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THE CHICAGO EDITION 2026

Chicago’s
food and agriculture industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping food and agriculture in Chicago. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

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MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Chicago’s food and agriculture leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Food and Agriculture company highlights in Chicago, snapshot 1 September 2026
Company
Mondelez Internationalmondelezinternational.com$1.51B12 roles6$38.54BFYFY2025 filing
waterdropwaterdrop.com$187.09M—350—
Cresco Labscrescolabs.com$104M—2—
Farmer\'s Fridgefarmersfridge.com$87.23M—212—
Protein Bartheproteinbar.com$49.14M—250—
Wicked Kitchenwickedkitchen.com$35.09M—36—
Heaven\'s Doorheavensdoor.com$33.79M—38—
Hausdrink.haus$21.5M—9—
Conagra Brandsconagrabrands.com—10 roles18,600$11.61BFYFY2025 filing
Hyde Park Hospitality, LLChph-us.com—10 roles600—
Kellanovakellanova.com—10 roles——
Morton Saltmortonsalt.com—10 roles3,000—
Mérieux NutriSciencesmerieuxnutrisciences.com—10 roles1,098—
Fairlifefairlife.com—9 roles1—
Newly Weds Foodsnewlywedsfoods.com—9 roles16—
ADMadm.com——750—
Blommerblommer.com——901—
Boka Restaurant Groupbokagrp.com——1,512—
Buonabuona.com——571—
Double Gooddoublegood.com——61—
Ferraraferrara.com——3,283—
John Bean Technologiesjbtc.com——7,200$3.8BFYFY2025 filing
Lifeway Foodslifewaykefir.com——291Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Tootsie Rolltootsie.com——2,300$732.52MFYFY2025 filing
24 featured companies

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Food and Agriculture industry KPIs in Chicago

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

1 September 2026
Hiring participation9.6%

57 of 592 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation16.0%

95 of 592 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share77.6%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$1.36M

Midpoint of 110 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 77.6% of disclosed capital, while 84.0% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Chicago food and agriculture has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Chicago food and agriculture
$0$479.14M$958.28M$1.44B$1.92B2016: $8.76M20162017: $34.27M20172018: $1.68B20182019: $22.45M20192020: $51.13M20202021: $31.92M20212022: $127.05M20222023: $22.37M20232024: $16.36M20242025: $28.58M2025
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Annual food and agriculture funding and company formation in Chicago
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$8.76M257
2017$34.27M1713
2018$1.68B2912
2019$22.45M229
2020$51.13M209
2021$31.92M205
2022$127.05M1616
2023$22.37M137
2024$16.36M37
2025$28.58M17
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Mondelez International65.1%
  • waterdrop8.1%
  • Cresco Labs4.5%
  • Other companies22.4%

Funding by stage

139 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel64 46.0%
Series A–B32 23.0%
Series C+ / PE9 6.5%
Grants, debt & other34 24.5%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
3 rounds

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Series C05/2026
waterdrop $117.09M

Backed by Atlantic Grupa and Aspeya and others.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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Series A08/2022
Hausdrink.haus$17M

Backed by Casey Neistat and Jen Rubio and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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USD · millions · consolidated

Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.

FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 4 reporting entities from 7 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts—

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Chicago market sales.

Net profit / loss—

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin—

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue—

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities—

None of 4 covered entities.

Top-five concentration—

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2025 · 4 reporting entities

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CHICAGO · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does food and agriculture compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.

The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.

Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Chicago companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

10 of the 592 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (1.7%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 192,172 visits.

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

27 of these companies (4.6%) publish at least one Android app — 34 apps in all, carrying 4.3M installs between them.

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2026Q1).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Food Distributors41.4Mampm 1.4M
Food Service Chains131.4MPotbelly Sandwich Works 937.8K
Food & Beverage Products131.2MDouble Good 647.8K
Animal Feed And Nutrition526.6KADM Truck Logistics 16.1K
Food Processing26.8KKellanova Ethics Line 5K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 12023Q2: 02023Q22023Q4: 12023Q4: 02023Q42024Q1: 12024Q1: 02024Q12024Q3: 12024Q3: 02024Q32025Q1: 12025Q1: 02025Q12025Q2: 12025Q2: 12025Q22025Q3: 32025Q3: 22025Q32025Q4: 12025Q4: 52025Q42026Q1: 12026Q1: 82026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 34 of 34 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Chicago food and agriculture market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Internet first brands31
Consumer digital15
B2c e-commerce11
Plant based foods11
Uber for grocery delivery8
B2c grocery delivery8
Inc 50008

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Internet first brands

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

31companies
3.2%have hiring activity

1 companies hiring · $89.44M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

E-commerce - product376
Physical commerce239
Fee-for-service70
Advertising70
E-commerce - service67
Commission on transaction64
Sponsorship14
Subscription10
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsfindfamiliarspirits.com ↗

Through the RTO, the Company would have acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of FFS in exchange for Pond share consideration, resulting in the reverse takeover of the Company by FFS shareholders.

