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Premier Tech, Inno-3B, Artechno, USDA, Palantir, Advanced Growing Resources, Pairwise, Ball Horticultural Company, Ridder, RED Horticulture, AgroPlantae, Kemin Industries, Grodan, Source.ag, Verdant Partners, Deere, AGCO, and CNH.
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- AgTech Digest
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- Apr 23, 2026
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- 484
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Summary
📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring Blake Croegaert of Verdant Partners on the AgTech M&A reset and why 2027 is the restart year, the USDA's $300 million Palantir partnership to modernize farm services, Oman's $240 million food security portfolio, Premier Tech's entry into controlled environment agriculture, and NASA and NSF-backed early crop diagnostics from Advanced Growing Resources. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: Interview: Blake Croegaert of Verdant Partners on the AgTech M&A reset — inflated valuations collapsed, OEM pullback, constrained exit channels, and why 2027 is the restart year Government: USDA signs $300M agreement with Palantir to modernize farm services and strengthen food security as a national security priority Food Security: Oman launches $240M food security investment portfolio across 11 agriculture and aquaculture projects through the Invest Oman platform CEA: Premier Tech enters the CEA market with Premier Tech Controlled Culture, backed by acquisitions of Inno-3B in Canada and Artechno in the Netherlands Crop Science: Advanced Growing Resources raises $2M from NASA and NSF for AI-satellite crop diagnostics a week earlier than lab methods; Pairwise partners with Ball Horticultural for gene editing across 40-plus ornamental species M&A: AgroPlantae to acquire Kemin Industries' Crop Technologies product portfolio including eight products; UK Government backs 50M pound agri-tech adoption push CEA Tech: Ridder partners with RED Horticulture to integrate greenhouse lighting and energy management via Horticultural Lighting Protocol; Grodan integrates GroSens root zone data with Source.ag software Events: Food…