Press Releases
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Agrology Unveils the First-to-Market Low-Cost Nitrous Flux Sensor for Agriculture
November 12, 2024
Agrology today launched the first real-time, in-field nitrous oxide (N2O) flux sensor, breaking new ground for climate-smart agriculture. This technology advances efforts by farmers, academics and supply chain partners who are seeking scalable solutions to accurately measure nitrous oxide and other GHG emissions at scale in commercial agriculture. Currently undergoing rigorous in-field validation with experts and partners, the Agrology Nitrous Flux Sensor is available in limited quantities, with a commercial release slated for early 2025.
Adam Koeppel, Co-Founder and CEO of Agrology, highlighted the challenge and opportunity: “Accurately measuring N₂O emissions at scale has been a significant barrier, limiting the adoption of practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our Nitrous Flux Sensor changes that by enabling precise nitrogen application without compromising yield, empowering growers to implement agricultural practices that lower emissions effectively.”
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Bonterra Organic Estates Releases New Data Demonstrating the Impact of Climate-Smart Practices on Vineyard Soil Health
October 7, 2024
Bonterra Organic Estates, the largest Regenerative Organic Certified® winery in the U.S., continues to advocate for the advancement of regenerative viticulture by sharing data that showcases how their farming practices enhance soil health. The California-based winery utilizes Agrology's advanced soil and carbon monitoring technology to gather unprecedented real-time insights into the climate-smart impacts of its regenerative farming methods.
“In wine, the soil is our story and we now have deeper insights into how our viticulture practices are actually impacting the long-term legacy of that story,” said Joseph Brinkley, Senior Director of Regenerative Organic Development at Bonterra Organic Estates. “For many decades, we’ve recognized the significant benefits of regenerative and organic farming practices for the health and vitality of our vineyards. Having real-time data to validate these benefits and guide our future actions is transformative.”
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Leading Regenerative Agriculture Experts, Dr. Jessica Chiartas and Chuck Schembre, Join Agrology as Scientific Advisors
August 27, 2024
Agrology is thrilled to announce that two esteemed soil health experts, Dr. Jessica Chiartas and Chuck Schembre, have joined the company as scientific advisors. Their deep soil health knowledge and experience will be instrumental in guiding Agrology customers to interpret and utilize soil data and more intimately understand the impacts of regenerative agriculture practices. In addition, the advisors will help Agrology advance their Arbiter product, develop new soil health metrics to help inform grower decision-making, and ensure that Agrology data meets the highest scientific standards. In addition, the advisors will help Agrology advance their Arbiter product, develop new soil health metrics to help inform grower decision-making, and ensure that Agrology data meets the highest scientific standards. “The role of soil health in sustaining and enhancing agricultural productivity has never been more critical."
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Leading Produce Growers Bowles Farming Company, Braga Fresh Family Farms, and Taylor Farms Innovate Soil Health Management with Technology
June 24, 2024
Three leading growers install the Agrology Arbiter System to track their in-field carbon footprints and soil health, drive farm management decisions, and improve the environmental impact of their regenerative farming practices
This groundbreaking collaboration underscores a commitment to building soil health as a cornerstone for the future of farming. Each grower now utilizes the Agrology Arbiter System to monitor and measure the impact of their regenerative programs on soil health, microbial function, soil carbon stocks, and water conservation.
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SVG Ventures | THRIVE Announces Tenth Cohort of Global Scale-Ups
March 20, 2024
SVG Ventures | THRIVE is proud to announce the selection of its tenth cohort, THRIVE Global X. This milestone year of programming marks the continuation of THRIVE’s mission to support scale-up companies in their journey towards growth within the global AgriFood tech sector.
The selected companies, chosen through a rigorous process that included the evaluation of over 1000 applications will embark on a six-month Global scale-up program starting in June 2024. This comprehensive program aims to facilitate investment, mentorship, curated resources, and corporate engagement for the participating companies. The culmination of the program will be marked by a demo day in September, followed by THRIVE’s Global Impact Summit & Startup Bootcamp in November.
