STARTUP PROFILE - CSS: Firm Pioneers Use for Farm & Environment Benefit
by sthara Communications Manager, Western Growers
Posted on March 09, 2017 04:45 PM
While working on Wall Street, Dan Morash, who studied organic chemistry at Yale and is a Dartmouth M.B.A. graduate, spent a lot of time looking at the adaptive reuse of waste.
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STARTUP PROFILE - GeoVisual Using Imagery to Build a Better Crop
by sthara Communications Manager, Western Growers
Posted on March 09, 2017 04:38 PM
In several ways, Jeffrey Orrey, chief executive officer of GeoVisual Analytics, has been prepping for a business connection with agriculture for a long time. He grew up in California’s Castro Valley in the Bay Area and got his undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara. For years he was in close proximity to the fertile valleys that he is mapping today as a key element of the value proposition his company has identified for the agricultural industry.
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STARTUP PROFILE - Agralogics Turning Available Data into Accessible Insights
by sthara Communications Manager, Western Growers
Posted on March 09, 2017 04:34 PM
Though he grew up on a farm in the Punjab region in northern India, Sumer Johal, the CEO and founder of Agralogics, didn’t “connect the dots” between the role of information technology for global agriculture and the impact it could have in people’s lives until much later in his career. However, the MIT alumni, who earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the esteemed Cambridge, Massachusetts school, has always been strongly influenced by his family’s proud agriculture tradition.
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