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.

About this episode

The episode discusses recent developments in AgTech, including M&A trends and government partnerships for food security.

📺 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…

People in this episode

Guest: Blake Croegaert

Topics covered

• AgTech
• M&A
• Food Security
• Controlled Environment Agriculture
• Crop Science
• Investment

Keywords

• AgTech
• M&A reset
• food security
• controlled environment agriculture
• crop diagnostics
• investment portfolio
• gene editing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: USDA, Palantir, Premier Tech, Inno-3B, Artechno, Advanced Growing Resources, Pairwise, Ball Horticultural, AgroPlantae, Kemin Industries

Places: Oman

More episodes of AgTech Digest

• AeroFarms, Goterra, Innovafeed, Leaf Agriculture, SWARM Engineering, Village Farms, ADM, Temasek, Bayer, Canada (government), Cibus, HiFe Plants, Nambawan, Orbia Netafim, Vanguard Renewables · June 12, 2026 · 12 min
• Glyphosate Alternatives: Safer Weed Control for Farmers - with Frank Glatz - Managing Director, Contact BioSolutions · June 9, 2026 · 42 min
• Van der Ende Group, Hortispeed, Alpine Fresh, abbGrowers B.V., Munters, Optifarm, OCI Global, OCI Nitrogen, AGROFERT, Limagrain, European Investment Bank, Converge Bio, Gates Foundation, 701x, Ever.Ag · June 5, 2026 · 12 min
• TransFRESH, Chiquita, Hazel Technologies, Harrison Co., Elbit Systems FUSE, Bluewhite Robotics, Infinite Roots, Bosque Foods, FoodLabs, SOSV, Blue Horizon · May 29, 2026 · 10 min
• URUS Group, EIB, BNP Paribas, Resurrect Bio, Corteva, Infinite Acres, FAO · May 22, 2026 · 13 min
• Oishii, SPARX Asset Management, Nomura Real Estate Development, MISUMI Group, Mizuho Bank, S2G Investments, Solum Partners, IFAD, Mitsubishi Electric, VeriGrai… Oishii, SPARX Asset Management, Apollo Agriculture, Kaleidofin, Corteva, Vylor · May 15, 2026 · 11 min