Expanded partnership integrates daily satellite imagery into Granular farm-management software suite to maximize crop potential.

The collaboration will give John Deere customers more tools to measure and improve their financial performance, and a program will be launched to reward Deere dealers who work with Granular.

I can vividly remember walking through the aisles of ag shows a couple years ago and seemingly stopping every few booths to grab a business card and a brief conversation with an ambitious entrepreneur looking to stake a claim in the ag tech industry.

A report by AgFunder.com reveals that investment in agriculture technology startups reached $3.23 billion in 2016, a 30% year-over-year decline. But it was a tale of two halves as the number of deals closed increased 10% to 580 due to an uptick in seed stage activity.

At the recent Agritechnica show in Hannover, Germany, we met Matija Zulj, founder & CEO of Agrivi, a software development company currently building comprehensive farm management software under the same name.

aWhere, a global ag intelligence company, announced the release of 19 new crop growth stage models accessible through its Weather aWhere API services.