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Investors Rewind 10 Years of AgTech: Supervillains, Heroes and Unexpected Truths

World Agri-Tech

Vipula Shukla, GATES FOUNDATION Vipula Shukla, Senior Program Officer, Agriculture R&D, THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION : “The hero is always the progressive, technology-driven farmer/producer who understands what does and does not add value to their operation. Crops take time to grow. HarvestHero is winning, barely.

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Are Companies Using Carbon Markets to Sell More Pesticides?

Civil Eats

In fact, the two practices that dominate current markets—no-till and cover crops—require herbicides to succeed in the way they’re practiced on most commodity farms. Farmers use herbicides to kill weeds that they could otherwise till under and to kill cover crops before planting a cash crop. That’s a good thing.

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