Venture Investment In “Agriculture-Tech” Startups Reaches $2.06 Billion

In the first half of 2015, venture investment in “agriculture-tech” startups reached $2.06 billion, nearly surpassing the total for all of 2014. The rapid growth of data-driven farming, though a boon to productivity, will disproportionately benefit Big Ag—perhaps enabling it to recapture some of the profits it’s been losing to organic “neighborhood” far…