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In the press · Article · August 13, 2026

A college class on AI became the foundation for this million-acre Louisiana agtech platform

By Katie Malone · Technical.ly

Technical.ly traces FarmMind from LSU's first LLM course to more than a million acres, grown without traditional venture capital.

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Colin Raby and two FarmMind cofounders walking through a soybean field carrying insect sweep nets
Fig. 1Colin Raby (center), a cofounder at FarmMind. Photo courtesy of FarmMind, as published by Technical.ly.

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Technical.ly's "How I Got Here" series traces FarmMind from a fall 2023 class project to a platform supporting more than a million acres, a company whose first five users became its first angel investors, and which grew without traditional venture capital.