Agree Market: Creating a Global Marketplace for Agriculture Trading

Agriculture is, by its very nature, a local industry. Crops are grown in the field, sold to nearby wholesalers, and then progress through a supply chain of middlemen and other vendors. What farmers need, then is direct access to the worldwide market. Learn how one company is making that a reality with a new digital platform at “Creating a Global Marketplace for Agriculture Trading,” a webinar featuring Rogier Kievit, International Market Director of Agree Market.

Agree Marketplace has built a trading platform that allows users to buy or sell grains, oilseeds, byproducts, and specialty crops anywhere, anytime. It’s a global marketplace that connects counterparts all over the world.

FarmLead: Buy & Sell Grains with Ease

What farmers think of as “marketing” is often completely different from marketing in any other industry. Without the proper tools to engage the grain market directly, from a marketing standpoint, there isn’t any marketing going on at all. There are major challenges of grain marketing that can hold farmers back from getting the optimal price for their product. Learn how one company is bridging this gap with an online marketplace platform at “Buy & Sell Grain With Ease,” a webinar featuring Brennan Turner, CEO of FarmLead.

FarmLead is an online grain marketplace that enables farms to meet digitally to buy and sell grain. The platform allows farmers and credit-approved buyers to negotiate and transact directly with one another. With FarmLead, users can instantly expand their reach nationwide, with the flexibility to post what they’re looking for and to negotiate terms that suit their needs, 24/7.

Mercaris: Bringing Market Intelligence to Sustainable Agriculture

Agriculture, food and their related industries are, simply put, a massive market. They contributed a combined $1.05 trillion to U.S. GDP in 2016, a 5.7% share, with farms alone accounting for 1% of total GDP. Within the agriculture and food space, sales of organic products int he U.S. totaled a new record of $49.4 billion in 2017, up 6.4% from 2016. Organic labeled products accounted for 5.5% of the food sold in U.S retail channels. But, for decades, the industry has been isolated from this market, unable to perform analytics, gain insights from price and sales trends, and more. Learn how Mercaris is bridging this gap with new tech-enabled tools at “Bringing Market Intelligence to Sustainable Agriculture,” a webinar featuring Jessie Bovay of Mercaris.

New West Genetics: Genetics, Breeding and Production Solutions for High-Quality Hemp

Building on its experience breeding plants like rice and canola, New West Genetics is now using its proprietary methods and knowledge base to improve the genetics and growing processes of Cannabis sativa, initially starting with hemp and eventually expanding to higher THC varieties as regulation eases. Its varieties are bred with the mission of improving economic access to this versatile and valuable plant while building a sustainable foundation within the cannabis production industry. New West Genetics is partnering with diverse companies to breed genetically stable cannabis varieties with specific agronomic traits and chemotypic profiles to suit their brands and product development needs.

Tiger Fiber Hemp: American Hemp from American Farmers

The United States is at the dawn of one of the largest agricultural revolutions our country has ever experienced. The legalization of industrial hemp presents an opportunity to radically transform the landscape of agriculture, manufacturing, and retail which can serve as a cornerstone to a new wave of local, regional, and nationwide prosperity. Tiger Fiber is working to connect hemp farmers, processors, companies, researchers, and politicians, provide the necessary tools and marketplace for the agricultural community at large to embrace this opportunity.