| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2024 | Heavy Equipment Engineering: The Backbone of Modern Industry | Heavy equipment engineering is the unsung hero of modern infrastructure. It’s the muscle behind skyscrapers, highways, and agricultural advancements. This field is a blend of creativity and technical prowess, where engineers design, develop... |
| 20.08.2024 | Dispatch from North Dakota: How innovators, entrepreneurs and bonanza farmers built Fargo’s agtech legacy | In the second half of the nineteenth century, North Dakota and other parts of the US and Canada saw the rise of commercial wheat farming operations producing on a scale previously unheard of. Called “bonanza farms,” these enterprises worked... |
| 24.06.2024 | What agtech can learn from the Indy 500: a conversation about data and uncertainty with Purdue’s Chad Fiechter | What’s easier: landing on the moon or raising crops?
So asked Chad Fiechter, assistant professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, last week during Bushel‘s Buddy Seat conference in Fargo, North Dakota. Chad
The answer to the ... |
| 14.03.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: HeavyFinance lands $55m, Bezos Fund commits $60m to alt protein | One of the biggest funding rounds this week went to Lithuanian agrifinance platform HeavyFinance, while Bezos Earth Fund announced a $60 million commitment to improve alt protein. Meanwhile, Impossible Foods unveiled a brand refresh this we... |
| 29.02.2024 | Agtech company Bushel finds ‘aggressive adoption of technology by younger farmers’ in latest report | Despite concerns around high costs, there is “aggressive adoption” of farm technologies by the younger farming generations, says the 2024 edition of Bushel’s State of the Farm report.
Bushel‘s annual report surveys specialty and row-crop fa... |
| 22.12.2023 | ‘It’s not sexy to talk about a grain elevator but it’s required’: Bushel’s Jake Joraanstad on 10 years of agtech evolution | “How do we build technology that farmers will use?”
Jake Joraanstad, co-founder and CEO of ag software provider Bushel, started asking that question long before the advent of the crowded farm startup scene we know today.
Back then, “agtech”... |
| 19.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Japan’s DAIZ lands $47m, Zordi emerges from stealth in US, FBN & ADM team up | Agtech’s big news this week was the emergence of US-based Zordi, which came out of stealth with its autonomous greenhouse tech. Over in foodtech, funding went to DAIZ for Japan’s ‘largest’ plant-based meat factory and a couple new developme... |
| 24.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bayer & Shell tackle rice farming emissions, Mosaic launches biologicals business | Between August holidays and an uncertain economy, funding rounds were few and far between this week. Nonetheless, CPG product-testing startup Highlight snagged funds from major agrifood corporates and grain-trading platform Bushel announced... |
| 22.08.2023 | Bushel Raises $26M in Funding | Bushel, a Fargo, ND-based provider of a digital platform connecting farmers and agribusinesses, raised $26M in funding.
The round was led by The Banc Funds Company with further support from new and existing investors including 50 South Capi... |
| 22.08.2023 | Bushel® Secures $26 Million to Accelerate Digitization in Agriculture | The Banc Funds Company led the investment round with additional funding from new and existing investors.
This investment supports Bushel’s continuing efforts to digitize paper processes and payments, fuel expansion opportunities to serve ag... |
| 22.08.2023 | Grain-trading platform Bushel raises $26m to build up ‘the Holy Grail’ of agrifintech software | Digital grain-trading platform Bushel has raised $26 million in a fresh round of funding.
A new investor, private equity firm The Banc Funds Company, led the round.
Other investors to the round include 50 South Capital, The Andersons, Inc.,... |
| 17.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: BP invests in green hydrogen, Toyota funds carbon measurement, Bushel gleans $26m | This week, BP and Toyota got involved with climate tech for green hydrogen and measuring soil carbon, respectively. Bushel, a platform for grain trade management, raised additional Series C funding. Elsewhere, food robots and restaurant tec... |
| 31.07.2023 | Bushel Transforms Farm Management Software with the Launch of Automated Entry of Grain Contracts | Bushel, an independently-owned software technology company focused on developing digital tools for the agricultural supply chain, announced an innovative new feature for Bushel Farm: automated grain contract entry.
