Animal AgTech Innovation Summit

Is your start-up on a mission to help farmers and ranchers improve animal welfare and advance technology solutions across beef, dairy and poultry production? Make the #AnimalAgTech Innovation Summit your first choice event to boost your innovation and investment journey in Dallas on April 8-9, 2025. Get ready to showcase your technology in our growing start-up exhibition, to spark new partnership discussions with influential stakeholders. Get in touch with Jasmine Baker for more details or fill out the form here: https://lnkd.in/dPKH74YV #startups #innovators #entrepreneurs #livestock #investment

Engaging Conversations Still Buzzing Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the #AnimalAgTech Innovation Summit in Amsterdam, organised by Rethink Events, where the theme was “One Health in Meat and Dairy.” While this was the primary focus, the conference covered a much broader range of critical issues, including compliance with the EU’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), improving farm animal health and nutrition through on-farm AI and precision farming, investment opportunities in the sector, carbon pricing, methane reduction strategies, and regenerative agriculture. I had the privilege of moderating a session on advancements in carbon, biodiversity, and water measurement technologies. Joining me were Conrad Young from Chirrup.ai and Pablo Modernel from FrieslandCampina, who provided insightful perspectives from both a technology provider and a user within the industry. At the Summit, the scope of topics and their intersection with societal interests—climate change, sustainability, biodiversity, and human welfare—demonstrated the vast and complex role that agriculture plays. Each issue presents unique challenges in terms of definition, measurement, verification, and balancing short-term goals with long-term sustainability, all while considering local contexts and spatial variability. It’s often said, and rightly so, that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. This necessitates careful prioritisation of actions, balancing urgency with impact, addressing trade-offs, and maximising co-benefits where possible. Our session took a practical approach, with Friesland Campina offering insights from a implementation and user’s perspective and Chirrup presenting the cutting-edge technologies that can demonstrate progress and aid decision making. But an important question remains—where does the farmer and the farm fit into this evolving landscape?  Recording and measurement needs to be autonomous, objective, digital and include contextual information; enabling farmers to farm and use the information to make informed decisions. It needs to be digital: not pen and paper. Farmers needs to be recognised financially for delivering societal and nature benefits that are not rewarded through commodity prices. Thanks to Mhairi Cameron and Rethink Events for the photos. Enormous thanks to Conrad and Pablo for being on the panel, and to Liam Littrup Jensen Sophie Ruffett for making it all happen.

Last week's inspiring session at the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit 🌾🐄🚀One key takeaway: It's time we flip the script on agricultural investment. Instead of asking, "How can we capture value?", we need to ask, "How can we add value to smallholder farmers?"This shift in perspective is crucial for creating real, sustainable impact. When we empower the backbone of our global food system - the smallholder farmers - we're not just improving lives, we're revolutionizing the entire agricultural ecosystem. Some Dimitra Technology to explore together : 📖 Knowledge transfer to boost productivity 🧑🌾 Fair pricing models that benefit farmers 💰 Innovative financing solutions Remember, sustainable agriculture isn't just about crops and livestock - it's about people. Let's invest in their potential and watch our industry thrive! Huge thanks to Animal AgTech Innovation Summit for providing this platform. And my fellow panelists Roel Messie, Donal Ryan, Marijn Hendrickx and our moderator Charles Crofton-Atkins (艾查理) Now, who's ready to turn these ideas into action? 💡👨🌾👩🌾#AgTech #SustainableAgriculture #FarmerFirst #InnovationInAction

Two micro-organisms – a bacterium and an algae – can be used together to convert carbon dioxide and methane into a protein-rich biomass. The novel process generates a biomass rich in protein. It is being explored as an animal feed ingredient, use for human nutrition, or to produced high-value nutraceuticals or pigments. “It would reduce our reliance on imported livestock feed, and decarbonise these industries, while also reducing the cost of carbon emissions for geothermal companies that adopt the system" says Steve Penno, Director of Investment Programmes at Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4f2VJWk

Teknik Koordinatörümüz Başat TÖMEK, Amsterdam'da düzenlenen Animal AgTech Innovation Summit etkinliğinde yeni girişimimiz (spin-off) MilkWinner Inc ve inovasyon ödüllü ürünümüz LAKTOWASH'ı tanıttı. 🏆💧 Sürdürülebilir bir tedarik zinciri oluşturma hedefimizi paylaştığımız bu güzel etkinliği düzenledikleri için Rethink ekibine teşekkür ederiz! 🙏🐄 #AnimalAgTech #Laktowash #Inovasyon #Sürdürülebilirlik

A great opportunity to discuss the road ahead, the choices to be made and the collaborations that are possible today at Animal AgTech Innovation Summit Many thanks for the opportunity to join you.

Really enjoyed the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit - it was a long awaited first visit for me, but it definitely won't be the last. Graeme McCracken and I were lucky enough to meet dozens of amazing #Agtech players, movers and shakers - from innovative startups like mOOvement to influential giants like Nestlé - and of course always a pleasure to spend time with our friends from AgTech Ireland, Alltech and TERRA NutriTECH

Thank you to Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Amsterdam for the invitation to Eggbase Ltd to contribute to the panel debate on regenerative agriculture. Tom Willings, Eggbase Director of Strategy & Partnerships gave his views from a poultry perspective. Overall an excellent 2-day conference with high quality networking and inspiring discussions.

Less than 5% of farms in the EU are over 100 hectares. But they represent over 50% of the farmed area of Europe. These farms have one foot in the family-farming tradition of environmental stewardship, and the other foot in the world of genomics, environmental sensing, and precision technologies. Following a compelling presentation from Mark Brooking on progress made by First Milk farmers in the UK, and a roundtable on biodiversity chaired by Barry Larkham-Jones, it was great to share the platform with Pablo Modernel one of the EU's leaders in ecological farm management, who showed how a Netherlands-based dairy business - FrieslandCampina - is balancing these two worlds. I talked about the Chirrup.ai mission to get 21st century biodiversity measurement tools into the hands of farming, so that we can collectively address the real challenges and opportunities, as well as some of the misinformation about livestock farming, with objective data. Thanks to Sam Hoste for expert chairing, to Mhairi Cameron for bringing One Health insights into the Chirrup development discussions and to Liam Littrup Jensen and colleagues for a well run two days. #regenerative #farming #agtech #biodiversity

Fantastic round up of some of the (43!) start-ups present at the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit last week ✨