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F3 Tech Announces Record Number of Applications For 2020 Accelerator Program

Aug 12, 2020 (TS Newswire via Comtex) — Easton, MD — August 12, 2020 —F3 Tech, a leading commercialization program for early-stage companies, announced today that it received a record number of applications for its 2020 F3 Tech Accelerator Program. The F3 Tech Accelerator Program has received more applicants than ever before and is about to choose the […]

Bethesda Green’s Innovation Lab welcomes members of MBIA member programs to attend the following virtual sessions. Both sessions are going to be taught by Mac McCabe (bio below).    Session #1: Scenario Planning.  Tuesday, August 18th. 1-2:30pm. Register here. Many entrepreneurs accept deals without evaluating them well, missing both risks and opportunities to negotiate a better […]

Space to Grow, or Grow in Space – How Vertical Farms Could Be Ready to Take-off

Vertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi, but there is a growing environmental and economic case for them, according to new research laying out radical ways of putting food on our plates. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Space to Grow, or Grow in Space – How Vertical Farms Could Be […]

Trends in robotics: Cobots, agribots and medical robots

From recreational robots such as drones, to critical operational robots in the medical field, robotic technology is changing our daily lives. Here Stewart Goulding, managing director at precision drive system supplier Electro Mechanical Systems Ltd, explores some current trends in the industry. @F3TechMD #agtech #agritech #agribusiness #f3tech Source: Trends in robotics: Cobots, agribots and medical […]

AppHarvest raises $28M as Martha Stewart & Impossible Foods’ CFO join board

High-tech greenhouse startup AppHarvest has closed a $28 million Series C funding, added some big names to its board, and created a new chief people officer position. Narya, the new venture capital firm co-founded by author of best-selling novel Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance and Colin Greenspon as well as backed by leading entrepreneur and venture […]

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 […]