The premier global agtech think- and do-tank. Thought leadership and innovation.
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28 Dec 2024
Starbucks baristas strike, Guinness is running dry in UK pubs, and Congress clears resolution delivering aid to farmers. NY Gov signs bills resuming marijuana farmers markets, growing grapes in the high desert, and US gets big win in the GMO corn dispute with Mexico.
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28 Dec 2024
There is a moment in every entrepreneur’s journey when they have to take a chance. They have to roll the dice, take the proverbial leap. The leap synonymizes many things for an entrepreneur. We will elaborate on those things, with a unique touch, in this week’s Agtech Action.
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28 Dec 2024
This will be my final edition. open.substack.com/pub/agtech…
#agtech #startups #innovation #agtechfriday #agriculture #agtwitter #thankyou #agrifoodtech
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21 Dec 2024
Grubhub to pay fine for harmful practices against diners, DeSantis protects FL farms from development, and CA declares bird flu emergency. Walmart employees now wear body cameras, animals as chemical factories, and Bayer and Trendlines dissolve #agtech fund.
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21 Dec 2024
Knowing our limitations is a powerful personal exercise—this is also true for agtech. How can agtech move forward without understanding its limitations? We’ll give this a try in this week’s newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/agtech…
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14 Dec 2024
Deere lays off more employees, federal judge blocks business ownership reporting requirement, and ultra-processed food from industrial waste. Butterball shuts down Arkansas plant, CA recalls raw milk and cream from Raw Farm, and can dirt clean the climate?
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14 Dec 2024
A less often used tactic in #agtech is a joint venture. Agtech tends to build on its own but I recommend a joint venture. There are reasons why we don’t see it enough in agtech and why we should. We’ll delve into that in this week’s newsletter.
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7 Dec 2024
ADM sees challenges ahead in 2025, USDA announces federal order to test milk for the bird flu, and Oatly loses legal dispute over ‘milk’ trademark. JBS to build meatpacking plant in Nigeria, a Dutch suburb where they grow their own food, and are lab-grown meats a luxury product?
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7 Dec 2024
Entrepreneurs play a delicate game of push and pull. Sometimes they initiate the push, often it is initiated upon them. The best, and most successful, entrepreneurs in #agtech know how to be a force of [insert adjective]. But this is not imposing yourself.
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7 Dec 2024
There is so much more to it and we'll explore how in this week’s newsletter.
open.substack.com/pub/brando…
#agtechfriday #startups #agriculture #forcefor #forceful #innovation #agtwitter #forceof
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30 Nov 2024
Gro Intelligence’s IP acquired by another startup, incoming Secretary of Agriculture is picked, and Paine Schwartz acquires a supplement provider. Debates about impending trade wars heats up, Pepsi adds more chips to address ‘shrinkflation’ criticism, and bats as crop protection.
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30 Nov 2024
Experience is the foundation of a successful entrepreneur. It is the barometer through which all entrepreneurs, and their teams, are judged upon. Agtech needs knowledge, technology and, I argue most glaringly, experience to succeed. open.substack.com/pub/brando…
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30 Nov 2024
We will describe and quantify what experience #agtech needs in this week’s newsletter. #agriculture #startups #innovation #experience #wisdom #experienceaboveall #agtwitter #agtechfriday #experiencefactor
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29 Nov 2024
Congratulations to @TheYieldLab N. America portfolio co. @AscribeBio for their investment from Source Agriculture Corp. to further build out their novel crop protection molecules. #agtech #cropprotection #agriculture #molecules
27 Nov 2024
Source Agriculture Corp. has announced its strategic investment in Ascribe Bioscience. Founded in 2017, Ascribe is dedicated to creating sustainable crop protection technologies based on natural molecules derived from the soil microbiome.
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27 Nov 2024
Congratulations to @ClearAgro for winning one of the $250k prizes from this year's @grow_ny competition!
📣 Introducing the 2024 #GrowNY winners:
🏆 $1 million grand prize winner: Unibaio
$500K winner: @PureNanoTech
$500K winner: UdderWays
$250K winner: Clean Crop
$250K winner: @ClearAgro
$250K winner: For Bitter For Worse
$250K winner: @ZordiFarm
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27 Nov 2024
ClearLeaf is a former finalists of The Yield Lab Institute's Sustainable Agtech Challenge. Great job by Néstor Zúñiga Arias, Agustin Büchert and the team! #agtech #agriculture #startups #biologicals #cropprotection #innovation #agtwitter
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25 Nov 2024
This is a smart and great strategy for #agtech; rather than build, acquire
25 Nov 2024
‘Picking up where Gro left off’: Almanac acquires Gro Intelligence’s IP agtechnavigator.com/Article/…
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