Oklahoma Farm Bureau has selected five rural-Oklahoma businesses to be part of the 2024 AgCelerate Oklahoma cohort through the Oklahoma Grassroots Rural and Ag Business Accelerators program.
The accelerators program is a collaborative rural development initiative from OKFB along with national and state-level partners that develops Oklahoma-based innovators creating ideas, technologies and products creating economic opportunities in rural Oklahoma.
Members of the 2024 AgCelerate Oklahoma cohort include BioAdvantage Recycling Company of Shawnee, which removes and repurposes waste products from processed cattle; E2C Cattle Company of Wagoner, which has created a nutritional supplementation calculator for beef cattle; Advanced Avigation of Fairview, a company that installs drone sensors to detect invasive plant species; Burgess Aerospace Innovations of Stillwater, which has created an AI-powered aerial drone technology to provide real-time data to livestock owners; and Blackjack Legacy of Minco, which promotes and markets superior beef products.
All five businesses are located in towns with populations of less than 50,000. Each founder has completed initial bootcamp training and a practice pitch day. Founders are in the process of being paired with a business mentor and are preparing to apply for OKFB’s Activate Oklahoma pipeline or the AgLaunch 365 accelerator program.
AgCelerate Oklahoma, formerly Cultivate Oklahoma, focuses on innovations and technologies that have an on-farm or production agriculture application in an effort to diversify opportunities for farmers with a farmer-focused and farmer-led development program. The AgCelerate Oklahoma track prepares businesses to apply for the AgLaunch 365 national accelerator program, which offers assistance with on-farm innovation testing and more.
For more information on the accelerators program, visit okfb.news/Accelerator.
