Cargill and Cainthus bring cow facial recognition to dairy farms
In Minnesota, Cargill and Cainthus, a Dublin-based machine vision company, are reshaping how animal producers make decisions for their livestock through a strategic partnership...
Nigeria to plant jatropha along 5,000km of NNPC pipelines
In Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company announced it will begin planting jatropha along its 5,000km of pipeline to produce biodiesel but the trees...
Agri-food innovation in Ontario gets a $713 million boost
In Canada, the Ontario provincial government will invest up to $713 million toward a unique agreement between the University of Guelph and the Ontario...
First ever carbon credits from rice farming are bought by Microsoft
In New York, the Environmental Defense Fund announced the first ever carbon credits generated from rice farmers were sold to Microsoft. The credits were...
Monsanto and NRGene enhance plant breeding with genome analysis technology
In Missouri, Monsanto Company reached a non-exclusive, multi-year global licensing agreement with Israel-based NRGene that allows NRGene’s genome analysis technology to enhance Monsanto’s ability...
Benson Hill Biosystems receives $25 million to advance seed trait prediction
In Missouri, Benson Hill Biosystems closed a $25 million Series B investment round to further advance CropOS and to develop a portfolio of promising...
CNH and DroneDeploy release a drone and software bundle for same day field analysis
In Illinois, CNH Industrial selected DroneDeploy as the cloud-based platform for an all-in-one UAV system that is available now from CNH Industrial's network of...
DuPont Pioneer gains exclusive rights to ERS Genomics CRISR-Cas for advanced plant breeding
In Iowa, DuPont Pioneer licensed exclusively the patent portfolio covering CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology for all agricultural uses and applications in plants from ERS...
mPrest and Netafim partner to identify trends crucial to abundant crops
In Israel, mPrest, a global provider of mission-critical monitoring, control and big data analytics software for the Industrial Internet of Things, Internet of Energy...
Robotic strawberry harvester Advanced Farm Technologies raises $7.5M in Series A led by Yamaha
In California, Advanced Farm Technologies raised $7.5 in Series A investment round led by Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, with additional investments...