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Autonomous Vineyard Tractor News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. ZTractor has commercialized the first ever autonomous electric tractor. Co-founder and CEO Bakur Kvezereli says one of the markets that they’ve found a natural fit with is in winegrapes. Kvezereli… “Grape growers are a great market for us for multiple reasons. When you make spraying anything in your vineyard, unmanned has a big advantage over that. So you dont get exposed to the chemicals...

Crop Protection Goes Digital News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. As farming has embraced more digital technologies, the industry has been able to drastically reduce its reliance on chemicals. Meyers… “If you look at the last 50 years, it surprises a lot of people. The use of crop protection products, if you look at it in terms of gallons or volume, is actually down 90%.” That’s Greg Meyers, Chief Information Officer at Syngenta...

Agrifood-tech venture capital fund manager PeakBridge and agrifood innovation ecosystem EIT Food, which is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), have announced the launch of PeakBridge FoodSparks SCSp, a new seed fund for European agrifood-tech startups.

Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (pic) said this collaboration was important to ensure digital technology could be applied quickly as part of Malaysia’s efforts to advance the digital economy in line with the Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (MyDigital). CYBERJAYA: The Malaysia Digital Economy Corp (MDEC) and CIMB Islamic Bank are providing RM25mil micro-financing as an initial funding package to drive the country’s agriculture ecosystem based on digital tec...

An agtech start-up incubated at T-Hub is attempting to address a unique problem that farmers in the country face – little or no value-addition to the commodities that they sell, resulting in poor inco

Ag Startup Engine Looking For Early-Stage Agtech Companies Thursday Mar 11th, 2021 News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Much of the boom in ag technology has been fueled by venture capital. So what are these investors thinking about the future of farming? Iowa-based Ag Startup Engine recently announced they have increased their investor-member base and are planning to invest in up to 45 startups over the next five years. Executive Direc...

Swegreen launches the ‘NextGen’ of super-efficient in-store vertical farms in Ica Maxi megastore in Linköping. This puts the company’s Farming-as-a-Service growing unit for leafy greens right at the entrance of the store. The new vertical farm will be the Scandinavia’s largest in-store cultivation. Swegreens innovative in-store service will make the Ica Maxi megamarket in Linköping, located in Mid-Sweden, the first of all Sweden’s megamarkets to offer fre...

Quality Differentiators for Commodity Crops Friday Feb 26th, 2021 News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. The latest in food and feed science has improved our understanding of diet and nutrition. As our knowledge grows in this area, we realize not even commodity crops may have the same nutritive value. Genesis Feed Technologies is helping feed manufacturers get the most value out of their ingredients, and CEO Peter Schott thinks this could ...

Handheld breath test device for pregnant cattle to move to industry trials TueTuesday 16 updated TueTuesday 16 FebFebruary 2021 at 7:24pm Bronwyn Darlington is the founder and CEO of Agscent and farms at Carwoola Station in southern NSW. ( Print text only Cancel A device that could change the way farmers preg test cattle is a step closer to commercialisation. Key points: The federal government backs commercialisation of the device with $600,000 grant Trials on farm will continue with the produc...

15 startups shaking up animal health, nutrition and precision farming Multiple new technologies are entering the market to support producers in improving sustainability, traceability, and animal welfare from farm to fork. The virtual Animal AgTech Innovation Summit, coming up next month, is set to showcase 15 international startups with pioneering technologies aimed at disrupting animal health and nutrition, from probiotics, to machine vision to artificial monitorin...