Seaweed pasta among pitches at Down Under agtech funding event
In Sydney, agtech start-ups aiming to solve the looming food needs of global population growth vied for funding at the Rabobank Farm to Fork...
Smart farms need more rural bandwidth
In Kentucky, rural bandwidth is the bottleneck that's standing between American farmers and the next great breakthrough in agricultural productivity according to Eric Lescourret,...
Get precise vegetative health data with a Sentera four-in-one multispectral sensor
In Minnesota, Sentera introduced the multispectral Quad Sensor, featuring four fully customizable imagers. In its standard configuration, the Quad Sensor offers standard Normalized Difference Vegetation...
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...
Farming shrimp in the cloud with Cargill’s iQShrimp
In Minnesota, shrimp farmers can tap into the first cloud-based solution in the aquaculture industry thanks to Cargill's iQShrimp. The predictive software uses machine...
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...
Jain Irrigation buys Australian Observant to offer precision farm water management
In California, Jain Irrigation, Inc. acquired the technology and core team of Australian Observant Pty Ltd, a provider of in-field hardware and cloud based...
Nuvus releases grow.droid controlled environment agriculture factories
In Florida, Nuvus Gro Corp., a provider of advanced controlled environment agriculture with sophisticated automation and analytical tools for the cultivators of legal industrial...
Soybean gene discovery could prevent crop losses and save farmers millions
In Indiana, a novel soybean gene that provides resistance to a devastating and costly fungal disease has been discovered by Purdue University and Dow...
USDA says farms that adopt precision agriculture have increased profits
In Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that precision agriculture technologies may offer cost savings and higher yields through more precise management...