Two Iowa ag business start-ups are in the running for top honors in the 2016 American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge.

The two companies — AccuGrain and AgriSync — each were awarded $15,000 last week after being named among four semi-finalists in the AFBF competition, emerging from a field of 165 applicants.

ScoutPro, an Iowa-based mob­ile crop scouting and pest identification technology, was named AFBF’s Rural Entrepreneur of the Year during ...