Agricultural carbon just stopped being a pilot project: two record offtakes landed in the same week, one of them 4.45 million tonnes.
Agreena signed a seven-year agreement to sell 4.45 million tonnes of CO2e soil-carbon credits to an unnamed global commodity trading house — the largest publicly disclosed agricultural carbon deal to date. The credits come from a targeted 1.6 million hectares in northern Kazakhstan's grain belt, Agreena's 21st market, where the move away from conventional tillage is expected to save farmers 40–60 litres of diesel per hectare. Days later, Mitti Labs committed up to 1 million rice-methane credits to Google by 2030, the largest rice-methane offtake on record, across three Indian states.
Also this week: Innventure opened Food and Agtech Fund II with ecosystem partners including Bayer Crop Science, Aapresid and Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario; Tellia raised $5 million in pre-seed led by Revent for voice data capture in the field, reporting 80% daily active use at Campos Brothers Farms and Duckhorn; Bayer and Neste finalized a commercial agreement to scale newgold winter canola across the U.S. Southern Great Plains; Corteva and Globachem formed a 50/50 crop-protection joint venture for Europe and the Americas; Amoeba secured exclusive European distribution with Syngenta for its Willaertia-based biofungicide from 2028; AMVAC launched Duro LQ and BioWorks launched BioRain Ax; KUHN debuted the 47-foot GMD 15030 mounted disc mower; Napa Green won a $3 million conservation grant with $2 million passed directly to growers; Flyttr broke ground in San Antonio on the first U.S. large-scale pest-biosecurity platform; and Purdue's Ag Economy Barometer rose to 135 in August.
This week's premium edition, Thin Harvest, narrows the ledger to agriculture alone: $670 million flowed into ag in August 2026, a debt-heavy month in which government money and loans outweighed venture rounds and the average check shrank sharply from July — deal by deal, with M&A and year-to-date context from the iGrow Intelligence database.
98.Fieldwork Robotics, Place UK, Littywood Farm, Monarch Tractor, UNS Farms, Syngenta, FMC, AgroLoop Hungary, TerraClear, Five Star Cooperative, Innov8.ag, Deere, and CNH Industrial.
00:08:11
97.Interview Series: Giovanni Angiolini on GCC Food Security: Execution, Investment Discipline and the Future of CEA
00:47:46
96.NDSU, CAAIN, Nature Robots, Bom Group, HX Agriculture, Gevo, La Zone Agtech, Ferme O Menu, Fermes Borea, DENSO, FoodVentures, CIBO Technologies, Ingredion, LettUs Grow, Casterra, Resource Innovation Institute, Arco Murray, and Vertical Harvest.
00:08:05
95.Halter, Miraterra, Total Seed Production, Bayer, Agrim, Asia Impact Fund, Equinox Growers, Taylor Farms, Ecorobotix, University of Essex, Cauldron Ferm, Swegreen, Volta Greentech, Axel Johnson Group, Edible Garden, and Tetra Pak.
00:06:44
94.ICL, Solugen, Reservoir, Syngenta, Fresh Del Monte, Del Monte Foods, Frontera Ag, PlantSustain, Resurrect Bio, Corteva, Carbon Robotics, and LEBEC.
00:08:08
93.Interview: Afzal Hussain Mohammed Nakheeb
00:53:45
92.Tropic, Living Models, Ag Startup Engine, Cytotrait, KOMO Biosciences, Syngenta, Horticoop, 25:2, IBI Ag, ADAMA, AgroIntelli, and Artechno.
86.Bayer, Solynta, EW Group, Syngenta, AGRONOVA Biotech, Asfertglobal, Cropin, Heritable Agriculture, Barnwell Bio, Rovensa Next, FAUVE, Ecobloom, New Growing System, and North Carolina State University.
81.TTA-ISO, FoodLabs, Farmers Edge, Case IH, Phoenix Manufacturing, Rovensa Next, Koppert, InEdita Bio, Veragrow, Provivi, Syngenta, Locus Fermentation Solutions, DENSO, DELPHY, and Egypt’s indoor farming market
00:08:07
80.XAG, OpenAgri, CNH Industrial, Bushel Plus, Ancient Organics, Enko, Bayer Crop Science, Arevo, SynTech Research, Biotalys, CANNA, Agroz, SANlight, Cree LED, Sollum Technologies, and SOLASTA Bio
00:13:01
79.BASF Digital Farming, Just Climate, AgroStar, XAG, New Holland, PI Industries, Plant Health Care Plc (now PI AgSciences), Roquette, Cascadia Seaweed, CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency), Centuria Capital Group, Perfection Fresh, HIC Venture Studio
77.Syngenta, Doktar, Trapview, DJI Agriculture, CLAAS, Origin Agritech Ltd., Shandong Shunfeng Biotechnology Co., Ltd., China Agricultural University, IBI Ag, Corteva Inc., The Trendlines Group, Bandera Capital, FirstImagine Ventures, Bindwell, General Catalyst, A Capital
00:14:56
76.Kula Bio, Ginkgo Bioworks, Bayer, Pairwise, International Rice Research Institute, Arevo, Industrifonden, Fort Knox Förvaring AB,
58.Ambrook, ZenaTech, Bunge, Kelly Hills, Source Agriculture, GDM, Terrana Biosciences, FMC, Agrobiomics, Syngenta, and The Reservoir, Flagship Pioneering, Terrana Biosciences, Cargill, Oasis Grower Solutions, Del Monte Foods, Little Leaf Farms
22.Serra Ventures, BioPrime, Acadian Plant Health, BASF Agricultural Solutions, John Deere, DeLaval, Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), Topraq, Baird Farm, Farmblox - This Week in AgTech - Ep. 022
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21.xFarm Technologies, Proteine Resources, Greeneration, AcreShield, Blue Radix, GrowDirector & Soli Organic - This Week in AgTech
00:13:26
20.Entosystem, AgroSpheres , Vision Greens, BeeHero, Syngenta, CropX, Garford Farm, Biotalys & Rantizo - This Week in AgTech
00:12:59
19.SVG Ventures, Micropep Technologies, Pyka, James Hutton Institute, Ginkgo Bioworks, NOVUS International, Zoetis, Danone, Nanovel, Enko Chem, Ynsect & Gevo - This Week in AgTech
00:12:51
18.Pairwise, AdvanSix, BrightFarms, CropX, John Deere, & CIBO Technologies - This Week in AgTech
00:10:59
17.Harnois Greenhouses, Catalera BioSolutions, S2G Ventures, Terramera, SOLASTA Bio, Forbion, FCC, Corteva Catalyst, Farmland LP, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund - This Week in AgTech