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The IFPA Presents Braga Fresh and Agrology with the ‘Science & Technology Circle of Excellence Award’ for Accurately Measuring and Quantifying the Results of Soil Health, Soil Carbon, and Regenerative Agriculture
October 30, 2023
Agrology and Braga Fresh are joint recipients of the annual Science & Technology Circle of Excellence Award at the IFPA Global Produce & Floral Show in Anaheim. The award was presented by IFPA’s Chief Science Office, Max Teplitski, to Eric Morgan of Braga Fresh and Charlie Dubbe of Agrology.
With this award, each year IFPA recognizes changemakers for their contributions and accomplishments in the produce and floral industries that advance the industry through innovation, collaboration and superior leadership. Braga Fresh and Agrology were honored as a result of the work they did to monitor, measure and quantify soil carbon flux and soil respiration, key indicators of soil microbiome health and activity.
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Agrology Receives Phase IIB Funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
October 25, 2023
Agrology today announced that the company received $500,000 in Phase IIB Funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop Agrology’s real-time soil carbon and nitrous oxide emission monitoring technology. America’s Seed Fund is powered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and awards $200 million annually to startups and small businesses, transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial and societal impact. “NSF grants require an incredibly rigorous process and we are thrilled to pass this difficult milestone for a third time,” said Adam Koeppel, Co-Founder and CEO of Agrology.
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New Agrology Desktop Portal Empowers Growers to Customize, Visualize and Apply Data to their Business Needs
October 5, 2023
Agrology today unveiled a new Grower Portal that puts the power of self service and customized data into the hands of growers. The Grower Portal provides Agrology customers with a web-based version of the Agrology platform that includes new features like easy-to-create polished reports, in-depth data overlays, and the ability to easily export data. The Grower Portal complements the real-time data growers receive in the Agrology iOS app, enabling them to dig deep into ground-truth data on irrigation, smoke risk and smoke taint, moisture levels, weather and microclimates, pest and disease pressure, soil carbon and nitrous flux.
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Viticulturists Can Now Receive 4-Day Predictions, Issue Work Orders, and Take Action Using Their Mobile Devices
August 29, 2023
Agrology and Process2Wine today unveiled an integrated solution for grape growers and viticulturists. Process2Wine now offers an Agrology integration that delivers predictions up to 4-days out, enabling growers to respond to threats and take immediate action through Process2Wine work orders. In addition, for customers who add on the Agrology platform, real-time ground-truth data will appear in the Process2Wine app, making it easy to manage issues like irrigation optimization, pest and disease pressure, microclimate threats from heat or frost, as well as wildfire threats and smoke taint.
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First ‘Farm Of The Future’ Summit Held In Sonoma County
July 25, 2023
In recognition that climate impacts and marketplace dynamics are becoming more frequent and extreme for farmers, the Sonoma County Winegrowers invited experts from some of the country’s most iconic and innovative companies to gather in Sonoma County last week for its inaugural Farm of the Future Summit. These leaders answered a call to action to collaborate with farmers in Sonoma County to ensure the future of agriculture. They convened to plan, identify challenges and discuss potential collaborations and pilot projects that will be tested throughout Sonoma County’s certified sustainable vineyards.
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UC Davis and Agrology Expand Partnership to Understand Higher-Level Thresholds for Smoke Risk in Vineyards
July 18, 2023
Agrology and UC Davis today announced an extended partnership that includes a new research project that aims to understand smoke risk thresholds in vineyards. The UC Davis Viticulture and Enologist team of Dr. Anita Oberholster has begun to conduct research projects that use Agrology sensors to monitor and measure volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and volatile phenol concentrations.
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New Webinar Focuses on Carbon Measurement Strategies for Growers
June 22, 2023
Agrology and the Napa Resource Conservation District (RCD) today announced a new webinar titled,“Soil Carbon Measurement Strategies and How They Tie into Carbon Planning.” Hosted by Agrology co-founder and CEO, Adam Koeppel, and Miguel Garcia, PhD, Sustainable Agriculture Program Manager for the Napa Resource Conservation District (RCD), this webinar will be a deep dive into the various regenerative agriculture measurement tools that are available for growers and their implications for companies who are carbon planning.
