Christopher Abbott

Pattern Ag uses predictive analytics to help farmers with input decisions such as crop protection, seed selection, and fertility needs. Pattern envisions a future where conventional agricultural inputs are enhanced and eventually replaced by precision microbiome engineering, improving farm productivity and sustainability.

We develop solutions to enhance global phosphorus use. Founded in April 2016 by Penn State graduates, Phospholutions has commercialized a patented technology called RhizoSorb to increase fertilizer efficiency.

Pivot Bio is one of the worlds leading innovative agtech companies, delivering farmers patented crop nutrition technologies.

Bushel is an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for farmers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies, headquartered in Fargo, N.D. Since launching in 2017, Bushel’s platform has grown rapidly, now powering more than 3,500 grain facilities across the U.S. and Canada with real-time business information for their producers. Monthly, 100,000 producers utilize Bushel products and services. Bushel is focused on bringing innovative software products and solutions to the agriculture industry.

GreenLight Biosciences is a mission-driven public-benefit corporation using the power of RNA to tackle some of humanitys greatest challenges, including pandemics, rare diseases, biodiversity and climate change.

Headquartered in Saint Paul, MN, Sentera’s mission is to deliver time-sensitive agricultural insights that optimize decisions and improve outcomes. Our integrated software, sensors, drones, and analytics products make it easy to integrate in-field data insights with the digital ag platforms in use by more than 80% of growers and their advisors in North America. FieldAgent® by Sentera delivers in-season data, analytics, and insights to thousands of customers and millions of acres of land throughout the world via web, mobile, desktop, and API connection. Growers, agronomists, seed retailers, and supply chain managers use insights from our platform to improve the precision, efficiency, and sustainability of their businesses. Sentera strives to build an indispensable platform for understanding the story of a field. To learn more about Sentera, visit us at sentera.com.

Pattern Ag uses predictive analytics to help farmers with input decisions such as crop protection, seed selection, and fertility needs. Pattern envisions a future where conventional agricultural inputs are enhanced and eventually replaced by precision microbiome engineering, improving farm productivity and sustainability.

We develop solutions to enhance global phosphorus use. Founded in April 2016 by Penn State graduates, Phospholutions has commercialized a patented technology called RhizoSorb to increase fertilizer efficiency.

Pivot Bio is one of the worlds leading innovative agtech companies, delivering farmers patented crop nutrition technologies.

Bushel is an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for farmers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies, headquartered in Fargo, N.D. Since launching in 2017, Bushel’s platform has grown rapidly, now powering more than 3,500 grain facilities across the U.S. and Canada with real-time business information for their producers. Monthly, 100,000 producers utilize Bushel products and services. Bushel is focused on bringing innovative software products and solutions to the agriculture industry.

Recent winner of the Green Chemistry award, Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. We are committed to providing growers with novel, effective chemistries that address proven targets. Our peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficials and the environment. Initially, Vestaron is focused on a class of peptides that kills insect pests efficiently, but is safe for humans, birds, fish, pollinators and the environment. As part of this, the company has developed a proprietary platform for peptide optimization and fermentation-based peptide production that will allow development of a wide variety of biologic crop protection solutions. Vestaron is proud to bring you the Power of Peptides through the SPEAR® brand family - providing new technology with a unique mode of action in a biological solution equal to, and often better, than the synthetic options; creating the opportunity to incorporate a new IRAC Group 32 into rotation recommendations for resistance management.