Let's Talk About Jobs in Food and Ag!
USDA NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy discusses labor challenges and workforce needs for food and ag.
Mapping The AgTech Adoption Curve
The Mixing Bowl team recently sat down with Ryan Rakestraw, Venture Principal at Monsanto Growth Ventures, to talk about where we are in AgTech adoption.
Why We Need An Internet Of Food
In preparation for the Inaugural IC-FOODS conference, which will take place November 7-9 at UC Davis, The Mixing Bowl’s Rob Trice and Krista Holobar talked with Matthew Lange, the Principal…
Is AgTech Ready For Consolidation?
The AgTech Landscape has continued to expand but what happens if VC funding cools in the space?
Welcome Seana Day
We are quite pleased to announce that Seana Day has joined The Mixing Bowl team as a Partner. Seana brings to The Mixing Bowl over twelve years of investment, M&A…
A Taste from FOOD IT: Solution Harvest
FOOD IT: Solution Harvest; challenges, solutions, design thinking and innovation from all around. On July 12th, 2016 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, representatives spanning the food, agriculture…
Food Funded 2016
On May 5th The Mixing Bowl and Slow Money Northern California hosted the second annual Food Funded event. The goal of the event was, not surprisingly given the name, to…
Double Mixed: Thoughts from a two-year old
This week I ran across our blog post “Mixed Up for One Year Now” that I wrote around this time in 2015 when the Mixing Bowl turned one. Now, having…
HACKING IN DAVIS FOR FOOD, AG & HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Last week the Mixing Bowl– in conjunction with Apps for Ag and the UC Davis World Food Center and Innovation Institute for Food & Health — held a multi-day event…
Nine Billion Food Events by 2050?
California may very well be leading the way to achieving the goal of nine billion for events by 2050! Just last week, we had the Latino Farmer Conference, the California Food &…
12/2-3 UC Davis Solutions Summit: Bridging Ideas to Action
We at the Mixing Bowl have made a sizable time investment over the last couple months helping UC Davis launch new initiatives that move more of its academic research and…