With the microbials segment supplanting digital agriculture as the hot subsector, these technologies will face the challenge of translating from the lab and greenhouse to the field. As is often the case in agtech, the “devil is in the data.” Can these companies prove their thesis and claims on yield and efficacy where it counts? Established players like Agricen...are getting in on the action. There is clearly also a roll-up opportunity for the plethora of new intellectual property being developed in this segment--which will likely drive additional investment activity in 2018.
