Bayer CEO Bill Anderson called the ongoing litigation “a huge burden” on company financials during a recent investor call.
As regulatory pressure to reduce herbicide use increases, Sentera adds precision weed management to its tech stack.
The two companies will combine swarming with heavy-payload drones for more precise, effective spraying on specialty crops.
NewLeaf will expand development of its microbial-based technology for biological crop protection and stimulant products.
US-based AgroSpheres has a novel delivery system that both encapsulates and delivers pesticides to plants in a more targeted approach.
Ag biotech startup Tropic and Corteva Agriscience are partnering to develop stronger disease resistance traits in corn and soybeans.
Acquiring Biotrop gives Biobest an automatic entry into the South American market for biological crop products.
Azaneo is developing a quick-pulse, low-power electrical weeding technology it hopes will reduce dependence on chemical herbicides.
From fungi to bacteriophages, biologicals have been developed to tackle everything from bacterial blight to fungal infections, says Santiago-based startup Exacta Bioscience. But many of them are not (yet) ready for prime time.
Peter R. Mueller talks food security, efficacy and a host of other reasons we need both biological and chemical crop protection.
Ecorobotix offers weeding and crop protection via its “high-precision sprayer” for targeted herbicide, fungicide and pesticide application.
As a new report from the outlines, Trace Genomics’ hi-definition genome sequencing technology can decode and catalog the complete soil environment.
University professor and startup founder Kaiyu Guan discusses remote sensing, computational modeling and why scientific credibility is critical for agtech’s success.
SwarmFarm combines autonomous vehicles with an open network to help farmers customize equipment based on their individual needs.
Fresh from the recent acquisition of precision irrigation startup Tule, CropX explains how it balances M&A with internal development for agtech solutions.
The partnership will combine the Farmers Business Network’s customized crop protection plans with Greeneye’s AI-based precision weed spraying system.
Australia’s evokeAG Startup Program is instrumental in connecting local and global startups to farmers researchers, corporates, governments and investors.
Solis Agrosciences’ CEO discusses the future of biotech, role of farmers, and how her experience as a woman and an immigrant has informed her work.
Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection and, ultimately, commodity farming.
Research finds that 80% of farmers cite input cost as the biggest risk to profitability; more are considering tools like precision ag and biologicals.