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Be Prepared This Fire Season: Download Agrology’s Free App To Access Real-Time Fire Map Data
May 15, 2023
Agrology, a leading Predictive Agriculture company, today launched a new Fire Map that enables growers to monitor active fires within a 20-mile radius of any location in the world. As part of the company’s commitment to empowering growers with actionable, real-time data, Agrology is providing everyone free access to the Agrology Fire Map. Users simply download the Agrology iOS app in the Apple App Store to gain access to the map.
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Leading Sustainability Entrepreneur and Global C-Suite Officer, Devry Boughner Vorwerk, Joins the Agrology Advisory Board
March 20, 2023
Agrology, a leading Predictive Agricultural company and a Public Benefit Corporation, today announced that leading sustainability expert, Devry Boughner Vorwerk, has joined the Agrology advisory board. As a key advisor to the company, Devry will work closely with the Agrology executive team to further the company’s sustainability interests, both nationally and abroad.
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Welcome to the Future of Climate-Smart Farming: Introducing Agrology’s Arbiter Carbon Monitoring System, the Only System to Continuously Monitor & Quantify Soil Carbon Flux
March 6, 2023
Agrology, a leading Predictive Agriculture company, today launched the Arbiter Carbon Monitoring System, the only system that continuously monitors and quantifies soil carbon flux for farmers. The Agrology Arbiter System helps growers track and quantify soil carbon, delivering carbon flux data and soil health data to growers on their mobile and desktop devices.
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Agrology Unveils Block-Level Vintage Reports that Enable Customers to Visualize Data from an Entire Growing Season in One Easy-to-Read Document
January 24, 2023
Leading Predictive Agriculture company, Agrology, today unveiled new Agrology Vintage Reports that summarize a grower’s season data in one easy-to-read report. Each Agrology customer annually receives these vineyard and block-level reports that demonstrate how various environmental issues impacted the previous vintage.
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Agrology and Process2Wine Announce Strategic Partnership to Integrate Ground-Truth Data into the Vineyard Management Process, Empowering Growers to Take Action When Needed
January 19, 2023
Agrology, a leading Predictive Agriculture company, and Process2Wine, a SaaS platform of new generation business applications dedicated to professionals in the wine and spirits industry, today announced a partnership to provide Agrology data to Process2Wine customers. The two companies will work together to enable growers to receive predictions and take action when threats like extreme weather and wildfires occur.
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Agrology and Partners Receive Approximately $5M in USDA Grants for Climate-Smart Agriculture
January 4, 2023
Agrology, a seed-stage climate technology start-up, today announced that the company is one of six partners awarded approximately $5M in funding from the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative. Together the partners will further develop the capacity for growers to quantify climate-smart practices. Agrology was chosen as the partner to quantify regenerative practices in real time due to their MRV platform, ground-truth measurements, and monitoring of greenhouse gasses and soil carbon respiration.
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Agrology Raises SEED Funding to Drive Growth and Help Farmers Combat Climate Change
November 28, 2022
With the impact of climate change accelerating, farmers require new technologies to maintain yields and implement regenerative practices. That’s why today Agrology and Active Impact Investments announced an investment partnership to drive the market growth of Agrology’s Regenerative and Predictive Agriculture Platform. Active Impact Investments invested in Agrology’s SEED round to scale the start-up’s climate technology solutions for growers. es here
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Agrology Wins a 10th Annual Wine Industry Innovations Award
November 8, 2022
The winners of Wine Industry Network’s 10th annual WINnovation Awards for excellence in wine industry innovation are announced. Agrology’s predictive agriculture technology platform is named a 2022 winner.
Each year, Wine Industry Network recognizes five wine industry innovators — not just for their impressive ingenuity or technical advances — but because of how their product and/or service betters the North American wine industry.
