ADM and Cargill form Grainbridge for grain marketing decision support
In Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland Company and Cargill, Incorporated formed Grainbridge LLC, a technology joint venture intended to provide grain marketing decision support, e-commerce...
Smithfield Renewables expands manure to energy projects
In Virginia, Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced the nationwide expansion of Smithfield Renewables and a set of innovative projects designed to help meet its goal to...
Transforming the African Savannah into agriculture could feed Africa
In Côte d'Ivoire, the African Development Bank is championing a new effort to transform the African Savannah to the cradle of the continent’s green...
OneSoil releases agricultural field change data over three years for 43 countries
In Belarus, OneSoil, a precision farming startup, launched the OneSoil Map, a continuation of the OneSoil digital farming platform, to allow the agriculture industry...
Gamaya’s agronomic intelligence platform for tobacco now in use
In Switzerland, Gamaya's TobaccoFit solution is now in use by Philip Morris International and will be commercially available to growers in Brazil in early...
DigitalGlobe and Vodafone release Sensing4Farming to increase farm efficiency
In Colorado, DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, released Sensing4Farming, an Internet of Things product for smart, digital and precision agriculture. Created in partnership with...
Mars and Benson Hill are improving chocolate production with better cacao trees
In Virginia, Mars, Incorporated and Benson Hill Biosystems partnered to improve the productivity and climate resilience of cacao trees, essential to chocolate production.
Healthy, productive...
Centaur Analytics decreases food waste in the post-harvest supply chain
In California, Centaur Analytics, Inc. raised $3 million in funding to accelerate the deployment of its Internet-of-Crops Platform and to expand its predictive analytics...
Topcon and Kansas State establish a precision agriculture research campus
In Kansas, Topcon Agriculture and Kansas State University announced a comprehensive partnership and the new Topcon Agriculture Research Campus that will create a precision...
Iron Ox outfits the first automated indoor farm
In California, leveraging advancements in plant science, machine learning and robotics, Iron Ox launched the world’s first autonomous indoor farm focused on increasing the...