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🎥AgZen enjoys exponential growth as growers see rapid ROI on ‘feedback optimized’ spraying tech

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Precision agriculture

AgZen cofounder and CEO Vishnu Jayaprakash. Image credit: AgZen

Qarbotech turbocharges photosynthesis with carbon quantum dots: ‘We’re kind of cheating the plant to capture more light’

Agtech

Startups & funding

Chor Chee Hoe, cofounder, Qarbotech

Plant-based meat by numbers: Grim reading for the US retail market, brighter spots in foodservice and globally

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APAC

Plant-based meat. Image credit: istock/Natalia Semenova

Predator too? BioArmix tackles bacterial pathogens with novel ‘predatory’ biologicals

Phospholutions gears up for commercial-scale production of fertilizer additive with Toros Agri partnership

Kelly Hills Unmanned Systems debuts with the largest commercial autonomous crop sprayer in the US

Ag drone distributors form coalition to fight moves to block DJI drones in US market

Agtech

Precision agriculture

North Carolina farmer Russell Hedrick uses DJI spray drones to spray his corn fields

Ray of hope for farmers using DJI ag spray drones following release of Senate version of defense spending bill

Agtech

Rantizo DJI drone in action

North Carolina farmer weighs in on China ag spray drones battle: ‘Everyone is contacting their state reps about this’

Agtech

Precision agriculture

Russell Hedrick has been using ag spray drones from DJI for four years

Ag spray drones battle heats up as US lawmakers target Chinese drone maker DJI: ‘This will be a job killer in rural America’

Biologicals are ‘economically unfeasible’ for growers. Equipment manufacturers could change that

Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024

Locus Fermentation Solutions raises $30m in debt financing following ‘strategic restructuring,’ revamps carbon farming scheme

300,000 tons of grain and counting: Nigeria’s ThriveAgric aims for year-round food production for Africa’s smallholders

Meet the founder: Verdant Robotics’ Gabe Sibley on NASA rovers, self-driving cars, and ag robots: ‘They have to be insanely robust’

Verqor lands $7.5m from Yara, Accion and others to offer farmers ‘the fastest credit for agriculture in Mexico’

Rantizo raises $6m series A expansion for spray drone services; enjoys ‘exponential growth’

Brief: Crop biologicals firm Biobest eyes South America expansion with $570m acquisition of Brazil’s Biotrop

‘Pee in drinkable water is nonsense’: Toopi Organics lands $17m to turn urine into crop biostimulants

Agtech

EMEA

Why AgFunder invested in Azaneo’s low-power electric weeding tech

Agtech

Investing

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BREAKING: Canadian insect ag pioneer Aspire pursues court-supervised rescue deal

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Climate & sustainability

Aspire Food Group automated edible insect cricket production facility

Bio-input startup Pivot Bio blazes past $100m revenue mark, appoints a new CEO

Indian farmer marketplace DeHaat doubles down on biologicals with two new partnerships

Investing in ag biologicals: “We are looking for reasons to say no”

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