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The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit takes place in San Francisco on March 20-21. The event brings together more 900 major global agribusinesses, investors and ag-tech start-ups.

13 startups recognized with AgFunder Innovation Awards

AgLaunch, based in Memphis, Tenn., will be expanding its Farm-Centric Innovation Model to create agriculture businesses, attract investment capital, and enable farmers to participate in the innovation process.

“Precision agriculture owes its existence to the technology that now orbits the Earth and pretty much runs everything down below.”

“Farmers have to have a laser focus on what will make them money in the coming year because we have really tight margins, and technologies should be looked at as what can help immediately.”

At the very heart of agriculture is the drive to feed the world. AgTech is enabling farmers to do this more efficiently and effectively than ever, and major investors are watching closely.

A ‘new agricultural revolution’ is brewing, and farmers are in the center of it.

You can sell quite a lot of things on eBay – but you can’t sell corn and soybean bushels. You can sell them on a website called FarmLead, however. The online grain marketplace, which was started in Canada in 2013, hopes to expand significantly in the U.S. this year.

There may be too many investors with little or no knowledge about the Ag space who are latching onto the latest investment craze. Will it backfire?

Bowery, an indoor farming company that deploys a lot of high-tech solutions – including propriety software systems, robotics and monitoring plants via machine learning – announces it has secured a Series A funding round of $20 million from several investors, including General Catalyst, GGV and GV.