Funding roundscoco5.com ↗

CHICAGO — Coco5 has raised $10 million in a recent funding round that was led by Loop Capital.

Mergers & acquisitionslifewaykefir.com ↗

In 2024, Danone tabled $283m and $307m to acquire the outstanding shares in the company – including those of the CEO’s estranged relatives and shareholders, Edward and Ludmila Smolyansky – but was turned down.

Mergers & acquisitionsatomic-brands.com ↗

Molson Coors Beverage Company has completed its acquisition of Atomic Brands Inc., the maker of Monaco Cocktails, formally adding the brand to its U.S. Beyond Beer portfolio and positioning itself among the top five suppliers in the ready-to-drink cocktail segment.

Mergers & acquisitionshalfacrebeer.com ↗

Two of Chicago’s largest craft breweries are merging to create a new, “yet-to-be-named” beverage company, the businesses announced Tuesday.

Mergers & acquisitionsvitaminisbrand.com ↗

Vitaminis, the clean-label functional juice shot company focused on delivering nutrient-dense, food-first wellness for families, today announced the acquisition of the premium domain vitaminis.com.

Mergers & acquisitionsmerieuxnutrisciences.com ↗

Mérieux NutriSciences, a world leader in food safety, quality, and sustainability has acquired Zínia Ensaios Laboratoriais, a food testing laboratory based in southern Brazil.

Mergers & acquisitionsconagrabrands.com ↗

Thompson, Siegel, and Walmsley (TSW) bought an additional 2,334,081 shares of Conagra Brands during the third quarter.

Mergers & acquisitionsferrarausa.com ↗

European investment group Eurazeo has completed the sale of its French confectionery and chocolate company, CPK Group, to Ferrara Candy Company – a transaction first announced in July 2025.

Mergers & acquisitionsmondelezinternational.com ↗

The Mennel Milling Co. has completed the acquisition of the Toledo, Ohio, flour mill of Mondelez International, Inc., Mennel announced on Nov. 3.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 979 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
228
Leadership moves
204
Company announcements
186
Mergers & acquisitions
143
Asset acquisitions
58
New products
35
Contracts
28
Capital infusions
23
Lawsuit
18
Regulatory
18
7 activity cards

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IPO pipeline

1 companies with recorded IPO activity

Follow-on Offering · New York Stock Exchange1 reports

Leadership moves

26 tracked people moves

Alan Reed

Retirement Previously Founding Leader of Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network

Mariam Parker

Appointment Executive Director of Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network

Sean Connolly

Resignation Previously Chief Executive Officer

John Brase

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Luca Zaramella

Appointment Chief Operating Officer

Michelle Lorge

Appointment President

Katlin Smith

Resignation Adviser

John Brose

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Regulatory events

17 recorded events

fined for hindering cross-border tradeEuropean Commission

ADM ↗

civil penalty settlementU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

pending regulatory approval

ADM ↗

approved the purchase of Elstar OilsPolish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection

Litigation

13 tracked suits

Company
Securities and Exchange Commission v Archer Daniels Midland

fraud allegations related to profit margin inflationRegulatory · Settled

Company
Citizens of California v coca-cola, conagra brands, general mills, kellogg, kraft hei

Public nuisance and unfair competition law violation related to ultra-processed foodsCivil · Filed

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

13companies
361period observations
1.8%median reported growth

Median across 235 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
pond technologies→Find Familiar Spirits ↗Terminated2026-04-24Not stated in snapshot
Mondelez International→HersheyRumored2026-04-15Not stated in snapshot
danone→Lifeway Foods ↗Announced2026-04-11Not stated in snapshot
molson coors→Atomic Brands ↗Completed2026-04-02Not stated in snapshot
pepsico→Quaker Oats ↗2026-04-02$13.4B
pepsico→Tropicana ↗2026-04-02$3.3B

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

2,739 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 4,037-posting snapshot covers 93 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Full Time Nabisco Merchandiser/Order Writer146
Group Fitness Instructor143
Full Time Nabisco Merchandiser/Order Writer127
Client Success Associate (Entry Level, Remote)97
Client Success Expert (Remote)84
Chief Financial Officer (Cfo)80
0 internship postings

286 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

1,166 postings specify a level.

unspecified
2,871
manager
647
senior
214
entry
144
lead
115
intern
46

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 4,037 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Excel
19
Ipad Tablet
15
Power Bi
11
Word
11
Sql
11
Math
10
Microsoft Office
10
Pallet Jack
10
Cash Register
8
Inventory Management
8
ADVERTISED PAY$56.3K/ year

Median across 368 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$76.2K/ year102 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

194 founders and chief executives across 157 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

20 profiles with education records.

