Farmland isn’t just for farmers anymore

Fractal, a US-based company, is launching a first-of-its-kind farmland equity financing platform to help solve a key gap in farm financing.

Omeat: 'The ways animals make such proteins is much more efficient compared to what we now do using recombinant protein technology.” Image credit: istock/Clara Bastian

Anthony Howcroft is the CEO of SWARM Engineering. SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses next-generation cognitive computing to tackle challenges in the agri-food supply chain to save costs, reduce waste, and deliver environmental benefits.

In the coming months the working group Proof will release a blueprint of a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) identified by a working group of regenerative agriculture experts and practitioners.

Trace Genomics helps CHS Inc. deliver agronomic insights to growers through their Advanced Soil Analytics platform

Armed with $40 million in funding, Los Angeles-based startup Omeat has emerged from stealth with a “simple and elegant solution” to scaling cultivated meat production involving the humane extraction of growth factors and other components from “healthy, living cows.”

Local Line acquires Forager to accelerate sales between farms and grocery stores – becoming the sourcing platform for local food.

Eion is an enhanced rock weathering startup that works with farmers and ranchers to safely and permanently pull carbon out of the air. They use rock called olivine, which is the most abundant on Earth, and by 2026, they will be on track to permanently remove 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.

Kevin O’Leary, one of America’s most well-known businessmen, is looking to make a big-time impact in North Dakota through Wonder Fund North Dakota, a North Dakota Development Fund direct investment program that will use federal funds allocated through a State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) grant.

Cole Jones is the CEO and Founder of Local Line. Local Line helps farmers, food hubs, and farmers' markets access new customers and digitize their businesses. Their e-commerce, CRM, inventory and logistics modules enable food producers of all kinds to control their own brand and grow their business on their terms.

As the world becomes rife with interconnecting environmental and social challenges, the World Economic Forum introduced the new term “polycrisis” in their annual Global Risk Report for 2023.

SWARM Engineering is proud to announce AVA, the first AgriFood Virtual Advisor, an AI-powered digital assistant based on OpenAI, Microsoft Azure and SWARM technology, designed to help businesses in agri-food solve operational challenges and save millions of dollars.

Mad Capital is pushing the envelope about how we think about regenerative agriculture finance by blending new debt and traditional debt models, all within a larger MAD! ecosystem that supports other transitioning farmer needs.

Clean Crop Technologies is an agriculture technology company at the leading edge of the Power to Ag movement, replacing fossil fuel-derived chemicals with air and electricity to boost yields, improve food safety, and reduce food waste.

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is proud to announce an investment of $68.2 million toward 17 innovative Canadian companies.

Over the past decade, we’ve seen the first good-faith and large-scale efforts by a number of global superpowers to address this issue.

A check-in conversation with Brandon Welch and Phil Taylor, founders of Mad Capital and Mad Agriculture, to talk about Perennial Fund 1 and 2, the lessons learned and building the vehicles to finance transition and funnel billions into the space.

Watch Now - If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partnerships, says microbiologist Colin Averill.

I want to capture here, in a brief and intuitive way, why we, “the scientific community,” know CO₂ removal by enhanced rock weathering is a real thing. Putting on my Peter Falk hat, à la Princess Bride, this story is better than you think: stay with me.