Featured Vendors (January-March) - 2022

Agriculture is no more a yesteryear labour-intensive job. Concepts like indoor farming, vertical farming, and hydroponics have made us realize that technology has furthered the boundaries of the agriculture industry to an unprecedented extent. Robotics is getting better and better, and their viability is being explored across the agricultural value chain, from planting to harvesting to meat processing and grocery logistics. Companies are now making robots capable of identifying unwanted plants and spraying them with high-precision herbicide, reducing input costs and increasing efficiency. At the same time, a myriad of remote sensing techniques, from in-field sensors to drones to satellite imagery, are allowing farmers to view their crops from multiple perspectives. With constant advances in computing and sensor technology, farmers now easily get access to high-cadence, broad area coverage with field-level detail. All these help farmers with up-to-date information in real-time to make changes to their crops.

Besides, just like machine learning and advanced analytics are being used to mine data for trends in every sector, agriculture is no exception. These are being applied before seed planting with plant breeders. Machine learning can predict which traits and genes will be best for crop production, giving farmers the best breed for their location and climate. At the field level, machine learning techniques use satellite data to distinguish between crops like corn and soy, providing valuable information for crop insurance, logistics, and commodity markets. This important intersection of robotics and data from increasingly connected farms will only accelerate this trend even further.

As agriculture is undergoing massive transformation because of digitization, numerous innovative ag-tech solution providers are driving the industry’s unprecedented growth. On that note, we hope this edition will enable you to find the right ag-tech solution provider that will help you stay at the forefront of innovation in the agriculture industry—all while delivering products with a far superior quality.

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Featured Vendors (January-March)

Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies

By harnessing mother nature’s knowhow—symbiosis—Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies is dedicated to improving agricultural sustainability and farmers' profitability with its novel technologies that mitigate the impact of climate variability. The company focuses on the research and production of symbiotic plant microbes as agricultural crop treatments for farmers. Backed by an inventive, hard-working group of scientists, business minds, growers, and more, Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies is committed to creating an impact in agriculture with innovation. The company has commercialized a diverse range of biological products, including BioEnsure® (fungal inoculant) and BioTango™ (bacterial inoculant powder), to confer positive symbiotic benefits to a diverse line of crops

Starlight LLC

Starlight LLC is a consulting and technology organization that references top science to develop a vision of the future that farmers can trust to manage their long-term forecasting and planning. The company partners with startups, investors, and entrepreneurs to provide actionable next steps. Clients can leverage this advantage and create insightful operator conditions, and ultimately set up farmers to receive personalized behavioral insights of their crop and cattle. Starlight understands that connectivity services of the Internet are perhaps the most valuable resource, for at least the next several years, in the supply chain of data solutions. So, the company identifies providers of Internet backbone technology and then consults with them to follow their lead on where innovation is happening in satellite, IoT, mobile, documents, APIs, and AI

Tradewinds Software

TradeWinds Software offers a user-intuitive, powerful platform to provide end-to-end features essential for integrating people, processes, and technologies across clients’ grain businesses. At a time when the agriculture industry demands companies to stay most competitive, TradeWinds Software (TradeWinds) provides them with the edge they need. Since its inception in 1988, TradeWinds has been committed to optimizing customers’ grain and seed operations. In doing so, TradeWinds empowers agricultural businesses with multi-category software solutions. The company offers a user-intuitive, powerful platform to provide end-to-end features essential for integrating people, processes, and technologies across clients’ businesses

Trimble

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) provides solutions that solve complex technology challenges across the entire agricultural supply chain