Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best North Carolina based Farming companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Farming 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 Farming Startups
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Pyxus
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Pyxus is a manufacturer and provider of agricultural products.
Vestaron
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Vestaron produces insecticides for agriculture, animal health, non-crop, and commercial pest control applications.
Soli Organic
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Soli Organic is an indoor farming startup that sells fresh organic culinary herbs.
Growers
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Growers develops a platform that helps ag retailers, advisors, and farmers to work better together.
Agerpoint
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Agerpoint® is an innovator in geospatial intelligence that develops technologies to digitize, analyze and comprehend natural environments
Harpe Bio
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Harpe Bio is a company that provides sustainable weed-management solutions for organic and industrial agriculture
Phinite
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Phinite provides technology to transform manure into regenerative biofertilizer.
Shepherd Farming
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Shepherd is a digital labor platform designed specifically for farms and agriculture operations.
Greenfield Nitrogen
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Greenfield Nitrogen builds a regional ammonia plant through a grass-roots ownership model.
Renaissance Fiber
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Renaissance Fiber is focusing on the production of high-quality fiber from industrial hemp.
Your Local Greens
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Their indoor farms create the ideal conditions for growing the purest produce imaginable. leafimg.
WH Farms
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WH Farms is a black woman-owned hemp cultivation business.
International Farming Corporation
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International Farming Corporation is an alternative investment firm that specializes in the agricultural sector.
Bloomify
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Bloomify is an e-commerce company that offers indoor carnivorous plants and orchids.
Stemz
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Stemz is a built-to-work for floral creatives, flower farmers & retail clients.
Canine Harvest
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Canine Harvest is a pet service company that offers farm-fresh foods for dogs.
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.
North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group
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North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group is a non-profit general farm that provides insurance services for farmers and rural communities.
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.
House of Raeford Farms
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House of Raeford Farms is a poultry company.
Prestage Farms
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Prestage Farms is an animal farm company remains an industry leader in pork and turkey production.
Plant Delights Nursery
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Plant Delights is a perennial plant nursery that retails native, rare and exotic plants from all around the world.
Eden Brothers
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Eden Brothers is an online store that provides flower bulbs, vegetables, herbs, wildflower and organic seeds.
L&M Companies
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L&M Companies specializes in the production, packing, and supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.
The McGregor Company
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The McGregor Company specializes in research and technology, seed care and risk management in the agricultural sector.
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.
Gb Biosciences Corp
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Syngenta is a company that operates in the Biotechnology industry.
Buy Sod
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Buy Sod specialize in providing high quality turf grass at an affordable price.
Carolinas Cotton Growers Cooperative
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Carolinas Cotton Growers Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative industry for cotton procedures.
Crop Microclimate Management
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Crop Microclimate Management provides solutions to the problems of abiotic stress to growers.
Foster Caviness
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Foster Caviness is a producer and supplier of wholesale products such as fruits, vegetables, and other consumer products.
Green biz nursery
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Green biz nursery provides services including residential landscaping, commercial landscaping, grounds management, and irrigation repair.
Hoffman Nursery
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Hoffman Nursery offers ornamental and native grasses liners to the wholesale horticultural trade.
Sipcam Agro
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Sipcam Agro provides charged plant protection solutions.
Agri-Technologies
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Agri-Technologies is an agriculture consulting company.
Team Flower
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Team Flower is a community that offers training and educations on floral design, flower planting along with workshops to floral specialists.
Clifton Seed Company
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Clifton Seed Company is a agriculture company located in Faison.
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.
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
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Carolina Farm Stewardship Association is a sustainable agriculture organization that provides farming services.
North Carolina Farm Bureau
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North Carolina Farm Bureau is a non-profit farm organization that voices in the interest of the farming community for various services.
Juneberry Ridge
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Juneberry Ridge is an event organizer that offers corporate events, holiday events, weddings, ridge activities, lodging, and dining.
Elysian Fields Farm
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Elysian Fields Farm is a farm that provides vegetable distributing services.
Harvey’s Fertilizer & Gas
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Harvey Fertilizer & Gas provides agricultural products and services to growers.
Loving
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Loving specializes in a wide range of landscape services including construction, enhancements, management, hardscapes and farming services.
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
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Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is a nonprofit organization that helps farmers.
Rockwell Farms
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Rockwell Farms is a commercial greenhouse and provides floral solutions.
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.
United Tobacco
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United Tobacco is a farm that produces and supplies flue cured and burley tobacco.
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.
Wyatt Quarles Seed Company
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Wyatt Quarles Seed Company is a wholesale distributor of lawn and garden products.
B&T Pest Control
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B&T Pest Control is the company that provides variety of pest control services.
