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Start-Up Journeys after World Agri-Tech

World Agri-Tech

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. We moved from a San Francisco office to a 20k sq ft manufacturing facility in Fremont, grew from 13 to 26 employees, and raised a $20M Series A. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing.

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The Top 10 Careers in Agriculture

Farmbrite

Agricultural engineers must be skilled in soil science, physics and chemistry as well as computer modeling techniques. Agricultural Inspectors and Testers In this job, you’ll work with farmers and manufacturers to ensure that their products meet government standards.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert. The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. billion in 2012 to $51.7