Nexgen Plants emerges to commercialize novel crop technologies
In Australia, Nexgen Plants secured $3 million to commercialize two novel platform technologies developed at University of Queensland’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences.
The...
Bear Flag Robotics automates common farm tasks
In California, Bear Flag Robotics closed a $3.5 million seed funding round to continue developing autonomous technology for farms, which will help growers lower...
Robotic weeding system sees and removes weeds close to crop plants
In Arizona, to reduce hand-weeding labor costs, a University of California, Davis and Washington State University research team is developing and evaluating a precision...
Crop monitoring enters 4D
In Georgia, a four-dimensional, that is 3D plus time, reconstruction that can provide farmers with detailed crop information including plant heights and growth rates...
Trimble introduces an innovative VRI pressure regulator for center pivots
In California, Trimble introduced Irrigate-IQ, its optimal flow variable rate irrigation solution for farmers unable to use VRI due to pumping equipment constraints. Farmers...
Benson Hill and Embrapa partner to accelerate Brazil’s crop performance
In Missouri and Brazil, Benson Hill Biosystems and Embrapa partnered to accelerate crop performance programs with cutting edge genome editing capabilities.
"Brazil represents 20 percent...
The Climate Corporation integrates Sentera real-time on-field data to maximize farm profits
In Minnesota, Climate FieldView customers now have seamless integration of Sentera FieldAgent on-field sensor and analytics products and automatic synchronization of field boundary and...
Benson Hill receives $60 million to advance improved crops
In Missouri, Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop improvement company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, announced the first close of its $60 million...
Agrivida receives investments from TechAccel and Iowa Corn Opportunities
In Missouri, Agrivida, a St. Louis-based agriculture technology company focused on animal nutrition, received separate investments from TechAccel and Iowa Corn Opportunities to further...
BioLumic raises $5 million to enhance more crops with ultraviolet light
In New Zealand, BioLumic, creators of the first ultraviolet crop yield enhancement system, closed $5 million in Series A financing led by AgTech investors...