A Roadmap to Better Decision Making

Every input on the farm that goes into the process of growing and harvesting crops is considered a sunk cost. That’s why "operational efficiency" is so important to most farmers’ bottom lines. A company called FluroSat is working to help farmers cut costs by up to -30% by using data to optimize everything from irrigation to harvesting, while also being ...
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Farmers that have embraced drones in their agricultural operations tend to use them for crop monitoring purposes but Iowa-based ag startup Rantizo thinks drones can do much more to help lessen the workload for farmers. The company utilizes autonomous sprayer drones for precise input application. Last summer, Rantizo became the first in the U.S. to receive FAA approval for nationwide ...
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New Danish research and innovation have now cracked the code on how you can extract protein from grass in an effective way. The process is called biorefining, which covers a wide array of methods that can refine or improve the value of nature’s most basic resources. The perspectives are far-reaching. The company is called "BioRefine Denmark". Keep in mind, fresh ...
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GROW is a short 2-minute video inspired by scientific light recipes which improve plants’ growth and resilience. The light is somewhat poetic, and inspired by photobiology light science technologies which have shown that certain recipes of blue, red, and ultraviolet light can enhance plant growth and reduce the use of pesticides by up to 50%.GROW is part of the artist-in-residence ...
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Australia is on track to produce its second-largest wheat crop in history with exports that are expected to match. USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service's post in Canberra recently forecast Australia's wheat production at 31 million metric tons (MMT) for the 2020/21 marketing year, more than double last year's drought-afflicted output of just over 15 MMT and 1 million higher than the ...
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One of the key challenges in soil carbon management is finding ways to sequester carbon -- that is, capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide -- in soil so that it can be used by plants and other organisms. The primary way that carbon is stored in the ground is as soil organic matter, effectively limiting the amount of carbon that ...
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USDA's latest outlook for the farm economy in 2021 forecasts higher receipts for crops and livestock but an overall decline in income. Much of the income reduction stems from lower supplemental and ad hoc disaster assistance to farmers and ranchers for the coronavirus pandemic compared with 2020. Meanwhile, receipts for actual sales of crops in livestock are seen rising +5.5% ...
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Listen in as KVT and Benson Hill CEO, Matt Crisp talk unfiltered about the future of agriculture, some of their favorite investments, new books they are reading, and how they are collectively working to bring premium crop opportunities to growers across the U.S. This is a great conversation with the CEO of the most talked-about ag-tech startup in the industry ...
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U.S. hog producers endured some brutal setbacks last year amid the havoc wreaked on supply chains as the Covid-19 pandemic set in. Unfortunately, some producers throughout the Midwest are also dealing with a new and more deadly strain of a common foe, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS). This emerging strain, PRRS 1-4-4, began showing up last fall and so ...
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This week our group at iSelect is hosting a "Soil Carbon" deep-dive. There have been a ton of questions circulating as of late, so I thought this was extremely relevant and timely. You can register below to hear the panel discussing the future of soil carbon and the options available to measure and manage this resource, as well as the ...
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