Bushel news and trends

World’s Newest Innovation Transforms Age-Old Industry of Agriculture
Artificial Intelligence // December 22, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the latest ground-breaking technologies in 2023.   Conversely, people have been breaking ground with agricultural techniques since civilizations began. As we head into 2024, might there be potentially game-changing synergies between humanity’s newest invention, AI, and one of its...

Modernizing the Core: How Working Capital Innovations Overcome Legacy Challenges
B2B Payments // September 15, 2023

Digital dynamics are reinventing the way businesses around the world operate. But in order to capture the efficiencies modern workflow solutions provide, firms often need to reinvent their own systems first. Many simply don’t want to, and it is holding them back. Firms shackled by...

Why CFOs Sit in the Middle of Effective Process Modernization
CFO // September 13, 2023

When CFOs can capture new efficiencies while lowering legacy costs, that’s an easy organizational win. Faced with ongoing macro headwinds, and despite a somewhat softening environment, today’s finance teams are increasingly reprioritizing their efforts away from a growth-at-all-costs mindset to a firmer focus on financial...

Farmers Are Pretty Digital; Their Buyers Are Really Not
Connected Economy // August 28, 2023

In the agricultural space, businesses have to be around long enough to matter. And that leaves firms pretty comfortable with the way they do — and have always done — business. “People might assume that it’s the farmer who is not part of the digital...

Interviews & Exclusives
World’s Newest Innovation Transforms Age-Old Industry of Agriculture

December 22, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the latest ground-breaking technologies in 2023.   Conversely, people have been breaking ground with agricultural techniques since civilizations began. As we head into 2024, might there be potentially game-changing synergies between humanity’s newest invention, AI, and one of its oldest industries, farming?  “If you look at the current situation […]

Farmers Are Pretty Digital; Their Buyers Are Really Not

August 28, 2023
In the agricultural space, businesses have to be around long enough to matter. And that leaves firms pretty comfortable with the way they do — and have always done —...

Bushel Launches Solution to Move $200B of Farmer Payments Digital

July 07, 2022
Think fast: what’s a $200 billion element of a $1 trillion domestic industrial sector still 90% dependent on paper checks? If you said “agriculture,” you win a pretend bushel of...

Quick Reads
Bushel Nets $26 Million to Expand Services to Ag Businesses

August 22, 2023
Bushel has completed a $26 million funding round to continue developing its digital platform that connects farmers and agribusinesses. The investment will be used to accelerate the digitization of agriculture, streamline processes, and expand services to ag businesses, the Fargo-based software company said in a Tuesday (Aug. 22) press release. The Bushel Network, which currently serves over […]

PYMNTS AM Radar: Live Commerce; Grocery Smackdown; Digitizing Agriculture; Payments as a Strategy; ICYMI

July 07, 2022
Today is Thursday, July 7 and the weekly jobless claims report and data on international trade come out this morning. Following scandal and criticism, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is...

Software Technology Firm Bushel Launches Farmer-Friendly Digital Payments

June 29, 2022
Bushel, an independent developer of software designed to facilitate digital transactions throughout the agricultural supply chain, announced the release of what it described as a “new digital payment network” on...