🌾 FoodTech & Agriculture Intelligence Pipeline

Turn raw AgTech news into actionable market intelligence.

This Actor is a high-performance intelligence agent that monitors the web's top FoodTech, Agriculture, and Sustainability sources (AgFunder, FoodDive, Precision Farming Dealer, etc.). It doesn't just "scrape" news—it reads, analyzes, and structures it into specific data points like Commodities, Emerging Technologies, and Impact Scores using state-of-the-art AI.

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🚀 Why Use This Actor?

Most scrapers just give you a title and a link. We give you structured intelligence.

🧠 1. AI-Powered AgTech Analyst

Every article is processed by a Large Language Model to extract niche-specific data:

• 🚜 Key Companies: Automatically extracts players mentioned (e.g., "John Deere", "Beyond Meat", "Cargill").
• 🧬 Technologies: Identifies specific tech (e.g., "Precision Fermentation", "Vertical Farming", "CRISPR").
• 🌽 Commodities: Extracts crops or inputs mentioned (e.g., "Soy", "Nitrogen Fertilizer", "Alternative Protein").
• 💯 Impact Score (0-100): Instantly filter noise. Know if a story is "Routine PR" (10/100) or "Industry Shifting" (90/100).

🛡️ 2. "Unblockable" Architecture

AgTech and trade sites often have strict blocking. We use a robust "Scrape-First, Search-Fallback" engine:

1. Attempt 1: High-speed direct scraping of the article HTML.
2. Attempt 2: If blocked (403/429), the Actor automatically queries Brave Search API to reconstruct the context from rich snippets. You always get data, never a blank page.

📢 3. Real-Time Market Alerts

Connect a Discord Webhook to automatically post beautiful, color-coded alerts for high-impact news directly to your team's server.

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🛠️ Setup & Configuration (Critical)

###Configure Inputs**

Field	Description
News Source	Choose from pre-curated high-quality feeds (AgFunderNews, FoodNavigator, Green Queen) or provide a custom RSS URL.
Max Articles	Limit the number of items to process (Recommended: 10-50 per run).
Search Region	Bias the fallback search engine to a specific country (e.g., USA US, Brazil BR, France FR).
Discord Webhook	(Optional) Paste a Discord Webhook URL to receive instant alerts for high-score news.

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📊 Data Output

The Actor saves results to the Apify Dataset. We provide a rich Table View in the console for instant scanning.

JSON Example

{
  "title": "Iron Ox Launches New Mobile Robot for Vertical Farms",
  "url": "[https://example.com/agtech/iron-ox-launch](https://example.com/agtech/iron-ox-launch)",
  "published": "2025-11-30T10:00:00Z",
  "content_type": "AgTech Innovation",
  "impact_score": 85,
  "sentiment": "Growth",
  "companies": ["Iron Ox", "Plenty"],
  "technologies": ["Robotics", "Vertical Farming", "AI"],
  "commodities": ["Leafy Greens"],
  "summary": "Iron Ox has unveiled a new autonomous mobile robot designed to optimize yield in hydroponic vertical farms, signaling a shift towards fully automated CEA.",
  "data_source_method": "Direct Scraper"
}

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💰 Pricing & Monetization

This Actor uses a Pay-Per-Event model.

• Event: article-summary
• Cost: You are charged a small fee for every successfully analyzed article.
• Note: You are NOT charged for failed scrapes or duplicates.

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👨‍💻 For Developers

This Actor is built on a modular Python architecture using LangGraph for workflow orchestration.

• Reliability: Includes a runTestMode for zero-cost integration testing (passes Apify QA automatically).
• Tech Stack: Python 3.11, Pydantic, OpenAI SDK (OpenRouter), BeautifulSoup4, Brave Search API.

Legal Disclaimer: This tool provides information for educational and research purposes only. It does not constitute investment advice.