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AgriSync seeks to end agricultural downtime
When a piece of tech breaks in the city, you can find help within minutes. When it breaks on a farm, you may be in for a long wait. Farming involves way more technology than most people realize, and it can be an unfortunate situation for farmers when that tech fails. Rural locations mean the…
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Rex Animal Health wants to be the primary platform for animal health data [VIDEO]
Amado Guloy, CEO of Rex Animal Health, is on a mission to bring the power of analytics to animal welfare. “We’re really making animal health and agriculture more data-driven,” said Guloy. The company is building an industry platform that can be used for a variety of purposes. Academic researchers, pharmaceutical companies, commodity traders, as well as…
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Integrated Animal Health helps bring game-changing animal health products to market
Integrated Animal Health connects emerging technologies with the livestock industry’s established companies and distributors. With a focus on working with developers of new technologies, Integrated Animal Health strives to produce alternatives to antibiotics, hormone therapies, pesticides, and other animal healthcare products. With the increasing government regulation of what goes into food and food products, in addition to growing consumer demand for…
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FarmCentric offers farmers a mobile communication platform
FarmCentric is a suite of agricultural services that help agricultural companies communicate. A product of iNet Solutions Group, FarmCentric is a turnkey website-type of solution that has built in commodity data and quotes that many grain and livestock companies utilize daily to keep up with agricultural markets. The FarmCentric platform is not only a complete…
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This simple device from KinoSol could feed millions
Based in Ames, Iowa, the KinoSol team is prototyping a revolution in food production that could save tons of wasted food each year. The co-founders of KinoSol are wrapping up field tests on the latest prototype of their lightweight, solar-powered dehydrator designed to increase the shelf life of produce and reducing post-harvest losses worldwide. Powered by the…
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Farmobile raises $5.5 million in Series A
Kansas City-based ag startup Farmobile has announced a raise of $5.5 million in their Series A round. The round was led by Anterra Capital, a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam specializing in food and agriculture innovation. Anterra and Farmobile hope this investment will help make Farmobile the industry standard for farm data. Farmobile was…
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MachineryLink Sharing brings the sharing economy to the farm
The sharing economy is disrupting many industries. Agriculture is no exception. Today Kansas City-based FarmLink officially launched MachineryLink Sharing, the agriculture industry’s first Internet-based equipment sharing program. The platform has been in a beta-test, soft launch of sorts as of the last few months, according to Jeff Dema, president of grower services at FarmLink, receiving critical feedback…
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Swineguard protects piglets from being crushed to death
Matt Rooda was working as an assistant farm manager at Schneider Pork Farms in Waterloo, Iowa, when he realized that in order to increase pork production, he needed to stop piglet deaths. “I walked in one day, and there was a mom that laid on nine of her babies,” Rooda said. “I was super frustrated,…
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FarmBright’s Steve Tippery on the future of AgTech
Steve Tippery started FarmBright (formerly IntelliFarm) in 2012. FarmBright uses data to make more intelligent agricultural machines. Tippery has nearly 20 years of experience in product development for agriculture machinery. His company is currently in the NMotion startup accelerator in Lincoln, Nebraska. SPN spoke with Tippery at EntreFEST in Iowa City, Iowa. SPN: What are some…
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Pig breeder Carl Blake’s mission to acquaint Iowa technologists, farmers
If there’s anyone who truly personifies entrepreneurship in Iowa, it’s Carl Blake. A software engineer with no formal training turned innovative hog farmer, Blake is the cross-section of what Iowa’s economy has been traditionally known for and what it’s working to become …