Rather than applying ag lime to farmland to reduce soil acidity, Eion supplies farmers with a 1:1 replacement: crushed olivine.

Watch Now - CNBC’s Diana Olick reports on a new effort to limit carbon emissions.

EarthSense, Inc. announced today that it has received a grant from Shell GameChanger. The grant will help validate the application of EarthSense’s autonomous field robotics technologies for oil seed cover crops as feedstocks for biofuel production.

Fractal, a US-based company helping to solve a key gap in farmer financing, has announced an expansion of their farmland co-investment product. Fractal has raised more than $15MM of capital and has deployed $8MM to leading farmers across the Midwest.

A check-in interview with Mark Lewis, managing partner at Trailhead Capital, about the inevitability of the “regenerative revolution” and the potential for significant financial and non-financial returns in this space. What does putting almost half of your $50 million VC fund to work in businesses active in the regen space in North America taught Mark about the space, what has changed since 2021, and which big opportunities haven’t we collectively invested in? What is missing and what is needed?

Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovation in Agricultural & Food Technologies Around the Globe

As the Data Analytics Solution of 2024, Provision joins the ranks of several unicorns in the food supply chain.

The blueprint is designed to help regenerative agriculture investors and businesses select industry-specific metric sets and promote harmonization for impact measurement. It’s intended to be broadly applicable to investors and businesses who invest in or operate directly managed land, as well as those who invest in or provide upstream and downstream services in agricultural supply chains.

New York-based Leaf is looking to build the Plaid of farm data, co-founder and CEO Bailey Stockdale told TechCrunch. The company takes a farm’s unstructured data, standardizes it, and loads it into an application programming interface (API). This allows Leaf customers, who range from crop insurance providers to agtech startups, to better utilize and build off the data. Customers pay for the service based on how many acres their data is harvested from.

Earthshot’s carbon development platform streamlines compliance and derisks project finance with automated feasibility and underwriting tools

Did you know that regenerative technologies can restore the soil ecosystem, improve crop yield, produce higher quality food, reduce farming costs and reduce food waste?

The grant will allow the company to scale deployment of its Clean Current technology, a first-of-its-kind, fossil fuel-free defense against crop disease

In this episode of the BizMafia podcast, we sit down with Pete Oberle, the co-founder and managing director of Trailhead Capital. Trailhead Capital is a mission-driven early stage venture capital firm dedicated to generating outstanding financial, societal, and ecological returns by supporting entrepreneurs who are building the regenerative future of food and agriculture.

Holyoke, MA based agriculture technology start-up investor and Managing Partner of Trailhead Capital joins advisory board.

Massachusetts-based Clean Crop Technologies has launched a commercial cold plasma seed treatment facility, signed $3.4 million in purchase orders, and has a sales and pilot pipeline worth $47 million in annual recurring revenue from companies that represent 39% of the global vegetable seed market, claims the startup.

Roughly a fifth of the companies on Newsweek's latest ranking of the Most Trustworthy Companies in America also appear on Newsweek's list of America's Most Responsible Companies, a ranking that includes an assessment of a company's environmental, social and governance, or ESG, disclosure.

HerdDogg Inc., the leader in data-driven livestock management, announced today the closure of its Series A-4 Preferred Equity financing, securing a significant investment to accelerate commercialization and fuel innovative hardware and data solutions for the beef and dairy industries.

CamoAg, a leading provider of advanced agricultural intelligence and workflow management solutions, and American AgCredit, a member of the Farm Credit System, which offers financial services to agricultural and rural communities across multiple states, are working together in efforts to transform the agricultural data landscape.

peciality finance shop Mad Capital has launched its Perennial Fund II that provides US farmers with loans to help them transition to regenerative and/or organic agriculture.

The episode delves into Food Maven’s evolution since their last interview, highlighting key milestones and shifts in strategy.