Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Maryland 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 Maryland Agriculture Startups
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Forever Oceans
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Forever Oceans is a food company that provides nutritious and delicious recipes straight from the ocean to their kitchen.
Manta Biofuel
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Manta Biofuel produces cost-effective renewable fuel oil from algae.
Silvec Biologics
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Silvec Biologics offers therapy for trees using RNA-based molecules.
Hudson Valley Harvest
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Hudson Valley Harvest provides a valuable service to regional producers in the Hudson Valley of New York.
Brassica Protection Products
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Brassica Protection Products are the result of research and development of nutritional ingredients.
The Earth Partners
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The Earth Partners offers compensatory mitigation in the form of mitigation banks and permittee responsible mitigation sites.
HoneyFlower Foods
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HoneyFlower Foods is a grab-and-go food company that supplies retail, grocery, and offices with wholesome prepackaged products.
Auxergen
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Auxergen is an agricultural biotechnology company that manufactures agricultural chemicals and biopesticides.
Plant Sensory Systems
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Plant Sensory Systems, LLC, an agricultural biotechnology company
AgriSmart
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AgriSmart develops a sustainable agriculture technology designed to cultivate crops and other food products.
Planet Found Energy Development
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Planet Found Energy Development focuses on developing manure management technologies.
CykloBurn Technologies
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CykloBurn Technologies offers a green technology solution to poultry farmers.
AUI Fine Foods (Albert Uster Imports)
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AUI Fine Foods is a food & beverages company offering dessert, savory, and beverage products.
DATUM LLC
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DATUM provides the first data governance and stewardship solution to visibly link the value of a data policy to its impact on the business.
Coastal Sunbelt Produce
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Coastal Sunbelt Produce is a wholesale company that offers fresh produces and dairy products.
Murry’s
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Murry’s is a food production company that produces frozen foods.
ABC Laboratories
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ABC Laboratories provides IND-enabling and lifecycle management of agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Catholic Relief Services
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Catholic Relief Services is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.
Mycoinnovation
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Mycoinnovation develops feed additives for the agricultural industry.
Farmers Restaurant Group
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Farmers Restaurant Group is a restaurant that sources natural farm products for American cuisine.
Kocide LLC
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Kocide is the U.S. leader in copper-based fungicide/bactericide products.
Skyward App Company
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Skyward App Company develops and integrates software, web, & mobile app for organizations.
6th Grain
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6th Grain is a digital agriculture technology company that transforms farmer-provided data into information.
Acidophil
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Acidophil, LLC is an innovation partnership whose goal is to create and develop technological solutions to areas of high unmet need.
J.J. McDonnell
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J.J. McDonnell is a seafood wholesale company that provides high quality seafood products and services.
Daily Express, Inc
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Daily Express is a transportation company that offers agricultural equipment, machinery, and wind energy products.
Naked Pizza
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NKD Pizza Our pizza is simply an honest diversity of whole food ingredients that taste better and are better for you.
Perdue Agribusiness
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Perdue Agribusiness provides agricultural products.
E-Livestock Global
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E-Livestock Global improves the livelihood of rural and commercial farmers by enabling cattle traceability.
Active Minerals International
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Active Minerals International is a mining & metals company specializing in mineral processing solutions and distribution services.
Culinary Services Group
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Culinary Services Group is a food & beverages company offering food and beverage management services.
American Cyanamid Company
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American Cyanamid Company was a U.S.-based diversified company with businesses in several fields.
East Coast Fresh
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East Coast Fresh provides fresh fruits and vegetables to Eastern seaboard residents with innovative recipes and friendly customer service.
Sea Watch International, Ltd.
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Sea Watch International is a food production company offering canned, frozen, and seafood.
Coastal Resources
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Coastal Resources offers wide variety of natural resources management services.
Wilkins Rogers Mills
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Wilkins Rogers Mills is a flour and corn meal milling company.
Grow & Fortify
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Grow & Fortify is a business consulting firm helping to build and sustain value-added agriculture start-ups and businesses.
MFA Incorporated
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MFA In corporated is a food production company that provides farm supply and marketing solutions.
AET Consulting
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AET Consulting is an advisory service firm in agronomics and environmental matters such as crop consulting and nutrient management.
American Farm Publications
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American Farm Publications provides article publications and newspapers related to the farming and agriculture industry.
IGENE Biotechnology,Inc
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Igene is into research, development, production, and commercialization of specialty ingredients for human and animal nutrition.
Lutheran World Relief
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LWR improves the lives of millions of smallholder farmers and their families.
Akehurst Landscape Service
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Akehurst provides landscape services, grounds maintenance, interior plants, and snow & ice management.
Catoctin Mtn Growers
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Catoctin Mtn Growers is a wholesale and retail distributor that offers a large selection of garden, house plants and other accessories.
DevWorks International
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DevWorks International specializes in natural resource management, sanitization, agriculture, and environmental services.
Organic Lawns
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Organic Lawns provides pesticide free and organic lawn care services.
Lancaster Foods, LLC
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Lancaster Foods is a food & beverages company that offers produce, organics, and fresh-cut products.
