Agtech Action | Week of 07.20.19-07.26.19
The latest & greatest agrifoodtech news (AKA: Things that Connie read this week.)
Happy Friday!
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Who’s excited for the Manure Challenge??? I am! Here’s the latest
Brownsfield Ag’s (interview with me)
Events & Opportunities:
The Yield Lab Europe Accelerator is accepting applications through July 31st
Agrifoodtech startups should apply for €100,000 in investment, intensive mentoring, and cohort-based programming!
InnovaSummit 2019 is a Corporate Venture Summit taking place in Santiago, Chile the 29th and 30th of August. The event will have an Agtech track and an agtech challenge sponsored by Rabofinance that will be looking for companies / startups that have at least one technological solution with pilot in operation, that can be scalable. The focus of the challenge will be to find more effective and sustainable solutions that contribute to increasing the production of food required to sustain the growing world population. The finalist projects will be presented on the second day of the InnovaSummit 2019.
More details of the event, speakers and challenges at www.innovasummit.com
Start-ups with innovative breakthrough technologies and solutions to improve supply chain efficiency and sustainability are invited to apply to Tesco Agri T-Jam & World Agri-Tech Pitch Day. Deadline is August 7. Apply & get details here.
Opportunities:
Solutions:
Q&A with Jon Nash on Cargill's new BeefUp Sustainability intitiative
Prioritize diversity < Do you lead a team, invest in teams, or add value to a team? Read this, it matters.
This week’s AgGrad 30under30 InterviewS, featuring a DOUBLE HEADER: Jonathan Hua, Program Manager at Thrive Accelerator, and Jessica Kueffer, Recruitment & Employee Development Manager at MFA Incorporated.
Policy:
How Climate Change will affect cost of Federal Crop Insurance Program
NYC trying to ban foie gras !!!! This is upsetting. Sorry Mom, if this goes through, no chance in hell I’m moving back East.
Removal of buffer zone law in Washington causes concerns about marijuana/hemp cross-contamination
Finance:
Arch Grants & Biogenerator awarded federal funding for Agtech Proof of Concept Center
Fairlife gets competition in the ultra-filtered category from Organic Valley
PepsiCo acquires Pioneer Foods Group to expand into S. Africa
Fun:
Wild yeasts bring off-beat terroirs to beer < Had a memorably awesome Brett beer the other day at one of my fave STL breweries, Second Shift.
BONUS: Fun fact of the day: Did you know the average dairy cow produces 82 lbs of manure per 1000 lb body weight daily (source)!? (We’re really on a 💩 theme here at The Yield Lab Institute.)
We co-host a webinar featuring different agrifood tech startups every Thursday at 3pm CDT as part of the AgriFood Conversations webinar series. In August, we will be featuring four webinars on Crop Protection. Sign up at AgrifoodConversations.com.
Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful weekend!
Connie
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