US-based AgroSpheres has a novel delivery system that both encapsulates and delivers pesticides to plants in a more targeted approach.
The partnership will combine the Farmers Business Network’s customized crop protection plans with Greeneye’s AI-based precision weed spraying system.
Both companies have struggled to stay afloat and face further headwinds from the current downturn and rough economic climate.
Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection and, ultimately, commodity farming.
Aqua-Yield’s concentrated liquid products can be added to most spray inputs farmers use for crop protection and soil and plant health.
Enko will use the funding to advance its pipeline of crop protection chemistries that provide an alternative to outdate chemical-based products.
“We have additional insecticide candidates at earlier stages in our pipeline, as well as our first fungicidal candidates,” CEO Anna Rath tells AFN.
Startups developing biological crop inputs secured a total of $892 million in funding last year.
The Kirkland, Washington startup offers farmers high-precision plant and soil health management.
The Ithaca, New York-based startup will use the funding to commercialize its biopesticide product and expand field trials to more row crops.
Impact investor Astanor Ventures led the round, joined by similarly impact-minded WakeUp Capital
The Good Growth Plan is a response to a recent survey showing that 72% of farmers have concerns about the impact of climate change.
Diversified Labs can identify over 600 pesticides, PCBs, dioxins, antibiotics, mycotoxins, and other chemical contaminants found in food, according to the company.
In this episode of Future Food, AFN editor Louisa Burwood-Taylor speaks to Klaus Kunz, head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at German agro-pharma giant Bayer.
Israeli foodtech incubator The Kitchen has made two new investments in food safety device Inspecto and sugar reduction technology Better Juice, both of which are responding to pressing consumers demands.
Using data analytics and artificial intelligence, FieldIn analyzes geospatial, chemical, biological, weather and other data to help growers plan their pesticide applications and then monitor them in real time to spot any errors in the application.
Israeli drone software startup Skyx has raised an undisclosed seed funding round to commercialize its software that allows one operator to control a fleet of up to six crop spraying drones.
The UK spin out of pharmaceutical company Redx Pharma, is partnering with agrochemical companies to discover new ag chemical compounds.
The Applegates have been inventing and building farm technology since they were nine years old and have now launched Praxidyn, an agtech startup.
The “merger of equals” will create a $130 billion market cap company, DowDuPont, which will then split into three separate businesses for agriculture, material sciences and specialty products.
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