For businesses at the forefront of their industries, artificial intelligence (AI) has become unavoidable. An unavoidable certainty, that is. That’s why, for the past five months, PYMNTS has been sitting down with different AI experts, innovators and entrepreneurs each week to get their thoughts on the...
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...
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...
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...
October 22, 2024
The only thing bigger than the agriculture sector’s contribution to daily sustenance could be its reliance on paper payments. In 2023, agriculture, food and related industries contributed a staggering $1.5 trillion to the U.S. GDP, representing about 5.6% of the total economy. Despite this major economic role, farmers — who contributed $203 billion to that […]
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,...
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 —...
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...
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 […]
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...
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...
