UPDATE: CNH Industrial acquires AgDNA to ‘enable 20% productivity gains throughout crop cycle’
The deal comes after the companies formed a partnership to give Cash IH farm equipment owners access to AgDNA’s AI platform in September 2018.
The deal comes after the companies formed a partnership to give Cash IH farm equipment owners access to AgDNA’s AI platform in September 2018.
One of the world’s largest dairy companies, FrieslandCampina, has tapped Norwegian company Kezzler to provide global traceability services for its top baby formula brand, FRISO.
Applications for the evokeAG 2020 Startup Program in Australia are open and the team has called on three of Australia’s leading innovators and champions for entrepreneurship to discuss what makes a stellar pitch.
Asia’s softening its stance towards cannabis, a once-taboo drug. It’s been legalized in three countries here, and counting. But is it a good time to invest?
Like most corporates the size of GrainCorp and many of the world’s agribusinesses, the company is not positioned or organized in a way that makes it possible to survey the startup scene as often as necessary. Step in TERRA, the accelerator from RocketSpace and Rabobank.
The Yelp for vegans is here. And it has $2.6m in its pocket. abillionveg is on a mission to capture $1bn in animal welfare causes and one billion users.
The Amazon Rainforest is being whittled away by one of the most massive blazes in history. Could tech have prevented it?
How much do fish need to eat? UMITRON tells us how its tech uses machine learning & IoT for aquaculture. We also interview their co-founder & MD.
Karn Manhas is founder and CEO of Terramera, an agbiotech startup focused on improving the sustainability of farming. Here he writes about the importance of promoting the farming industry as an appealing and impactful career for the next generation.
Funding for agtech in India has surged 300%. The number of startups also grew 25%. Is it any wonder why Asha Impact is bullish on the sector?
From giving farmers access to their padi on their iPads, to taking the carb out of rice. Here’s five rice tech startups in Asia you need to know.
From the bustling streets of Bangkok and into labs in the APAC region, here’s how start-ups here are harnessing the power of the insect kingdom.
AFN spoke to agtech founders and designers at the Grow Asia panel on August 15 about the keys to building successful apps for farmers in Asia’s developing markets.
A drive across this city-state takes less than getting from San Francisco airport to Silicon Valley. But Singapore’s making up for its lack of space by making it easier for startups to access funding and resources, as a Singapore foodtech startup ecosystem stars to grow.
A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods?
Christine Pitt is executive director of GROW, the new foodtech and agtech accelerator we’ve launched with Rocket Seeder in Singapore. (Applications are now open until August 19 so apply now!)
With plans to accelerate commercialization in the US corn and soybean markets, this next-gen seed company claims that this is the largest funding round secured by a female CEO for an ag biotech startup to date.
Gamaya launched in 2015 to bring high-tech imaging and analytics solutions to industrial-size farms. A new partnership with Indian tractor manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra is going to shift the Swiss company’s focus the other way, to small-scale farms.
Applications are now open for GROW, the first agri-foodtech accelerator program in Singapore, and judging by the number of applications we’ve had already, everyone’s pretty excited about it!
Focused on cotton and grain production, FluroSat’s flagship product FluroSense uses hyperspectral imaging to predict disease and support better crop health decision making. Agronomic data