SLANTRANGE releases aerial phenotyping for agriculture test plots
In California, SLANTRANGE, Inc., a leading provider of remote sensing and analytics systems for agriculture, released a new suite of analytics services developed specifically...
Biotica partners with HempTech to develop pharmaceutical grade marijuana strains
In Florida, HempTech Corporation agreed to build a drug development and manufacturing facility for Biotica Pharmaceuticals. HempTech, a provider of advanced controlled environment agriculture...
Walmart embraces blockchain for farm to table tracking
In Arkansas, Walmart and Sam’s Club sent a letter to suppliers of fresh, leafy greens asking them to trace their products all the way...
Farmobile and AmTrust Agriculture Insurance Services team to improve crop insurance
In Kansas, Farmobile, the farm data company, announced a strategic partnership with AmTrust Agriculture Insurance Services to leverage Farmobile’s data collection technology to build...
Azotic brings natural nitrogen fixing tech to US
In the UK, Azotic Technologies has laucnhed its natural nitrogen fixing technology, Envita, in the US market. Envita is derived from a naturally occurring...
Ceres Imaging raises $5 million to expand its agricultural imagery as a service business
In California, Ceres Imaging, an aerial spectral imagery and analytics company serving the agricultural sector, raised a $5 million Series A round led by...
Inari emerges to reduce plant breeding time and cost
In Massachusetts, Inari, a Flagship Pioneering company headquartered in Cambridge, launched a transformational plant breeding technology company. Inari began in early 2016 and has...
Pairwise raises $25 million to address global food challenges
In California, Pairwise Plants closed a $25 million Series A financing co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures. Pairwise is an agricultural company...
Robot weed killer could save Australian farmers $1.3 billion per year with sensors and...
In Australia, Queensland University of Technology researchers debuted Agbot II, a fully-autonomous robot farm worker that sees and kills weeds before they can impact...
Sol Chip introduces solar-powered, wireless tags to provide real-time crop data
In Israel, Sol Chip introduced the Sol Chip Comm, an autonomous wireless solar tag to power, control and wirelessly connect a wide variety of...