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With tough times for farms, agtech adoption is no easy task. But at a new UNL conference in Gothenburg, startups and farmers see potential
The Spur AgConverge event served as a launch event for Spur Ventures, a new entrepreneurship hub to better connect producers with innovation. In centering farmers, the event dug deeper into the…
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