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Agrology Partners with Google Cloud to Help Farmers Combat Climate Change and Achieve Sustainability Goals
September 7, 2022
Agrology, a leading Predictive Agriculture company, today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to assist farmers with sustainable and regenerative agriculture practices. Using Agrology’s Predictive Agriculture Platform, growers are leveraging Google Cloud and TensorFlow to monitor crops and receive predictions on irrigation, extreme weather, soil carbon respiration and sequestration, pest and disease outbreaks, and more.
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Fire Season 2022: Agrology is Ready to Protect Your Vineyards
July 13, 2022
Wildfires are annual events for grape growers and 2022 is proving to be another challenging year. Supply chain issues unfortunately impacted many agricultural technology suppliers. However, Agrology has a built-up inventory of sensors on hand to help growers through this immediate fire season
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Agrology Joins the LoRa Alliance® to Scale Agrology’s IoT Network Across Rural Farming Communities
June 1, 2022
Agrology has joined the LoRa Alliance®, one of the fastest growing Internet of Things (IoT) alliances in the world. Using LoRaWAN® Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) technology, Agrology is accelerating the development of its proprietary IoT network of GroundTruth sensors across rural farming communities.
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Agricultural Industry Leader, Mark Linder, Brings Decades of Experience to Agrology’s Advisory Board
March 23, 2022
Agrology, the leading Predictive Agricultural company and a Public Benefit Corporation, today announced that leading agriculture expert, Mark Linder, has joined the Agrology advisory board. Mr. Linder brings over 35 years of experience serving California and American Agriculture.
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California’s Megadrought to Hit the Wine Industry Hard: New 2021 End-of-Season Irrigation Report Shows Extreme Levels of Soil Water Deficit
March 7, 2022
Agrology unveils their ‘2021 Drought Irrigation End of Season Report’ and data shows the impact of the drought on Napa and Sonoma vineyards. Report includes advice on how to use predictive and precision viticulture technology to implement deficit irrigation strategies.
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Wyld Networks and Agrology to Use Satellite IoT so Farms Can Collect Data in Remote Locations
February 15, 2022
Wyld Networks and Agrology today announced a partnership to integrate Wyld Connect into Agrology’s ground truth predictive agriculture platform. Wyld Connect is a low-cost, IoT global connectivity network based on low-orbit satellite systems. The technology ensures that Agrology ground truth sensors will continue to gather data, from even the most remote locations, and can deliver that data quickly to Agrology customers–regardless of connectivity status. -
Climate Tech for Agriculture: Now is the Time to Plan for Smoke Taint, Extreme Weather and Other Climate Events New List Item
January 19, 2022
Agrology, the leading Predictive Agricultural company, today issued a 2021 Agrology Smoke Exposure Report for Sonoma and Napa counties to the public. This industry report looks broadly at the smoke exposure across both counties based on proprietary and public data collected throughout the region in 2021 and is a subset of the type of information provided to Agrology customers at the end of their growing seasons.
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Growers Now Have Access to AI Technology for Predicting and Addressing Microclimate Weather Risks with Agrology’s New Extreme Weather Alerts
December 8, 2021
Agrology, the leading Predictive Agricultural company, today unveiled a new Extreme Weather Alert feature that applies machine learning (ML) to ground truth data collected by Agrology sensors and public weather data. Agrology now offers a cost-effective system for farmers to plan for and mitigate the threats posed by changing weather patterns, smoke taint, irrigation, and climate change…
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Agrology Introduces the First Effective, Affordable, and Easy to Use, Predictive Agriculture System for the Wine Industry & Specialty Crops.
November 1, 2021
Agrology today introduced the first Predictive Agricultural System that is an effective, affordable, and easy to use way to predict and address a variety of critical farming challenges. Agrology’s patented system includes affordable hypersignal sensors that capture the full spectrum of agronomic data, machine learning (AI) technology, and actionable insights via an Agrology mobile app ...
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