AgVA Portfolio Company Soil Action Raises $5.25M to End the Guesswork Beneath the Surface

A Wyoming startup is shedding light on one of agriculture’s most expensive blind spots by turning every tractor into a real-time soil lab.

LARAMIE, WY / ACCESS Newswire / August 12, 2025 / Fertilizer is the biggest input cost in agriculture, and soil fertility is the least understood. Despite billions spent each year, most growers are still flying blind beneath the surface. They rely on lab tests that are weeks old before they hit the field. They’re forced to guess, extrapolate, and hope.

Soil Action believes farmers deserve better than hope and hindsight.

The Wyoming-based ag intelligence company has raised $5.25 million in seed funding to bring real-time soil chemistry analysis to the tractor cab. Using AI and affordable off-the-shelf sensors, Soil Action is building what has never existed before: a soil lab that operates in real-time, in the field, on the tractor, and at a price point every grower can afford. Read more