Gates Foundation awards grant to AgBiome to help smallholder farms in Africa
In North Carolina, AgBiome, LLC received a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to discover and develop a microbial solution for...
Wheelman by AgJunction offers autosteering for small farms
In Kansas, AgJunction introduced Wheelman, a new way for farmers to automatically and accurately steer farm equipment at a price that pays back in...
Researchers chart the potato’s lineage to reveal historic hybridization events
In Virginia, a team of researchers has charted the potato’s lineage in order to learn how the potato was domesticated and how its DNA...
Canndescent raises $10 million to expand cannabis flower production
In California, Canndescent, California's leading cultivator of ultra-premium cannabis, recently closed a $10 million Series B offering to finance the launch of new products...
PrecisionHawk leads with first beyond visual line of sight drone
In North Carolina, PrecisionHawk Inc., a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise, announced the first Beyond Visual Line of Sight -enabled, multi-rotor...
DTN acquires Spensa Technologies to offer customers a comprehensive solution
In Minnesota and Indiana, DTN, a global insight and analysis company, acquired ag precision technology company Spensa Technologies Inc., in a strategic move to...
Land O’ Lakes selects UrtheCast for daily medium-resolution agricultural imagery
In Canada, UrtheCast Corp. and Land O' Lakes, Inc. announced a long-term agreement for GEOSYS, a Land O'Lakes subsidiary, to purchase geospatial data from...
Toyota licenses GRAS-Di DNA analysis to accelerate selective breeding
In Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation signed an agreement with Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Eurofins Genomics K.K., and GeneBay Inc. to license Toyota's unique GRAS-Di...
Origin and Science Foundation Ireland commit €17.6 million for precision agriculture research
In Ireland, Origin Enterprises plc and Science Foundation Ireland committed €17.6 million to establish a dedicated digital, precision agriculture and crop science collaborative research...
With machine vision and lasers, robots take weeds out of the field
In Germany, a system using cameras and lasers on an all-terrain robot vehicle that can automatically identify weeds in a field and then weaken...