Ag Biologicals Heavyweight Poised to Launch First Commercial Product
In North Carolina, AgBiome is looking to register its first commercial product—a biological fungicide—this spring.
The fungicide, dubbed Zio, is a fermented microbial strain developed...
Enterra receives first ever Canadian approval to use farmed insects for fish food
In Canada, the Enterra Feed Corporation received approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to sell its Whole Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae as...
Veris enables precision soil mapping while planting and tilling
In Kansas, Veris Technologies announced a new line of soil sensors that easily mount to planters and tillage tools. Developed to help growers precisely...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stacked Microbial Seed Treatment Boosts Corn and Soybean Yields
In California, Marrone Bio Innovation and Israel’s Groundwork BioAg say joint field trials have shown yield increases in corn and soybean from using 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...
ADM sells Crop Risk Services to Validus Holdings for $127.5 million
In Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland Company sold its Crop Risk Services business to Validus Holdings, Ltd. for $127.5 million. The deal includes a marketing...