AiThority Interview Insig... |
| 27.07.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Builders Vision to invest $1.1bn in climate, Walmart & other corporates expand regen ag | Agrifoodtech funding this week was rather abysmal in terms of the number of deals announced. But there were plenty of new funds, including a $1.1 billion climate-focused one from VC Builders Vision. Meanwhile, Israeli startups and investors... |
| 14.03.2023 | Farm tech market map: charting the next wave of agtech value for farmers | Editor’s note: Seana Day is a partner at Culterra Capital and based in the US. She has 20-plus years of investment, M&A, and strategy experience in agrifoodtech. Her analyses on the sector are regularly used by participants in the space... |
| 08.03.2023 | What is “the next big thing” for agtech? | Editor’s note: Seana Day is a partner at Culterra Capital. Based in the US, she has 20-plus years of investment, M&A, and strategy experience in agrifoodtech. Her analyses on the sector are regularly used by participants in the space to... |
| 02.03.2023 | Bushel Introduces Bushel FarmTM, the Next Generation of Farm Management Software | Bushel Farm, the next generation of Bushel’s FarmLogs solution, advances Bushel’s mission to digitize, permission and accelerate the flow of information throughout the agriculture supply chain
Bushel Farm enables farmers to collaborate with... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 07.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake | This week, Germany’s Green Generation Fund landed more capital to invest in alt-protein startups, while Israeli foodtech firm Phytolon scored funding for its natural food coloring tech.
In the food delivery realm, Amazon bought a stake in G... |
| 04.07.2022 | Bushel’s new payments network is a major step towards digitizing US agriculture | In a major step on the road to digitizing the ag supply chain, grain trading platform Bushel has launched a new software platform that facilitates digital payments between farmers and agribusiness partners.
Payments in US agriculture are wh... |
| 29.06.2022 | Bushel® Launches Digital Payment Network for US Agriculture | New products are added to the Bushel platform to address the issues in the industry of payment by paper check.
Bushel’s network of more than 40% of grain origination volume in the United States will be able to quickly provide digital paymen... |
| 30.05.2022 | Тренды в агротехе 2022 | Рынок агротехнологий стремительно развивается год от года. За первые три квартала 2021 года, по данным исследования Future Today Institute, инвестиции в размере более $8,3 млрд получили 441 агротех-стартапов по всему миру.
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| 07.03.2022 | CIBO & Bushel partner to make carbon farming ‘economically viable’ for US growers | Carbon farming firm CIBO Technologies recently announced its first CIBO Carbon Bridge partnership with grain trading platform Bushel.
The CIBO Carbon Bridge program launched earlier this year and mitigates risks for US growers switching to ... |
| 01.02.2022 | How significant is the Bayer-Microsoft deal for agtech? The response | Editor’s Note: This post is co-authored by AFN’s editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor alongside Mark Johnson, who recently led grain trading platform GrainBridge to acquisition and was cofounder of Descartes Labs.
A few months ago, Bayer and Micros... |
| 16.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: EzCater nets $100m, McCain bets $55m & Good Meat gets green light | This week, vertical ag player Infarm and corporate catering startup ezCater each closed funding rounds that kicked their valuations to over $1 billion. In the alt-protein world, Eat Just secured further regulatory clearances in Singapore fo... |
| 16.12.2021 | Agrofy adds $30m to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds. |
| 16.12.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrofy adds $30m in Yara-led Series C round to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds.
Yara Growth Ventures, the VC arm of Norwegian agrochemicals giant Yara International... |
| 09.12.2021 | Bayer, Bushel & AWS launch carbon measurement tool for US farmers | Bayer and grain-marketing startup Bushel have teamed up with Amazon‘s Web Services (AWS) to launch Project Carbonview – a data-based carbon measurement tool aimed at helping farmers to better assess and report the carbon footprint of their ... |
| 14.10.2021 | Data Snapshot: Asia, LatAm dominate H1 investment into Agribusiness Marketplaces | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
The world’s biggest Agribusiness Marketplaces funding deal during the first half of this year was in In... |
| 13.10.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Rebel Foods raises $175m, Culture Biosciences banks $80m (UPDATED) | Editor’s note: Culture Biosciences’ $80 million fundraise was announced at 3 pm ET on Thursday, October 14. AFN has added the news as an update to this roundup.
There was news of two major funding rounds in India this week, with cloud kitch... |
| 12.10.2021 | Bushel acquires Cargill & ADM’s GrainBridge | US grain trading platform Bushel has acquired GrainBridge, its counterpart that’s a joint venture of agribusiness giants Cargill and ADM. GrainBridge will eventually become part of Bushel’s software offering, adding a data science component... |
| 12.10.2021 | Bushel® Acquires GrainBridge® | Bushel has acquired GrainBridge, a joint venture owned by ADM and Cargill Incorporated.
