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How Ag-Tech Ripened Into a Growing Market

As the market grows for better farm data, VC firms are seeding new developments.
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This article is part of our Trends 2016 coverage.

With the rise of data-crunching agricultural software, farmers these days are digging as much in data as in dirt.

“It is as frothy as I have ever seen it,” Adrian Fortino says of the ag-tech software market. In 2012, as an investor with First Step Fund, Fortino invested in a seed round for FarmLogs,

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