Throughout history, new technologies have transformed agricultural productivity with bursts of innovation.
Key & Company works with companies that want to maximize the value of their proprietary technologies.
Food
Technologies offer new opportunities to improve the quality and safety of our food supply. These include:
- Identity preservation systems from field to final use so consumers may be assured of the origins of what they eat.
- Internet technologies that offer food companies more efficient procurement systems and distribution systems.
- Bio-engineered foods (recognizing the raging controversies) that deliver specific vitamins and proteins in preventing malnutrition
- Testing and detection systems for trace contaminants
Agriculture
Key & Company believes there will be many innovations that will give new competitive opportunities to agribusiness companies, including:
- Transgenic plant and animal systems that provide proteins and products for human health.
- Wireless devices that retrieve and transmit production information from growing crops through geosynchronous satellite systems.
- Information technologies which connect consumer demand more quickly to on farm production decisions.
- New systems which allow for sustainable production systems
- Improved bio-energy materials from cellulosic sources (corn stover, shrub willow and wheat straw)