Author: daniel

Start-up NASA and the Patent Portfolio

What more can you ask for; space age technology, in an easy to search database, with pictures and abstracts, available for patent licensing and commercialization. Then there is ‘Startup NASA’ offering a license with no up-front costs for commercialization. You can hold on to your money. The best way to manage your cash flow as […]

Why precision agriculture is essential in combating climate change

The relationship between farming and climate change is something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, agriculture is among the largest contributors to climate change. It accounts for 24% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions, which makes it the world’s second-largest emitter after the energy sector. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Why precision agriculture […]

Data show precision ag tech boosts land values for users

Precision ag technology began in the early 1990s with widespread use of yield monitors in combines that would generate maps of fields based on the grain flow into the hopper as the machine moved up and down the fields. Early adopters of precision ag technology were often described as being on the “bleeding edge” of […]

START-UP SPOTLIGHT: REALMFIVE

Depending on where Clark McPheeters is working on his southern Nebraska farm, connectivity can be spotty. The lack of reliability is also one of his biggest obstacles in moving critical information to the cloud. “Data used to be trapped on our monitors, and we couldn’t take it anywhere else digitally,” says McPheeters, who grows corn […]

Nutrien Ag Solutions Acquires Wireless Data Transfer Company Agbridge

Nutrien Ag Solutions continues to build out its digital agriculture portfolio with the recent acquisition of Agbridge, a hardware company focused on wireless data-sharing. The acquisition helps serve Nutrien Ag Solutions’ goal of making “hard things easier,” says Sol Goldfarb, head of digital at Nutrien Ag Solutions, who notes this is the first hardware acquisition […]

HOW THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC WILL ACCELERATE DIGITAL AGRICULTURE

Even before COVID-19 surfaced, the move toward digital agriculture was certain. “It’s hard to see how you’re going to be a successful farmer in the future without greater technology adoption on the farm,” says Sam Taylor, analyst—farm inputs for Rabobank. Digital tools such as artificial intelligence that alert farmers to be preemptive about pest treatments […]

F³ Tech Pre-Accelerator Company, ATP,-MD Tapped to Join Exelon Climate Change Investment Initiative (2c2i).

Joseph James and startup ATP-MD seeks to commercialize a recently-patented Combined Remediation Biomass and Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process, for an innovative application on-site, at coal-fired power plants, to reduce their adverse environmental impacts.  ATP-MD participated in F³ Tech’s 2019 Pre-Accelerator program.  Being accepted into the Climate Change Investment Initiative will go a long way in […]

New Video Highlights F³ Tech Portfolio Company Ovipost

MidAtlantic Farm Credit (MAFC) has just released a new video on the 2019 Ag Showcase held at the Rural Maryland Council’s Rural Summit in December.  The video highlights the Crowd Choice, Ovipost, a company that participated in the 2019 F³ Tech Accelerator.  Ovipost’s Trina Chiasson, Founder and CEO, takes a technological approach to the process […]

Robots on the rise

Nine companies are working to automate farm chores like picking rocks or maneuvering a grain cart. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Robots on the rise

You May Be Overlooking One Key Factor In Hydroponics: Water Quality

Since water is the main carrier of nutrients, it’s essential that the water have as few impurities as possible. Poor water quality may cause plants to suffer from stunted growth, nutrient deficiencies, bacterial contamination and more! Water quality is frequently overlooked by new hydroponic farmers. Most people assume their tap water will work perfectly well. […]