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Reservoir Farms expands to Pacific Northwest to accelerate physical AI

Ag robotics specialist Reservoir is opening a new site in Washington State as its on-farm community for physical AI expands to tree fruit and blueberries.

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

Danny Bernstein Reservoir Farms Image credit Reservoir Farms

IMIO raises $12m to unlock nutrients trapped in crop residues with new generation of ‘dependable ag biologicals’

IMIO’s freeze-dried biologicals can deliver yield improvements, fertilizer savings, and tillage savings, says CEO Charles Smith.

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Charles Smith, founder and CEO, IMIO. Image credit: IMIO IMIO Founder and CEO Image credit IMIO

It will take more than data to improve traceability in the cotton supply chain

New research supported by Cotton Diaries explores the idea of “relational traceability” and making farmers a key source of intel.

APAC

Developing markets

Reservoir Farms expands to Pacific Northwest to accelerate physical AI

IMIO raises $12m to unlock nutrients trapped in crop residues with new generation of ‘dependable ag biologicals’

It will take more than data to improve traceability in the cotton supply chain

Kodama nets $7m to scale physical AI for ‘intelligent forestry’

🎥 SenseUP aims to take RNAi pesticides from niche to mainstream

Could GLP-1 drugs finally put a price on crop nutrient density?

UK Agri-Tech Centre to slash workforce by 60% in strategic pivot to new operating model

AgriFood Signals: India’s Scimplify nets $25m, Deere funds food security, USDA funds seed research

Molagri raises $5.8m to build ‘updatable’ biopesticides

PerPlant lands Valtra deal to put its AI crop sensor on tractors straight from the factory

OlsAro raises $5.5m seed round as salt-tolerant wheat nears market

Switch Bio partners with Bayer to advance ‘switchable’ tech for biofertilizers

SLM Partners secures $167m from Dutch pension investor to regenerate forests

🎥 ClimateCrop bets on starch ‘off switch’ to improve crop performance

It’s time to take action on cybersecurity in agrifood

Exclusive: Yara Growth Ventures backs soil-sensing startup Stenon as fertilizer prices surge

BREAKING: The EVERY Co prevails in legal spat with Onego Bio

AgriFood Signals: Edonia raises funds to scale spirulina protein, AI agents for restaurants, PepsiCo does VR

Regen-organic food can be ‘measurably more nutritious,’ says new research from Edacious and ROA

Myca raises $1.3m pre-seed to put AI agents in charge of agribusiness field operations

🎥 Where are foodtech investors looking next after the boom and bust?

🎥 Verley progresses towards 200,000-L tanks as precision fermentation enters its prove-it phase

🎥 Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses: ‘It’s very targeted, almost like personalized medicine’

Twiga’s demise underscores the need for new financing models in African agrifoodtech

EU looks to speed agricultural research to market despite budget pressures

🎥 Atmonia scales green ammonia with single-step electrochemical process

AgriFood Signals: Corteva & Inari settle, Starbucks scales back green goals, countries rethink climate reporting

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