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...
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...
mPrest and Netafim partner to identify trends crucial to abundant crops
In Israel, mPrest, a global provider of mission-critical monitoring, control and big data analytics software for the Industrial Internet of Things, Internet of Energy...
Danforth Plant Science Center develops PheNode, a farm-ready phenotyping sensor
In Missouri, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researchers demonstrated the PheNode, a farm-ready, solar-powered environmental sensor and phenotyping station for crops. Able to monitor directly...
New way to make amino acids from wood
In Singapore, an international team of researchers developed a new sustainable chemical approach to produce a series of amino acids from woody biomass derivatives.
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NCBiotech receives $1.87M USDA/DOE grant to lead SE sorghum initiative
In North Carolina, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center received a $1.87 million federal grant for a three-year study of the production of sorghum as...
Researchers chart the potato’s lineage to reveal historic hybridization events
In Virginia, a team of researchers has charted the potato’s lineage in order to learn how the potato was domesticated and how its DNA...
Wefarm grows to over 1.1 million users across Kenya and Uganda
In the United Kingdom, Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, announced reaching over 1.1 million users across Kenya and Uganda. Moreover, for the...
Two types of crop models are better than one to predict climate change effects
In Illinois, scientists now have a new tool to predict the future effects of climate change on crop yields. Researchers from University of Illinois...
The BioAg Alliance announces biological seed treatments to improve crop harvests
In Denmark and Missouri, The BioAg Alliance, Monsanto’s and Novozymes’ collaboration to improve crop harvests through products containing naturally-occurring microbes, announced an updated research...