Barn Owl Precision Agriculture

Autonomous nano tractors. Weeding and planting for smaller farms.

Category
Frontier DeploymentAgriculture, aerial and space
// Overview

Barn Owl Precision Agriculture is a farmer-led company in La Junta and Florence, Colorado, that designs and operates autonomous nano-tractor robots for small and mid-size farms.Barn Owl Precision Agriculture

  • What they build

    The Autonomous Nano Tractor, or ANT, is a lightweight autonomous robot that fits between rows of 22 inches or wider, navigating by GPS and using computer vision to tell crops from weeds.Farm Progress

  • Where they stand

    Barn Owl showed the ANT at the AgLaunch startup showcase in March 2025.Farm Progress

  • Who they sell to

    Barn Owl sells to small and mid-size growers. In Colorado those farms can spend up to $500 an acre on hand weeding, and the company is aiming to bring that to $50 an acre.Farm Progress

  • Who runs it

    Sarah Hinkley signed Barn Owl's Form D as chief executive in March 2026, giving the company's business address as La Junta, Colorado.SEC EDGAR

  • Who's backed them

    Its Form D records $1.95m of equity sold against a $3.75m offering, claimed under Rule 506(b), with a first sale on 13 February 2026.SEC EDGAR

// By the numbers
4 acres
Covered in a day by one ANT, according to the companyFarm Progress
$50
Target cost per acre, against up to $500 an acre for hand weeding in ColoradoFarm Progress
$1.95m
Equity sold against a $3.75m offering, on its Form D of March 2026SEC EDGAR

The per-acre comparison is an example given in trade coverage, not a standard price. Barn Owl publishes no revenue, unit or deployment figures, and its Form D declines to disclose a revenue range.

Compiled from publicly available sources, September 2026. 3 sources. Every statement above links to its own.

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