Discover 5 Top Intensive Farming Startups

Curious about new technological advancements in the agritech industry? Explore our analysis of 169 global intensive farming startups & scaleups & learn how their solutions impact your business!

Staying ahead of the technology curve means strengthening your competitive advantage. That is why we give you data-driven innovation insights into the agritech industry. This time, you get to discover 5 hand-picked startups developing intensive farming solutions.

Global Startup Heat Map: 5 Top Intensive Farming Startups

The 5 agritech startups you will explore below are chosen based on our data-driven startup scouting approach, taking into account factors such as location, founding year, and relevance of technology, among others. This analysis is based on the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 1.3 million startups & scaleups globally.

The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights the 5 intensive farming startups & scaleups our Innovation Researchers curated for this report. Moreover, you get insights into regions that observe a high startup activity and the global geographic distribution of the 169 companies we analyzed for this specific topic.

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Carbon Neutral Ag Sciences creates Super-Absorbent Soil Amendments

Unlike extensive farming, intensive agriculture strives to achieve more productivity of land and livestock via effective resource utilization. However, when abused, traditional intensive farming brings in disadvantages in the form of excessive usage of chemicals, human & animal health risks, deforestation, and, consequently, resource overuse and biodiversity loss. In order to further prevent these issues, startups develop new innovative products that enhance crop or livestock productivity and reduce their polluting footprint.

The US-based startup Carbon Neutral Ag Sciences provides a highly-absorbent environmentally-friendly soil amendment. The startup’s product, BountiGel, increases the efficiency of intensive crop farming. Available in granular and powder versions, it stabilizes soil moisture and reduces moisture-related stress on seeds. Due to the fact that it retains up to 150 times of its weight in water, BountiGel consistently stores and releases nutrients for superior yields.

Smallhold establishes Mushroom Mini-Farms

To capture various market segments, a lot of contemporary plant and produce growers establish mini- or micro-farms. These mobile farming installations usually require lower energy, space, or human input, but still, generate stable and high yields. As a result, they combine the benefits of intensive farming and cost-effective agri-production. Applications vary from broadly popular vertical urban farms to shrimp micro-farms and mushroom mini-farms, among others.

The US-based startup Smallhold creates modular subscription-based mini-farms and kits for growing mushrooms. Automated and remotely managed, the startup’s growing technology produces more than 60 pounds (lbs) per week. Owing to the controlled-environment and compact form factor cultivation, Smallhold caters to the needs of individual and small businesses.

FreshGraze builds Automated and Controlled Grazing Systems

Controlled and rotational grazing is a widely established intensive farming practice. It enables the comprehensive management of grass plants and feeding the ruminants, while alternating land areas for more productive use. Emerging agriculture startups digitize and automate rotational grazing, as well as make it more data-driven. They use sensors, programmed hardware, analytics, and forecasting software, among other technologies, to achieve this.

Irish startup FreshGraze develops a controlled grazing management platform and an automated moving fence system. The solution allocates measured strips of fresh grass to ruminants at a specified rate. This minimizes the waste of grazed pastures and forage, as well as enables intensive use of land to increase productivity and avoid overgrazing.

Insolight develops Agrivoltaics

Contemporary intensive practices not only unite different branches of agriculture but also integrate farming with other industrial sectors like energy production. One of such use cases is agrivoltaics, an emerging technology for symbiotic land use for plant growth and solar power generation. Startups strive to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic panels while eliminating shading to maintain high yields.

Swiss startup Insolight develops an easy-to-mount agrivoltaic installation, THEIA, based on translucent PV modules. Using a patented planar optical micro-tracking technology, THEIA achieves higher light concentration and solar cell efficiency. It nurtures plants under a microclimate effect without any direct sunlight. In this way, Insolight’s solution decarbonizes agricultural activities and offers new revenue streams.

Sensprout elaborates Irrigation Control Solutions

To attain and maintain planned productivity levels, irrigated agriculture facilities require smart water management systems. This is crucial to obtain higher outputs with less water input. To this end, startups and scaleups develop complex irrigation hardware and software solutions. These range from simple spraying retrofits to remote control, moisture sensors, drones, precision control, and optimization platforms.

Japanese startup Sensprout creates intensive irrigation control solutions for large greenhouse facilities. The startup’s solutions feature smart soil moisture sensors, an intelligent spraying system, and remote control functionalities. Sensprout’s plug-and-play irrigation control solutions maintain the required amount of water while reducing human input and providing analytical insights.

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