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GeekWire – Why these successful software founders are planting seeds for new ag tech ventures. Farmers typically consult the calendar and the weather forecast to figure out when to plant their crops, but figuring out how to grow a tech startup focused on the farm can be a far more complex task. The challenge can […]

Idaho Company Aims To Automate Rock Picking – Ag Proud Editor Walk Cooley A northern Idaho startup will place a dozen automated rock picking implements with farmers this growing season. The most unique feature of the company’s new implement is a hydraulically powered arm with a rubber belt-driven pincer that can quickly aid farmers picking […]

Capital Press – “Rock-Picking Robot: First maps, then full automation will do worst job on any farm” TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Brent Frei grew up on a dryland wheat farm on the Camas Prairie of northern Idaho. And like every farm kid, he picked his share of rocks without giving much thought to the age-old, […]

The American Farm Bureau Federation, in partnership with Farm Credit, is advancing ag innovation by supporting start-ups from across the country through the 2021 Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge. AFBF and Farm Credit today announced the 10 semi-finalist teams in the competition. “The hard-working entrepreneurs recognized today are committed to providing solutions for some of […]

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TerraClear wants to aid farmers in creating new and better approaches to field management. The company currently develops technology to revolutionize the process of rock removal from fields. TerraClear integrates machine vision and GPS to make their automated rock-picking solution accurate and easy to use. This company was founded in 2017 and has received two […]

Geekwire recently announced the 2020 award finalists and TerraClear has been nominated for Hardware/Gadget/Robotics of the year. We would love your support here! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T9TJF8Z Our team is dedicated to improving farmers’ productivity through automation and we’re starting with a hard problem – rock picking. We are making steady progress towards efficiently mapping the rocks in a farmer’s fields […]

Clearing rocks out of fields probably isn’t something we’re all super familiar with, but it’s a very real problem for farmers. Like a lot of agricultural solutions we’ve seen crop up in the past few years, tech is providing an answer. TerraClear uses drones, neural networks, maps with geolocation and robots to make life easier for farmers […]

TerraClear’s bid to upend the farming industry by using advanced technology to help farmers clear rocks from fields is producing a reliable crop — cash. The startup just closed a $6.1 million funding round led by Madrona Venture Group  to bring its total capital raised to more than $13 million since launching in December 2017. […]