The investment from Mitsubishi and others will enable Genica to broaden its reach both in Latin America and globally.
Plus: Denmark to tax livestock farming emissions and Ohio lawmakers create a stink about cultivated meat.
The grower trial network will conduct extensive global field trials of promising biologicals on grower farms.
From seaweed to selective breeding, multiple approaches are being tested to cut methane emissions from belching ruminants. But could editing the genes of the microbes responsible for the problem change the game?
Challenges for the biologicals sector right now include dispelling a number of myths still prevalent in the industry.
The partnership will see Bluewhite’s autonomous technology on New Holland tractors in specialty crop farming operations.
“If we had American-made drones using American-made parts with American-made software that were as affordable and as good as DJI, we wouldn’t have an issue,” says Russell Hedrick. “But right now, they don’t exist.”
In the race to digitize agriculture we must remember to keep growers and producers at the center of operations and innovations.
The patented technology enables beneficial bacteria to penetrate the living tissue of fruits and vegetables and serve as endophytes: microbes that live inside plants.
Plus: New funds from Proterra, Asian Development Bank and others, and lawsuits aplenty.
Plant sap analysis can harmonize regenerative agriculture with economic prosperity.
Proposed legislation targeting Chinese drone maker DJI Technologies could have a devastating effect on US agriculture, claim firms supplying the drones to farmers.
Electro-stimulation can improve germination, boost tolerance to stress, and accelerate plant growth, says Sylvarum CEO Guadalupe Murga.
Adapting to a changing environment while supporting growers is the over-arching theme of this year’s Salinas Biological Summit.
Meanwhile, a longtime hot-dog-eating champion got the boot from a famous contest, and plant-based meat is the culprit.
Grand Farm aims to facilitates collaboration and research between groups to develop local agtech with applications for global agriculture.
“We had the human genome project,” says Dr. Claus Felby. “This is the planetary genome project… we are mapping everything in a given ecosystem.”
The two companies will develop new systems for more precise identification and elimination of weeds in row crops.
“It was probably around 2013 or 2014 when I was at Monsanto that it became really clear that CRISPR was going to matter” for plant breeding, says Pairwise cofounder and CEO Dr. Tom Adams.
Plus: new funding for Packwise, Aeropowder, and HerdDogg
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