Booth School of Business
5
Kellogg School of Management
4
University of Chicago
4
Harvard Business School
3
Columbia University
3
Harvard University
2
Imperial College London
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1

Prior employers

5 profiles with prior-work records.

McKinsey
2
Bain
1
Boston Consulting Group
1
Amazon
1
Uber
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

14,804 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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14,804articles in the measured year
3,020articles in 2026Q1
73.2%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chicago · articles per complete quarter

03,0926,1859,27712,3692021Q2: 3,2822021Q22021Q3: 3,3672021Q4: 2,7022022Q1: 3,4162022Q2: 3,5502022Q22022Q3: 2,8962022Q4: 2,7002023Q1: 2,8062023Q2: 3,5752023Q22023Q3: 3,1022023Q4: 3,2042024Q1: 4,6872024Q2: 3,9272024Q22024Q3: 4,4472024Q4: 3,4592025Q1: 10,7562025Q2: 3,1802025Q22025Q3: 5,3032025Q4: 3,2752026Q1: 3,0202026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q23,282
2021Q33,367
2021Q42,702
2022Q13,416
2022Q23,550
2022Q32,896
2022Q42,700
2023Q12,806
2023Q23,575
2023Q33,102
2023Q43,204
2024Q14,687
2024Q23,927
2024Q34,447
2024Q43,459
2025Q110,756
2025Q23,180
2025Q35,303
2025Q43,275
2026Q13,020

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
6,892 positive · 64 neutral · 2,954 negative
2022
8,498 positive · 96 neutral · 3,947 negative
2023
9,154 positive · 68 neutral · 3,436 negative
2024
11,537 positive · 86 neutral · 4,871 negative
2025
16,448 positive · 119 neutral · 5,897 negative

Leading coverage topics

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chicago · ranked by full-period article count.

Formula One Championships16,705 articles in the full recorded period
3,112 recent · 4,105 prior
Executive Leadership Changes And Appointments16,639 articles in the full recorded period
3,837 recent · 4,466 prior
College Athletics News14,424 articles in the full recorded period
4,357 recent · 2,567 prior
New Product Launches And Innovations14,091 articles in the full recorded period
3,573 recent · 3,297 prior
Homelessness Prevention Programs13,199 articles in the full recorded period
2,950 recent · 2,770 prior
Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) Programs12,090 articles in the full recorded period
2,456 recent · 2,924 prior
Strategic Partnerships And Collaborations11,922 articles in the full recorded period
3,108 recent · 2,709 prior
Rural Community Development Programs11,129 articles in the full recorded period
2,635 recent · 2,321 prior
Seafood Sourcing And Aquaculture11,071 articles in the full recorded period
3,559 recent · 2,937 prior
Seafood And Shellfish Categories10,698 articles in the full recorded period
3,736 recent · 2,680 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

United States comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
shrimp aquaculture1,46998050%
land-frozen seafood1,37879074%
shrimp harvest1,13264376%
shrimp1,12668664%
college playoffs1,02966655%
ceo change1,02969049%
crab availability96364849%
fresh shellfish90858356%
tuna steak90253967%
flash-frozen seafood89448385%
f1 world championship1,9723,224-39%
f1 championship1,8632,930-36%
poultry health8042,053-61%
wildlife disease monitoring3771,952-81%
h5n1 avian influenza3561,818-80%

Event and signal lenses

United States comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

418,778 classified articles

food rescue donations, meal distribution funding, emergency food aid

34.1% critical · 38.3% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

135,040 classified articles

food rescue donations, meal distribution funding, hunger assistance programs

31.3% critical · 47.8% positive
Rising

Growth

163,836 classified articles

whole-farm revenue policies, earnings report, stock performance

22.1% critical · 48.5% positive

Food and Agriculture coverage tagged Chicago. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

RESEARCH SIGNALS

What Food and Agriculture research is working on

652 papers in the recorded india scope.

