Cheney, Kansas, Sept. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Greenfield Robotics opened ownership of the company to everyday investors today, six years after its first machines went to work in commercial crop fields. Founded by third-generation farmer and technologist Clint Brauer, Greenfield Robotics is on a mission to eliminate herbicides, regenerate soil biology, and restore profit to farmers, all through scalable, intelligent technology. Its Regulation A+ offering is open to any investor in the United States.
The company has 82 robots working in paying customers' fields across 16 states. Its sold-out 2026 season was delivered in full. Next season, the platform adds four more jobs: feeding the crop after dark, seeding and mulching cover crops, and planting the cash crop."
Farmers need another tool
Herbicides reshaped modern agriculture, and the ground under that business is moving. In February, Bayer agreed to pay up to $7.25 billion to settle claims that its glyphosate weedkiller causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In March, Syngenta said it would stop making paraquat, already banned in 70 countries. Neither admits wrongdoing. Both products are still legal on U.S. farms.
Weeds keep evolving resistance. That leaves growers choosing between heavier applications, more tillage, or hand labor.
Greenfield's premise: farming work now done with chemicals can be done by robots.
The founder
"My dad got Parkinson's. That began the quest."
That is how Clint Brauer explains the eight years behind Greenfield. He is a third-generation farmer from ground outside Wichita, Kansas. Before turning back to farming, he spent fourteen years in Los Angeles building technology before he moved back.
His father, Tony, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Brauer came home, looked at what his family had sprayed for decades, and started building a machine that could do the same job without it.
How it works
Greenfield's system separates seeing the field from doing the work.
First, a drone surveys the field and creates a detailed map of where weeds are located relative to the crop rows. That information is used to create a digital prescription for the robot.
BOTONY™ then uses the map to navigate the field and mechanically cut weeds at ground level. The result is a fundamentally different approach to weed control: map the problem, then send the machine to do the work. And because the same autonomous platform can be equipped for other field operations, Greenfield is extending the system beyond weeding to include cover-crop mulching, crop feeding, and planting.
The proof
- 82 robots have worked commercially since the first units went to the field.
- 16 states. Fleets ran across sixteen states and sixteen kinds of soil this season.
- Six years of in-field operation on paying customers' ground, through weather, breakdowns, and harvest deadlines.
- Sold out for 2026, with more than $1 million in robots delivered this season.
- 2,600 shareholders already own a piece of the company through earlier rounds.
- Universities bought machines. Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin purchased robots for research. The University of Nebraska won a grant to do the same.
- Federal proving ground. The USDA selected Grand Farm in North Dakota as the robotics site for its National Proving Grounds Network for AgTech. Greenfield's fleet ran there this season.
- Investors and partners include Chipotle's Cultivate Next fund, KingsCrowd Capital, Innovative Livestock Services, Rodale Institute, the Missouri Soybean Association and the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The manufacturing inflection point
Greenfield's manufacturing partner is Amity Technology, the Fargo, North Dakota equipment maker led by Howard Dahl. The Dahl family has a long history in farm machinery, including the development of the Concord air seeder and a lineage behind Bobcat and Steiger. North Dakota committed $500,000 toward a facility for the work.
The partnership gives Greenfield an established production operation as it moves from small-batch assembly toward volume manufacturing. For a hardware company, that step determines how quickly the rest of the plan can proceed.
"For a long time we made these by hand in a shed in Kansas," Brauer said. "There's a production line in Fargo now. That changes how fast we can put machines out and how fast we can iterate on them."
Beyond weeding
Weed cutting was step one. Greenfield has been adding jobs to the same platform, so one machine covers more of the season:
Cut weeds → feed the crop after dark → spread cover crop seed → mulch it down → plant the cash crop
The mulcher that closes that loop is in trials at 15 locations, with university crews testing alongside the company's own. Greenfield's goal is to reduce, and eventually remove, the need for herbicide in the crops its platform can serve.
The public offering
Greenfield Robotics Corporation is offering Common Stock under Regulation A+ through StartEngine Primary, LLC. At $2.07 a share, investors get an ownership stake in the company, not a note that converts later. The round is open to accredited and non-accredited investors alike. Bonus incentives are available, up to 20%.
Proceeds go toward manufacturing and production, field operations, research and development, and the cost of running the company. In this business that means one thing: more robots in more fields.
Ahead of today's launch, more than 500 people indicated interest in reserving over $1,000,000 worth of shares during the company's Testing the Waters period. Those indications were not binding commitments to invest.
International investors may participate. The SEC permits people outside the United States to invest in Regulation A+ offerings, subject to the platform's verification requirements and to the laws of the investor's own country.
Full terms, the offering circular, and the risk factors are at invest.greenfieldrobotics.com.
About Greenfield Robotics
Greenfield Robotics builds robot fleets that control weeds without chemicals, so farmers can raise food without spraying it. Founded by Kansas farmer and technology executive Clint Brauer and headquartered in Cheney, Kansas, the company runs its BOTONY™ fleet across 16 states and manufactures with Amity Technology in Fargo, North Dakota. Its mission is to remove chemicals from farming and the food supply. More at www.greenfieldincorporated.com.
Important Information
This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Please read the Offering Circular and related disclosures before investing.This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. The amount raised may include insider investments, which may go toward meeting the minimum offering amount.
Nakita DiGuardi
Head of Marketing
Greenfield Robotics
310-469-8921
nakita.diguardi@greenfieldrobotics.com
Nakita DiGuardi nakita.diguardi(at)greenfieldrobotics.com