ADM joins Cargill on Bushel’s platform, working with their respective customers to transition from GrainBridge to the Bushel platform over time.
The acq... |
| 23.08.2021 | Brazil’s Solinftec launches digital grain trading tools in US, Canada | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Solinftec.
“The grain business is so analog today. A lot of work is still done by spreadsheet, phone call, and whiteboarding,” Bret Sitzmann, head of ecosystems and grain at Soli... |
| 16.06.2021 | Bushel acquires FarmLogs to integrate farm-level and supply chain data | US grain-trading platform Bushel has acquired FarmLogs, a farm management app aimed at row crop operations. Through the takeover, it will be able to connect on-farm management data across tens of thousands of growers responsible for 40% of ... |
| 20.04.2021 | BREAKING: Bushel bags $47m Series C funding as it scales up & eyes new fintech offering | US grain trading platform Bushel has raised $47 million in a Series C round led by Continental Grain Company and Lewis & Clark AgriFood, with additional investment from Germin8 Ventures as well as agribusiness firms Cargill, Scoular, an... |
| 20.04.2021 | Bushel® Closes $47 Million Investment Round Led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood and Continental Grain Company | Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.
Investment captures significant market share of grain supply chain and accelerates digital infrastructure for sustainability initiatives, fintech offerings and expa... |
| 20.04.2021 | Bushel® Closes $47 Million Investment Round Led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood and Continental Grain Company | Investment captures significant market share of grain supply chain and accelerates digital infrastructure for sustainability initiatives, fintech offerings and expanded product suites
FARGO, N.D.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 20, 2021–
Bushel, an i... |
| 20.04.2021 | Bushel bags $47m Series C funding as it scales up & eyes new fintech offering | US grain trading platform Bushel has raised $47 million in a Series C round led by Continental Grain Company and Lewis & Clark AgriFood, with additional investment from Germin8 Ventures as well as agribusiness firms Cargill, Scoular, an... |
| 16.12.2020 | Delivering the goods: Food supply chain tech market map & predictions for 2021 | Editor’s note: Seana Day and Brita Rosenheim are partners at Culterra Capital and venture partners at Better Food Ventures, each with 20-plus years of investment, M&A, and strategy experience in agrifoodtech. Their analyses on the agrif... |
| 02.11.2020 | What 2020 has taught the agrifood sector: resilience | If there is anything the world has learned from the pandemic about the future of food it’s that food chains need to be more resilient. Ireland is a case study in how to achieve it.
The small European island country was reeling after the glo... |
| 23.06.2020 | Old corporates, new tricks: Scoular launches app to take the paper out of the grain shipping industry | Agriculture is often characterized as a heavily consolidated industry where a few major players dominate nearly every aspect of the supply chain. Every once in a while, however, a few members of the old guard decide to take a page out of th... |
| 17.03.2020 | Asia drives $786m global investment in Agribusiness Marketplaces last year | Alternative protein gets plenty of limelight in the agri-foodtech arena nowadays. But there are startups from outside the “fake meat” craze that are having just as big an impact on the global ecosystem.
Agribusiness marketplaces are one suc... |
| 23.12.2019 | Analyzing 2019’s wild weather year: could technology have helped? | Weather. It’s either a farmer’s best friend or greatest foe depending on how Mother Nature’s meteorological temperament unfolds from season-to-season or even month-to-month. Sometimes we sound a bit like Goldilocks when asked to opine on ho... |
| 20.12.2019 | Last Week In Venture: Buying Grains, Zapping Brains, And Hugging Face | 7 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 19.12.2019 | Bushel Closes $19.5M Series B Funding Round | Bushel, a Fargo, ND-based provider of tech solutions for growers, grain buyers, protein producers and food companies, closed an $19.5m Series B funding round.
The round, which brought total capital raised to date to over $28m, was led by Co... |
| 17.12.2019 | Bushel wants to enhance, not disrupt, grain trading with $19.5m Series B | Countless agri-foodtech startups are hoping to disrupt the food system with new digital-focused innovations but for grain trading platform creator Bushel, making an existing system better through digital tools is a more promising venture.
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