Category: Media

Bloomfield Robotics Selected to Participate in the F3 Tech Accelerator Program

An AI and Computer Vision based Health and Performance Assessment of Crop Yield EASTON, MARYLAND, USA, October 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — F3 Tech, a leading commercialization program for early and late-stage companies supported by the nonprofit Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center and the U.S. Economic Development Administration, is pleased to announce Bloomfield Robotics as its fourth company selected to participate in […]

Cybersecurity + Agriculture – Hardening the Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Against Threats

Cyber Sunday event is part of the 2021 Maryland Farm Bureau Conference

Eastern Shore Nonprofit to Offer Funding, Services to Innovative Agribusinesses

The Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center is seeking start-ups and beginning businesses specializing in agriculture and aquaculture innovation to participate in its next F3 Tech Accelerator Program. F3 is short for Farm-Fish-Food, and the technical accelerator program aims to help agriculture and aquaculture operations become financially successful and sustainable as they navigate intensive periods of business […]

Sustainable Food Chains Matter – Here’s Why

Despite a global pandemic and a host of supply chain disruptions, companies still keep sustainability top of mind in today’s cold food chains. Maintaining a sustainable food chain both upstream and down comes with a host of challenges and opportunities. “Never before have we witnessed a disruption to our food chain as was seen in […]

Second Cyberag Symposium Takes Deep Dive into Cybersecurity Issues Affecting Agriculture and Aquaculture – Registration Now Open

EASTON, Md; March 19, 2021 To help address the ever-increasing threat of cyberattacks against the U.S. food industry, the second Cyberag Symposium on April 14 will bring together experts from the agriculture and cybersecurity sectors to discuss and discover solutions to security problems. Registration is free and the symposium will be held virtually. “Advancements in […]

First Three Subject Matter Expert Companies Announced by Chesapeake Agricultural Innovation Center

EASTON, Md; March 3, 2021 The Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center (ESEC), announced three of the Subject Matter Expert (SME) companies that will be providing services to the constituents of ESEC’s new Chesapeake Agricultural Innovation Center (CAIC). “We are pleased to welcome Grow and Fortify, Cureate, and Kitchen Table Consultants as the first SMEs who will […]

AUTO-ROTATING OYSTER CAGES AIM TO REINVENT AQUACULTURE

One of F3 Tech’s Accelerator companies is using solar power to operate cutting-edge oyster growing equipment. Solar Oysters LLC’s invention allows the bivalves to grow vertically in the water column instead of horizontally. It has the support of Bay restoration heavyweights. Cheryl Costello got to see the promising technology up close. Watch below: @F3TechMD #agtech […]

These Maryland companies have teamed up to help grow oysters in deeper water — with the help of solar energy

Two Maryland companies have teamed up to design a solar-powered barge that could bring oyster farming into deeper parts of the Chesapeake Bay, improving the estuary’s oyster output and perhaps easing conflicts with watermen and waterfront landowners. The two companies — Maritime Applied Physics Corp. and the EcoLogix Group — are developing a rig mounted […]

Coastal farmers in Maryland and across Mid-Atlantic being driven off their land as salt poisons the soil

With seas rising, farmers along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts increasingly suffer from one of the initial impacts of climate change: saltwater intrusion. The plague of salt is arriving not just from storms and tide but also underground, where it can migrate undetected until crops shrivel. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Coastal farmers in […]

Agtech sector grows to decade high with $1.6B in Q3

VCs throughout the world invested $1.6 billion in agtech companies last quarter, bringing the year’s total to $4.2 billion. Although the capital raised in Q3 marks a 14% drop from Q2, the sector has already hit a decade high for annual deal value, with the total through Sept. 30 surpassing the full-year amount for 2019. […]