101 Best North Carolina Agriculture Companies and Startups

February 8, 2023
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This article showcases our top picks for the best North Carolina based Agriculture companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Agriculture industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top North Carolina Agriculture Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

EarthOptics

EarthOptics

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EarthOptics provides a cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

Pyxus

Pyxus

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Pyxus is a manufacturer and provider of agricultural products.

Pyxus

Pairwise Plants

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Pairwise is a purpose-driven food+tech company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables.

Pyxus

AgBiome

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AgBiome discovers and develops innovative biological and trait products for crop protection.

Pyxus

Vestaron

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Vestaron produces insecticides for agriculture, animal health, non-crop, and commercial pest control applications.

Pyxus

Soli Organic

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Soli Organic is an indoor farming startup that sells fresh organic culinary herbs.

Pyxus

Plant Response

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Plant Response is a plant technology firm that accelerates biological solutions to advance and restore the agricultural ecosystem.

Pyxus

Growers

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Growers develops a platform that helps ag retailers, advisors, and farmers to work better together.

Pyxus

Avalo

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Avalo is a plant biotech company using AI and evolution to make a more sustainable and resilient food system.

Pyxus

Harpe Bio

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Harpe Bio is a company that provides sustainable weed-management solutions for organic and industrial agriculture

Pyxus

Improved Nature

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Improved Nature is a plant-based company offering a delicious, sustainable, and high-quality meat substitute.

Pyxus

AGEYE

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AGEYE is an AI-platform for indoor farms and greenhouses that creates per-plant visibility and data collection at a commercial scale.

Pyxus

EnMass Energy

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EnMass Energy is a digital procurement and operations platform for global waste-to-energy supply chains.

Pyxus

CompostNow

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CompostNow collect food scraps from residents and businesses to help them reduce waste and support local gardens.

Pyxus

Phinite

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Phinite provides technology to transform manure into regenerative biofertilizer.

Pyxus

Foraged

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Etsy for Specialty Foods

Pyxus

Shepherd Farming

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Shepherd is a digital labor platform designed specifically for farms and agriculture operations.

Pyxus

Innatrix

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Innatrix is an agricultural biotechnology company developing novel biological and chemical products.

Pyxus

Greenfield Nitrogen

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Greenfield Nitrogen builds a regional ammonia plant through a grass-roots ownership model.

Pyxus

FarmShots

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FarmShots detects diseases, pests, and poor plant nutrition on farms by analyzing satellite and drone imagery.

Pyxus

International Agriculture Group

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International Agriculture Group produces innovative tropical ingredients for the natural products and food and beverage markets.

Pyxus

ScitoVation

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ScitoVation is a biotechnology company that provides technical expertise and technology on pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals.

Pyxus

Mirimichi Green Express

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Mirmichi Green is a premier developer of next-generation biotechnology for soil amendments, bio-stimulants, fertilizers, and pesticides.

Pyxus

Renaissance Fiber

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Renaissance Fiber is focusing on the production of high-quality fiber from industrial hemp.

Pyxus

TerMir

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TerMir is an innovative AgTech company that offers pioneering solutions to address key, unresolved agronomic and environmental challenges.

Pyxus

EvoAktiv Corp.

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Innovative BioAg and LifeTec Products

Pyxus

AgData

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AgData is a provider of strategic data and analytical solutions for crop and animal health industry clients.

Pyxus

Glean

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Glean is a food and beverage company that delivers healthy and fresh foods to its consumers.

Pyxus

Franny’s Distribution

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Franny’s Distribution is a CBD wholesaler and distributor that leverages vertical integration.

Pyxus

International Farming Corporation

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International Farming Corporation is an alternative investment firm that specializes in the agricultural sector.

Pyxus

Freshspire

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Freshspire is a mission-driven company based in Raleigh, NC dedicated to using strong technology to empower food communities.

Pyxus

Watauga Butchery

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Watauga Butchery is a custom meat processor that offers ground beef packaging.

Pyxus

Bloomify

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Bloomify is an e-commerce company that offers indoor carnivorous plants and orchids.

Pyxus

Arysta Life Science

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Arysta LifeScience is a platform specialty products company focused on helping its customers cultivate business growth.

