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MAPP participants plant seedlings during a project workday [Photo: UNT]
UNT’s Edible Campus: Where Ancient Farming Traditions Meet Urban Agriculture
by Lance Murray | Jul 3, 2025
The USDA-funded effort aims to turn unused campus spaces into agricultural classrooms and edible landscapes, while linking students to Denton’s food ecosystem.
by Lance Murray |
Jul 24, 2024
Farmers under the age of 35 make up just 9% of the U.S. farming industry. The Planting Pathways Initiative aims to change that with pilot programs that drive "sustainable, systemic industry change with the goal of creating more opportunities in agriculture."
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 4, 2024
Fort Worth-based BNSF is reshuffling its top executives, with Tom Williams stepping in as the new EVP and chief marketing officer in September, replacing Steve Bobb, who is retiring after 36 years. Additional promotions include key roles in transportation, service design, and intermodal marketing.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 6, 2023
It's national pasta month. The Texas mother, author, and philanthropist—married to Matthew McConaughey—has partnered with the Dallas-connected "better-for-you" pasta brand launched by Arcadia Biosciences. To entice families, it offers a "clean-plate guarantee."
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![Barnston Agtech showed off its swarm farming robotic driverless tractors at the Barnstorm R&D Center in a recent YouTube video. [Video screenshot]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Barnstorm-AgTech-Swarming-Robot-Tractors-940x436.jpg)
Barnston Agtech showed off its swarm farming robotic driverless tractors at the Barnstorm R&D Center in a recent YouTube video. [Video screenshot]
Robotic Agtech Startup Closes $217K Equity Raise for ‘Barnstorming’ Autonomous Tractor Swarms via Fort Worth’s Harvest Returns
by Lance Murray | Dec 28, 2022
Barnstorm Agtech, a Canadian startup developing driverless robotic tractors known as 'Barnstormers,' has closed on a $217,500 equity capital raise through Fort Worth-based Harvest Returns' investment platform.
The company, co-founded by a fourth-generation farmer and a robotics expert, plans to deploy 'swarms' of the tractors as a service to farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Canadian Prairies to address chronic labor scarcity and other "pain points" of traditional tractor systems.
The company, co-founded by a fourth-generation farmer and a robotics expert, plans to deploy 'swarms' of the tractors as a service to farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Canadian Prairies to address chronic labor scarcity and other "pain points" of traditional tractor systems.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 30, 2022
Frisco-based AgTech provider Ever.Ag announced that Dalex, a pioneer in animal nutrition technology, has joined its portfolio, expanding the company’s range of on-farm offerings for livestock and dairy producers....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 8, 2022
What companies are finding funding or having a big exit? From startup investments to grants and acquisitions, Dallas Innovates tracks what’s happening in North Texas money.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Jul 15, 2021
Parasanti Co-founders James Hancock and veteran Joshua Seagroves both had roots in ranching and farming, making the defense and ag solutions innovator a natural fit. Now the company is ready to continue growing, adding employees and customers, gaining traction in defense innovation, and launching new projects with the Air Force and oil and gas companies.
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Bravis Brown, CEO of Argyle-based BPS Technology
Water-Based Chemistry: North Texas Startup Invents Agriculture and Energy Solutions That Are Better for Business AND the Environment
by Quincy Preston | Mar 2, 2021
BPS Technology CEO Bravis Brown calls his company's chemical-mechanical technology "revolutionary."
Filing a dozen patents in 2020, the Argyle-based company is moving fast to protect and scale a "first-of-its-kind" innovation called SymMAX that can reduce the amount of chemicals needed by almost any industry. This year the focus is on commercialization.
Filing a dozen patents in 2020, the Argyle-based company is moving fast to protect and scale a "first-of-its-kind" innovation called SymMAX that can reduce the amount of chemicals needed by almost any industry. This year the focus is on commercialization.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 10, 2019
The fund will invest in agricultural businesses in economically disadvantaged regions of the nation, and will give investors tax-favorable risk-adjusted returns.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 8, 2019
You'll also find out about how UT Southwestern researchers are studying magnetic fields as an alternative treatment for patients with severe depression in this roundup of research and development activities in North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 27, 2018
Touch Titan's Kirk Ballou joined Dallas-based tech startup FLUX this month as chief technology officer and chief blockchain officer.
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![The South Island giant moa towered over New Zealand's forests for millions of years before becoming extinct within a century of Polynesian settlement around 1400 CE. Colossal Biosciences plans to resurrect the 500-pound birds using ancient DNA extracted from cave deposits and artificial egg technology. [Source image: Colossal Biosciences]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Colossal-Moa.jpg)
