Specialty crops have the potential to play a crucial role in addressing our climate challenges. At Carbon Friendly, we believe that regenerative farmers are the true carbon heroes, deserving recognition and rewards for their pivotal role in creating a climate-friendly food supply chain. This belief is at the heart of our mission and passion. Importantly, we have recently completed the site visits with the appointed international auditors for our Carbon Project with the Verra VCS program with the aim to have carbon credits issued for the first eight participants in the first half of 2025. This is a major milestone for farmers to be rewarded for implementing additional regenerative practices. Our carbon methodologies adhere to the highest global integrity standards, ensuring that farmers can effortlessly integrate into our well-established carbon group structures. For more information, please contact Francois Visser, our CEO, at francois@carbonfriendly.io / 831.917.3500, or Carbon Friendly’s Advisory Board Member, Mark Linder, at mark@carbonfriendly.io or 916.799.8345. Carbon Robotics launched its next-generation LaserWeeder™ G2 product line at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California, expanding its proven technology to more farms, crops, and budgets. Featuring a modular design with machine widths ranging from 6.6 to 60 feet, the LaserWeeder G2 makes precision weeding more accessible while reducing weed control costs by up to 80 percent. Operating up to twice as fast as its predecessor and considerably lighter, it eliminates the need for hand labor, herbicides, and mechanical cultivation. LaserWeeder G2 units are built at Carbon Robotics’ new state of the art manufacturing facility in Eastern Washington State. Powered by Carbon AI, the most advanced deep learning system for plant detection and identification, leveraging a dataset of over 40 million labeled plants from three continents. Backed by a recent $70 million Series D funding led by BOND and NVIDIA’s NVentures, Carbon Robotics is driving the future of farming by providing growers with profitable and sustainable solutions. Our Agtools Smart Contracts platform leverages its vast computational capabilities, trained on an unprecedented 700,000 unique phenological data points—the largest in the world—to analyze 50 years of weather patterns in key growing regions. This enables Agtools to provide unparalleled predictability in quality and quantity at distribution centers, as well as specific features, such as size and Brix, which are critical for every customer. Adapting to new administration, Agtools’ new Tariff Calculator allows users to compare local production against imported fresh products from other countries, providing a comprehensive view of the cost benefits of locally sourced versus globally sourced produce.
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