Pyxus

Stemz

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Stemz is a built-to-work for floral creatives, flower farmers & retail clients.

Pyxus

Case Foods, Inc.

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Case Foods is a food production company specializing in poultry products.

Pyxus

PaperMulch

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PaperMulch is an agriculture company that develops sustainable materials to replace agricultural plastic mulch used in weed suppression.

Pyxus

Sankofa Farms

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Sankofa Farms is a multifaceted agricultural entity that seeks to assist in changing the food intake habits of those living in food deserts.

Pyxus

Plant Partners – Metrolina Greenhouses

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Plant Partners is a wholesale company that offers greenhouse plants and services.

Pyxus

Comer Industries

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Comer Industries is an agriculture and industrial business company located in Charlotte.

Pyxus

Bayer – Environmental Science Professional

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Bayer – Environmental Science Professional is specializing in offering environmental solutions to control pests.

Pyxus

North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services

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Provide services that promote and improve agriculture, agribusiness and forests; protect consumers and businesses; and conserve farmland.

Pyxus

Biscuitville FRESH SOUTHERN

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Biscuitville FRESH SOUTHERN is a restaurant that provides southern local food and hand-made biscuits.

Pyxus

TriEst Ag Group

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Triest Ag Group offers unsurpassed service, innovative products, and expertise to distributors and applicators of soil fumigation products.

Pyxus

Hampton Farms

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Hampton Farms is a food & beverages company that offers peanuts and nut butter.

Pyxus

CharGrow

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CharGrow manufactures and sells organic plant probiotics and biochar soil amendments that help growers to cut cost.

Pyxus

Atticus

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Atticus is an agricultural-products supplier that offers generic fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and pesticide products.

Pyxus

Carolina Foods, Inc.

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Carolina Foods is a food production company providing wholesale bakery products.

Pyxus

Tipper Tie

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The TIPPER TIE Group, a Dover company, is your global business partner and single source for processing, packaging and automation solutions.

Pyxus

Athenix

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Athenix is a crop science company focused on the areas of seeds, crop protection and non-agricultural pest control.

Pyxus

SonicAire

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SonicAire fan system prevents dust from settling in hard-to-reach areas, making it easier to keep your facility clean and safe.

Pyxus

Tiverton Advisors

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Tiverton Advisors is an agricultural asset manager managed by farmers and financiers.

Pyxus

Ensystex

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Ensystex is a pest control industry.

Pyxus

Eden Brothers

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Eden Brothers is an online store that provides flower bulbs, vegetables, herbs, wildflower and organic seeds.

Pyxus

PreGel AMERICA

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PreGel AMERICA is a food production company that manufactures authentic ingredients for gelato.

Pyxus

Syngenta

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Syngenta is an agriculture company that offers seeds, crop protection, seed treatments, and skills to attain food sustainability globally.

Pyxus

AgCarolina Farm Credit

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AgCarolina Farm Credit provides credit and financial services to Eastern North Carolina farmers, agri-businesses, and rural residents.

Pyxus

L&M Companies

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L&M Companies specializes in the production, packing, and supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Pyxus

The McGregor Company

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The McGregor Company specializes in research and technology, seed care and risk management in the agricultural sector.

Pyxus

Coleman Natural Foods

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Coleman Natural Foods, LLC provides organic and no-antibiotics-ever meat products.

Pyxus

Flavor 1st

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FLAVOR 1st grows and markets different varieties of produce such as tomatoes, corn and hothouse products to grocery and store chains.

Pyxus

GETSCO

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GETSCO is a private company that supplies agricultural chemicals, seeds, fertilizer products, site work, and construction materials.

Pyxus

Gb Biosciences Corp

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Syngenta is a company that operates in the Biotechnology industry.

Pyxus

Buy Sod

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Buy Sod specialize in providing high quality turf grass at an affordable price.

Pyxus

Mobile FarmWare

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Mobile FarmWare provides software for payroll, tracking, accounting, and pesticide tracking in the agriculture industry.

Pyxus

Carolinas Cotton Growers Cooperative

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Carolinas Cotton Growers Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative industry for cotton procedures.

Pyxus

Smith Turf & Irrigation

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Smith Turf & Irrigation is a wholesale company that provides turf equipment, irrigation, and outdoor lighting tools.

