Arysta licenses biostimulant from Beem Biologics
In Cary, North Carolina, Arysta Lifesciences has licensed a plant extract-derived biostimulant from Beem Biologics. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Field tests over the last...
USDA adds $100 million private investment fund for rural America
In Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched a new $100 million private investment fund managed by McLarty Capital Partners. The new fund...
Terramera raises $45M in Series B as Ospraie Ag Science, S2G back expansion of...
In Canada, Terramera®, an emerging cleantech leader with revolutionary technologies to transform how we grow food, announced today it has raised US$45 million in...
ADM and Cargill form Grainbridge for grain marketing decision support
In Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland Company and Cargill, Incorporated formed Grainbridge LLC, a technology joint venture intended to provide grain marketing decision support, e-commerce...
Ceres Imaging gets $2.5 million to deliver advanced aerial imaging analytics to more farms
In California, Ceres Imaging, an aerial spectral imagery and analytics company announced that it has secured an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding...
Transforming the African Savannah into agriculture could feed Africa
In Côte d'Ivoire, the African Development Bank is championing a new effort to transform the African Savannah to the cradle of the continent’s green...
Gamaya’s agronomic intelligence platform for tobacco now in use
In Switzerland, Gamaya's TobaccoFit solution is now in use by Philip Morris International and will be commercially available to growers in Brazil in early...
New renewable plastics from wood waste developed by Fraunhofer Institute
In Germany, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology researchers developed a pathway to the synthesis of polyamides from terpenes, a side stream of...
Kennedy Space Center now training space farmers on an Advanced Plant Habitat test unit
In Florida, a high fidelity test version of NASA’s Advanced Plant Habitat, the largest plant chamber built for the agency, has arrived at the...
The EU and the Gates Foundation support climate change adaption in developing countries
In Belgium, the European Union and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will work together on a joint initiative to drive research and technical...