA event, held in Chicago on July 22-23, 2019. Join us in Chicago to hear valuable
Read moreAgTech: Investment Trends to Watch in a Blooming Industry
This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in agriculture technology and surrounding themes in the GAI Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 2, which will be distributed in conjunction with the 5th annual AgTech Nexus USA event, held in Chicago on July 22-23, 2019. Join us in Chicago to hear valuable
Read moreSaving the Bees, Saving Ourselves
This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in agriculture technology and surrounding themes in the GAI Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 2, which will be distributed in conjunction with the 5th annual AgTech Nexus USA event, held in Chicago on July 22-23, 2019. Join us in Chicago to hear valuable
Read moreContributed Content: Part III – Lessons in Consumption: Fresh Water Scarcity and Agriculture’s Reliance on Irrigation
This is the third article in an eight-part series published by GAI News that examines eight existing trends set to alter the structure of our global food system. Join us each month for a new installment, and be sure to read the first two articles here: Part I, Part II. -By Jeremy Stroud, Bonnefield Agricultural Investment Analyst, and Mich
Read moreContributed Content: 10,000 Years of Seed History Threatened by Climate Change
By Gerelyn Terzo, WIA Media NOTE: This story first appeared in the June 2019 issue, Volume 5, Issue 3, of the Women in Agribusiness Quarterly Journal, a sister publication to GAI News. Seed banks harken back to the beginning of agriculture. Farmers have been preserving seeds from the threat of extreme weather and disease to the food s
Read moreExecutive Profile: Craig Ratajczyk, CEO of Illinois Soybean Association
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI News, and Craig Ratajczyk, CEO of ISA This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in agriculture technology and surrounding themes in the GAI Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 2, which will be distributed in conjunction with the 5th annual AgTech Nexus USA event,
Read more15 Minutes With… Kirk Haney, CEO of Radicle Growth
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI media San Diego-based acceleration fund Radicle Growth made its maiden investment just two years ago in Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based agtech platform designed to mitigate food waste at the farm level. Since that time, the company has committed funding to 15 investments in nine companies in the food
Read moreIndustry Insight: Growing Innovation in Biologicals
By Pam Marrone, Founder and CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations Wherever I travel around the globe, whether it is in China, Guatemala, Brazil, Europe, or the U.S., I have witnessed consumers, especially young people, expressing their desire for more information and transparency about how crops are grown and how their food is produced. Food compa
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