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652papers
8,585worldwide comparison pool
652India-affiliated papers

Research orientation

Promising
234
Problem-identifying
129
Descriptive
110
Breakthrough
103
Cautionary
47
Comparative
19
Critical
10

Contribution mix

Empirical
286
Methods-led
221
Reviews
101
Position pieces
40
Theoretical
4

Tone counts: 584 positive · 34 neutral · 34 negative.

Common problems researchers identify
139 papers · 21.3% of this field
  • Agriculture119 papers
  • Food security32 papers
  • Climate change21 papers
  • Robotics11 papers
  • Productivity10 papers
  • Sustainability8 papers
  • Internet of Things8 papers
  • Livelihood8 papers

Landmark: Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for?

Cautions
47 papers · 7.2% of this field
  • Agriculture26 papers
  • Climate change8 papers
  • Natural resource economics5 papers
  • Weed5 papers
  • Food security5 papers
  • Tillage4 papers
  • Productivity4 papers
  • Psychological intervention3 papers

Landmark: An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries

Opportunities
337 papers · 51.7% of this field
  • Agriculture198 papers
  • Robot44 papers
  • Internet of Things31 papers
  • Precision agriculture27 papers
  • Climate change21 papers
  • Productivity16 papers
  • Cloud computing14 papers
  • Agroforestry14 papers

Landmark: Responses of soil carbon sequestration to climate‐smart agriculture practices: A meta‐analysis

Leading institutions

International Food Policy Research Institute
1,024
University of Kentucky
809
Colorado State University
585
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
527
Agricultural Research Service
525
Georgia Institute of Technology
503

Leading researchers

Leslie Lipper
635
Andrea Cattaneo
568
Wei Ren
476
Xiongxiong Bai
470
Yawen Huang
470
Mark S. Coyne
470
Pierre-André Jacinthe
470
Solomon Asfaw
389

Highly cited breakthrough-labelled papers

  • The Robotanist: A ground-based agricultural robot for high-throughput crop phenotyping151 citations
  • Self-Powered Sensing for Smart Agriculture by Electromagnetic–Triboelectric Hybrid Generator141 citations
  • sCrop: A Novel Device for Sustainable Automatic Disease Prediction, Crop Selection, and Irrigation in Internet-of-Agro-Things for Smart Agriculture130 citations
  • Blockchain-Based Cloud-Enabled Security Monitoring Using Internet of Things in Smart Agriculture111 citations
  • Renewable Energy Integration Into Cloud & IoT-Based Smart Agriculture110 citations

Common problems researchers identify

125 papers · 4 recurring themes
4 cards

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Climate Change / AgricultureCommon problems researchers identify · 01

Climate Change / Agriculture

43 papers

34.4% of this theme group

Climate change (20) · Agriculture (43) · Food security (17) · Government (6)

Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview

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YearShare index
20222087.7
20232154.4
20242121.1
20252354.5
Robotics / AgricultureCommon problems researchers identify · 02

Robotics / Agriculture

37 papers

29.6% of this theme group

Robotics (10) · Agriculture (32) · Robot (6) · Internet of Things (6)

Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications

Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) for smart agriculture: A review of architectures, technologies and solutions

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20221344.5
20231371.8
20241420.2
20251404.4
Agriculture / Economic GrowthCommon problems researchers identify · 03

Agriculture / Economic Growth

29 papers

23.2% of this theme group

Agriculture (27) · Economic growth (3) · Agricultural economics (4) · Public economics (2)

Agricultural Technology in Africa

Agricultural Technology Choice and Transport

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2022819.3
2023801.0
2024650.4
2025375.5
Agricultural Science / Nutrient ManagementCommon problems researchers identify · 04

Agricultural Science / Nutrient Management

16 papers

12.8% of this theme group

Agricultural science (4) · Nutrient management (2) · Nutrient (2) · Agronomy (2)

Meta-analysis of the effects of on-farm management strategies on milk yields of dairy cattle on smallholder farms in the Tropics

An overview of organic, grassfed dairy farm management and factors related to higher milk production

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YearShare index
2022389.6
2023372.3
2024270.2
2025197.4

Cautions

44 papers · 4 recurring themes
4 cards

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Climate Change / AgricultureCautions · 01

Climate Change / Agriculture

16 papers

36.4% of this theme group

Climate change (8) · Agriculture (13) · Sustainability (3) · Greenhouse gas (3)

A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debat

Climate smart agriculture and global food-crop production

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YearShare index
20222330.1
20232430.6
20242427.5
20252687.8
Agriculture / Agricultural EconomicsCautions · 02