Pyxus

Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments

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Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments is an administrative platform that catalyzes regional progress.

Pyxus

AutoCopter Corp

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AutoCopters UAV RC helicopters provide remote sensing of multi-spectral images.

Pyxus

Mercator

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Mercator is a trading company that exports and imports agricultural products.

Pyxus

Crop Microclimate Management

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Crop Microclimate Management provides solutions to the problems of abiotic stress to growers.

Pyxus

Green biz nursery

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Green biz nursery provides services including residential landscaping, commercial landscaping, grounds management, and irrigation repair.

Pyxus

AgCareers

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AgCareers is supplier of Human Resources Services to Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology industry.

Pyxus

Hoffman Nursery

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Hoffman Nursery offers ornamental and native grasses liners to the wholesale horticultural trade.

Pyxus

Sipcam Agro

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Sipcam Agro provides charged plant protection solutions.

Pyxus

Agri-Technologies

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Agri-Technologies is an agriculture consulting company.

Pyxus

Clifton Seed Company

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Clifton Seed Company is a agriculture company located in Faison.

Pyxus

The Livestock Conservancy

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The Livestock Conservancy is an association that focuses on the conservation and preservation of endangered livestock and poultry breeds.

Pyxus

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

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Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is a sustainable agriculture organization that provides farming services.

Pyxus

Avazyme

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Avazyme is an agriculture and food testing solutions provider company.

Pyxus

Sink Farm Equipment

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Sink Farm Equipment is a supplier of agriculture machinery equipment.

Pyxus

Action Pest Exterminating

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Action Pest Exterminating is a pest management company that offers pest control and pest prevention services.

Pyxus

Elysian Fields Farm

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Elysian Fields Farm is a farm that provides vegetable distributing services.

Pyxus

Case Farms Chicken

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Case Farms is now a fully integrated poultry farming and processing group and one of the nation’s leading poultry producers.

Pyxus

Harvey’s Fertilizer & Gas

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Harvey Fertilizer & Gas provides agricultural products and services to growers.

Pyxus

Deal-Rite Feeds

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Deal-Rite Feeds specializes in manufacturing animal feed and offers lamb, dog, and chicken feed, germ oil, and flea and tick powder.

Pyxus

Wilson Engineering Services

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Wilson Engineering Services offers energy efficiency, project management and data automation services.

Pyxus

Farmtrade

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Farmtrade is an online marketplace for agricultural chemicals.

Pyxus

Ratoon Agroprocessing

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Ratoon Agroprocessing provides hemp product manufacturing services.

Pyxus

Excelsior Equity

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Excelsior Equity focuses on state-of-the-art manufacturing, distribution, and customer service for the agricultural and non-crop markets.

Pyxus

Ag TechInventures

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Ag TechInventures develops intellectual property to form new spin-off companies to address the unmet needs of the agricultural industry.

Pyxus

Meherrin Agricultural and Chemical Company

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Meherrin Agricultural and Chemical Company supply crop inputs, peanuts, and fertilizer to the farming, roasting and retail industries.

Pyxus

Scott Farms Inc

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Scott Farms Inc is a sixth-generation family farm growing sweet potatoes, tobacco, wheat, soybeans, corn, and peanuts.

Pyxus

Wake Stone

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Wake Stone offers solutions for commercial real estate development, construction, crushed stones and agricultural products.

Pyxus

Bottomley’s Evergreens & Farms

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Bottomley’s Evergreens & Farms is growing & delivering Christmas trees, evergreens, and pumpkins.

Pyxus

B&T Pest Control

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B&T Pest Control is the company that provides variety of pest control services.

Pyxus

P&S Business Financing

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P&S Business Financing is a financial service company.

Pyxus

Freshlist

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Freshlist is a food sourcing marketplace intended to connect chefs with local farms and producers for simplifying the supply chain.

Pyxus

Winston-Salem Fairgrounds

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Winston-Salem Fairgrounds is an entertainment company that plans, promotes, and produces annual events.

Pyxus

Fowler Crop Consulting

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Fowler Crop Consulting is an agriculture-based company that offers crop consulting, research, and nutrient management services.

Pyxus

Cyn-Mar

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Cyn-Mar is a wholesale florist company that provides flower products to event planners and retailers.

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