Hickory Nut Gap
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Hickory Nut Gap is a producer of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats in the Southeast.
Cyn-Mar
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Cyn-Mar is a wholesale florist company that provides flower products to event planners and retailers.
Leary Plant Farm
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Leary Plant Farm specializes in spring bedding plants, hanging baskets, and flowering potted plants.
Sagamore Companies
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Sagamore Companies manufactures and supplies mulches, soils, composts, gravels, aggregate products and fertilizer.
Ham Farms
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Ham Farms produces high quality organic and conventional sweet potatoes, also focus on cabbage, watermelon, and hard squash.
PhytoPharmacon
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PhytoPharmacon is a natural botanical product library and ingredient company.
Southern Agricultural Insecticides
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Southern Agricultural Insecticides manufactures a wide range of chemical fertilizers for the farming industries.
North Carolina Farms
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North Carolina Farms provides rooted plugs, unrooted cuttings, shuttle, germination trays, supplies, and plant products.
Green Resource
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Green Resource is a manufacturing company that specializes in the production of chemicals, seeds, fertilizers, and gardening machinery.
Agrifacture
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Agrifacture is a agricultural production and processing company.
Sandhills Farm to Table
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Sandhills Farm to Table is a cooperative that grows and offers fresh and local food to the region as well as support to farmers.
IMPACT Agronomics
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IMPACT Agronomics is an agricultural consulting firm.
Wallace Farm
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Wallace Farm is a manufacturing company that produces a variety of fertilizers, compost, mulch, and soil products.
Council Tool
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Council Tool is a designer and manufacturer of striking tools, axes, mauls, sledgehammers, pry bars, and fire tools.
Barnes Farming
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Barnes Farming is a farming & agricultural firm providing the best in quality sweet potatoes.
Divine Llama Vineyards
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Divine Llama Vineyards produces superior wine and offer a unique and personal experience for tastings complimentary wine to visitors.
Minor Use Foundation
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Minor Use Foundation provides growers around the globe with plant protection technology & breaks down agricultural trade barriers.
North Carolina Growers Association
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North Carolina Growers Association is a temporary labor organization that provides seasonal farm workers and workforce services.
Asimetrix
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Asimetrix is a software development company serving the animal protein sector.
Linville Falls Winery
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Linville Falls Winery is a vineyard, winery, and farm, cultivating grapes and making wine.
Broley Homestead
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Broley Homestead is a farm and plant nursery that specializes in perennials, annual flowers, and heirloom vegetables.
Blue Mountain
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Blue Mountain provides advanced savory flavor technology to create the foods of the future.
Unicon
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Unicon is an agriculture company that provides field services and logistics to poultry processing complexes.
SpecialtySoft
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SpecialtySoft is to introduce innovative software tools to the art and picture framing industry.
SoilMetrix
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SoilMetrix develops a virtual soil sampling and field mapping solution to improve productivity.
Haw River Mushrooms
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Haw River Mushrooms is a family-owned mushroom farm based in Saxapahaw, NC.
Asheville Mulch Yard
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Asheville Mulch Yard is an e-commerce company that offers a comprehensive range of organic gardening and natural landscaping products.
Fox Point Farm
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Fox Point Farm is a farming company that specializes in the outdoor market with raising shetland sheepdogs and horse training services.
Millstone Creek Orchards
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Millstone Creek Orchards is a farming company based out of 506 Parks Crossroads Church Rd, Ramseur, NC, United States.
Red Hen Enterprises
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Red Hen Enterprises grows and sells worms for composting systems.
Cropsolution
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Cropsolution uses chemistry technology to discover and develop agrochemicals to protect crops from diseases, pests, and more.
Saint Paul Farms
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Saint Paul Farms is an orchard and vineyard that grows fruits and produces ciders, spirits and wines as well as hosts wine-tasting events.
The Farmers’ Daughter
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The Farmers’ Daughter is a farm that produces several varieties of strawberries, blueberries, and mixed vegetables.
NC Landman
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NC Landman offers farm and real estate services.
Carrigan Farms
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Carrigan Farms specializes in growing quality fruits & vegetables, educational school tours & field trips, weddings, & other special events.
Carolina Greenhouse
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Carolina Greenhouse is an agricultural transplant productions company.
Taylor’s Nursery
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Taylor’s Nursery is a wholesale company that provides a variety of plants and trees for landscaping and gardening.
Creekside Farms Nursery
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Creekside Farms Nursery offers plantation materials, including field-grown flowering and shade tree samplings.
Carbon Harvest
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Carbon Harvest is a carbon offset platform that provides carbon farm planning, education, and carbon management planning services.
The IR-4 Project
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The IR-4 Project provides pest management solutions for specialty crops.