Advanced Biofuels USA
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Advanced Biofuels USA is an educational organization promotes biofuel usage.
Alice Ferguson Foundation
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Alice Ferguson Foundation is a Environmental Educational Organization.
MidAtlantic Farm Credit
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MidAtlantic Farm Credit is a financial services company that offers agricultural financing services in Virginia.
Babikow Greenhouses
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Babikow Greenhouses is a wholesale nursery that produces sustainable plants like ferns, perennials, annual flowers, climbers, and bamboo.
Windridge Farm
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Windridge Farm provides agriculture and vineyard services.
Grateful Gardeners
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Grateful gardeners is to inform the community about this and encourage a revival of the local flower supply chain.
AHPharma
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AHPharma is a research and development firm that offers services and products to the food animal industry.
Roseda Black Angus Farm
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Roseda Black Angus Farm is a seller of dry-aged beef.
Inside Out Services
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Inside Out Services provides exterior landscape maintenance, installations, landscape design, green roofs, snow and ice clearing.
Ecological Restoration and Management
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ER&M is a landscape construction firm specializing in environmental restoration, land management services, and commercial landscaping.
NASA Harvest
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NASA Harvest is a NASAs Food Security and Agriculture Program.
Cecil Soil Conservation District
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Cecil Soil Conservation District provides natural resources and agriculture services
Green Roof Plants
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Green Roof Plants is a Supplier of Plants.
Perdue
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Perdue offers a wide range of chicken products right from the farms along with recipes, cooking, and prepping tips.
Walnut Springs Nursery
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Walnut Springs Nursery is a grower and distributor of flowers.
Deer Run Farm
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Deer Run Farm provides chicken breeds, red angus cattle, and Berkshire pigs.
Farmers & Merchants Bank
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Farmers & Merchants Bank is a bank that offers community banking services in Carroll and Baltimore.
Baywater Farms
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Baywater Farms provides rainbow carrots, field lettuces, radish mixes, fall squash, and sweet potatoes.
Future Harvest
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Future Harvest provides education, networking, advocacy, and research to agriculture.
Bella Vita Farm
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Bella Vita Farm is an agriculture practice that provides retail and seasonal products and aquaponics that includes green vegetables.
Chesapeake Nurseries
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Chesapeake Nurseries is a farming company that produces abelia, azalea, berberis, Buxus and cephalataxus plants.
Rosedale Animal Hospital
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Rosedale Animal Hospital is a animal veterinary hospital providing comprehensive medical, surgical and dental care.
Passion of Hope International
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Passion of Hope International is an organization that lifts and empowers communities towards resilience in food sovereignty and education.
Maryland Plants & Supplies
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Maryland Plants & Supplies is a plants and horticultural products supplier.
Rocklands Farm Winery
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Rocklands Farm Winery produces farm wines, meats and recipes, and sells in on farm markets as well as on online platform.
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization that supports literacy and education in the agriculture sector.
Johnson Hydro Seeding
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Johnson Hydro Seeding is a lawn installation company.
Lakenheath Electronics Design
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Lakenheath Electronics Design will help you define, design, develop, and deploy your embedded systems products.
Larriland Farm
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Larriland Farm offers to pick their own fruits and vegetables and to farm market at Larriland Farm.
Marbidco
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MARBIDCO is an agriculture company that works cooperatively with commercial banks and Farm Credit Associations and local government agencies
Baltimore Free Farm
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Baltimore Free Farm is an gardener and activist that provides access to healthy food for all.
Farmers Cooperative Association
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Farmers Cooperative Association provides feed, fertilizer, and petroleum products.
Pete Pappas & Sons
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Pete Pappas & Sons is a manufacturer and distributor of produce.
Spring Garden Farm
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Spring Garden Farm produces and supplies mulch.
Patriot Natural Resources
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Patriot Natural Resources provides wildlife management, forestry, ecological, environmental, and agricultural services.
Still Creek Vineyards
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Still Creek Vineyards is a farming and agriculture company that specializes in the production and supply of wine from the winery.
Clinton Community Nature Center
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Clinton Community Nature Center is a non-profit organization that offers native nature plants, donations, and sales services.
Quantico Creek Sod Farms
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4,000+ acre farm selling warm and cool season grasses
True Chesapeake Oyester
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They say wonderful, delicious things come in small shells. Boy, do we have a treat for you.
Milburn Orchards
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Milburn Orchards provides high-quality farm-fresh fruits and vegetables.
Honeygo Animal Hospital Inc
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Honeygo is a veterinary care hospital.
Genesis Biotechnologies
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Genesis Biotechnologies provides products and services to scientists while making new discoveries.
Carroll Tree Service
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Carroll Tree Service provides Hazardous Removals, Tree Preservation, Plant Health Care, and Aesthetic Pruning.
One Straw Farm
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One Straw Farm is a farming community that produces organic agricultural products and sells them to restaurants and farmer’s markets.
Nagel Farm Service
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Nagel Farm Service is a farming company that sells crop insurance integrated with marketing strategies and consulting to benefit farmers.
Surany Research & Development
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Surany Research & Development is a diverse firm that helps engineering and businesses by providing innovative and strategic solutions.
