agriculture

  • Grit Road Partners: Adding Value To Nebraska’s AgTech Landscape

    Grit Road Partners: Adding Value To Nebraska’s AgTech Landscape

    Ben Williamson and Mike Jung launched Grit Road Partners to address a market gap in the venture capital landscape and fund AgTech founders in Nebraska and the Midwest.

  • Five Things: AgTech Connect

    Five Things: AgTech Connect

    These are a few of the major takeaways from the 2023 AgTech Connect conference. TL;DR agtech is full of opportunity and Nebraska investors are paying attention.

  • Omaha-based GrainBridge helps farmers maximize profits

    Omaha-based GrainBridge helps farmers maximize profits

    Farming has advanced substantially over the last 50 years, with faster and more efficient equipment, advances in fertilizer and pest management, GPS technology, and precision planting – to name only a few. These production innovations have helped farmers operate more efficiently, increase yields, and ultimately be more profitable. GrainBridge has added to this list of…

  • Embrace the rural…

    Embrace the rural…

    Silicon Prairie News writes most of its stories about companies from cities or small towns, rarely do we write articles about rural areas. Being in the Midwest, we strongly believe in rural America. As such, we watch stories in rural America closely. However, writing stories regularly about the rural parts of our states can be…