“All farmers are optimists” is the truism attributed to humorist Will Rogers. But Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture and the global exchange operator CME…
On Wednesday, energy major bp announced that it has acquired a majority stake in carbon offset developer Finite Carbon, adding to an existing investment in…
On Tuesday, Freight Farms, the venture-capital-funded agtech company that has cultivated the market for indoor, hydroponic farming inside shipping containers, announced a new renewable energy…
On Wednesday, Los Alamos startup UbiQD (Ubiquitous Quantum Dots), a leading developer of the advanced material known as quantum dots for light control in agriculture…
On Wednesday, Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, have announced the completion of the first renewable natural gas (RNG) production project…
On Tuesday, C2 Energy Capital LLC, a New York City-based investor and developer of distributed generation energy initiatives, whose $300 million portfolio of renewable assets spans…
On Monday, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), a division of Macquarie Group and one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, announced that one…
On Thursday, FirstLight, a U.S. provider of fiberoptic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to customers in the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, announced…
It’s not FarmVille—it’s better! Crop farming meets crowdfunding on FarmTogether, a new online investment platform that is backed by Franklin Templeton Legg Mason, the global…
On Wednesday, West Coast agtech and vertical farming startup Plenty Unlimited announced that it has secured $140 million in Series D funding. Existing investor SoftBank’s Vision…