Plenty gets $200 million to make fresh produce available to people everywhere
In California, making it the largest agriculture technology investment in history, Plenty received $200 million in a Series B funding round led by the...
TerrAvion raises $10 million to expand into key U.S. agricultural areas
In California, with a goal to offer service to 80 percent of U.S. irrigated agriculture by the end of 2017, TerrAvion raised $10 million...
FAA grants Clemson a blanket license to fly precision agriculture drones anywhere in the...
In South Carolina, the Federal Aviation Administration granted a Blanket Area Public Agency Certificate of Authorization to Clemson University allowing Clemson to fly unmanned...
Darling and Intrexon take insect-based feed production to commercial scale
In Texas and Maryland, Darling Ingredients Inc. and Intrexon Corporation announced their joint venture EnviroFlight, LLC plans to significantly expand production of advanced ingredients...
PrecisionHawk creates the largest network of commercially licensed drone pilots
In North Carolina, PrecisionHawk Inc., a leading provider of drone technology for the enterprise, bought Droners.io and AirVid and will merge the companies to...
DSM acquires Amyris Brasil and establishes long-term manufacturing partnership with Amyris
In The Netherlands, Royal DSM purchased Amyris Brasil Ltda from Amyris, Inc. and established a long-term manufacturing partnership for Amyris’ high-volume products. Total consideration...
Bowery raises $7.5 million to expand fresh produce vertical farming in urban areas
In New York, Bowery, an innovator in vertical farming, raised a cumulative $7.5 million and announced their first farm in Kearny, New Jersey is...
Land O’ Lakes will pay you $140,000 for your precision agriculture drone idea
In Minnesota, Land O’ Lakes, Inc. launched the Land O’Lakes Prize: Drone Challenge, a crowdsourcing competition to develop proposed solutions that enable scalable, autonomous...
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...
XAIRCRAFT debuts agricultural UAVs in Japan
In Japan, XAIRCRAFT, the Chinese agricultural UAV company, launched its flagship UAV Plant Protection System P20 in the Japanese market. Japan is one of...