Agriculture / Agricultural Economics

14 papers

31.8% of this theme group

Agriculture (11) · Agricultural economics (4) · Diversification (2) · Developing country (2)

An Assessment of Experimental Evidence on Agricultural Technology Adoption in Developing Countries

The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda

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YearShare index
2022392.7
2023376.2
2024353.1
2025221.7
Mixed themeCautions · 03

Mixed theme

8 papers

18.2% of this theme group

Relationship between farm management strategies, reticuloruminal pH variations, and risks of subacute ruminal acidosis

Farm management practices associated with influenza A virus contamination of people working in Midwestern United States swine farms

Ecology / Food SecurityCautions · 04

Ecology / Food Security

6 papers

13.6% of this theme group

Ecology (2) · Food security (2) · Agriculture (3)

Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda

Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture

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YearShare index
20221722.6
20231724.9
20241524.1
20251119.1

Opportunities

312 papers · 6 recurring themes
6 cards

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Agriculture / Precision AgricultureOpportunities · 01

Agriculture / Precision Agriculture

95 papers

30.4% of this theme group

Agriculture (53) · Precision agriculture (16) · Intrusion detection system (5) · Archaeology (5)

Smart Agriculture Revolution: Edge AI for Precision Farming on Low-Power Embedded Systems

Smart Agriculture System for Soil Analysis and Crop Suggestion using AI Techniques

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YearShare index
2022369.9
2023372.1
2024472.5
2025393.8
Climate Change / AgricultureOpportunities · 02

Climate Change / Agriculture

55 papers

17.6% of this theme group

Climate change (18) · Agriculture (46) · Agroforestry (13) · Tillage (7)

Adapting agriculture to climate change: institutional determinants of adoption of climate-smart agriculture among smallholder farmers in Ken

Climate-smart agriculture: Greenhouse gas mitigation in climate-smart villages of Ghana

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YearShare index
20222223.0
20232259.9
20242327.9
20252386.7
Robot / Mobile RobotOpportunities · 03

Robot / Mobile Robot

55 papers

17.6% of this theme group

Robot (36) · Mobile robot (7) · Robotics (8) · Agriculture (25)

Vision‐based Obstacle Detection and Navigation for an Agricultural Robot

Smart Multipurpose Agricultural Robot

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YearShare index
2022827.0
2023847.9
2024840.1
2025849.0
Internet Of Things / AgricultureOpportunities · 04

Internet Of Things / Agriculture

51 papers

16.3% of this theme group

Internet of Things (27) · Agriculture (35) · Cloud computing (10) · Wireless (6)

Smart Agriculture Based on IoT and Cloud Computing

Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Machine Learning Models for Efficient Monitoring of Smart Agriculture

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YearShare index
20221136.6
20231111.1
20241090.0
20251158.5
Agricultural Economics / AgricultureOpportunities · 05

Agricultural Economics / Agriculture

29 papers

9.3% of this theme group

Agricultural economics (8) · Agriculture (23) · Welfare (3) · Agricultural machinery (3)

Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania

Subsidies for Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Improved Grain Storage Bags in Uganda

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YearShare index
2022399.5
2023382.4
2024359.2
2025243.2
Herd / FlockOpportunities · 06

Herd / Flock

27 papers

8.7% of this theme group

Herd (3) · Flock (3) · Biosecurity (3) · Pollinator (3)

Farm Management, Environment, and Weather Factors Jointly Affect the Probability of Spinach Contamination by Generic Escherichia coli at the

Using farm management practices to predict Campylobacter prevalence in pastured poultry farms

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202218.3
202318.0
202412.9
202514.8

How this field compares with the research baseline

Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.

Research orientationThis fieldReference sample
Promising35.9%37.0%
Problem-identifying19.8%10.0%
Descriptive16.9%17.0%
Breakthrough15.8%26.8%
Cautionary7.2%4.3%
Comparative2.9%4.0%
Critical1.5%1.0%

Concerns receiving less research attention

Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.

Concern / example paperPapersShareRaised as a problemWorldwide share
Privacy & surveillanceThe State and Future of Smart Agriculture: Insights from mining social media61.01%2 (33.3%)1.19%
Labour & data workThe Impact of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology50.84%2 (40.0%)0.21%
Energy & datacenter footprint00.0%0 (%)0.12%
Water use00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Carbon & emissions of compute00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Hardware, e-waste & supply chain00.0%0 (%)0.04%
Safety & misuse00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Bias & fairness00.0%0 (%)0.04%
Concentration of compute power00.0%0 (%)0.01%

Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.

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