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Collaboration will explore crop traits that improve the performance of AI-powered harvesting robots as greenhouse operators seek solutions to persistent labor shortages.
By turning soil electrical conductivity into a moisture map, the system lets citrus growers water dry trees individually and waste less in drought.
The pilot will turn city-generated green hydrogen into ammonia using a low-temperature, low-pressure synthesis process.
The Netherlands crop biotech will fold Pairwise’s CRISPR toolkit into its editing services for vegetable and soft-fruit breeders.
Amazon Climate Pledge Fund-backed company raised $37 million to commercialize methane-eating microbes before putting research and demonstration assets up for sale.
The Belgian biotech uses the fresh capital to pursue EU approval of EVOCA and California registration, while advancing BioFun-6 field trials and a manufacturing scale-up with 21st.BIO.
The interdisciplinary team will build an early-warning system that scans environmental, biological and supply-chain data to flag risks to global food production.
The Quebec-based biotech’s photosynthetic phytoreplicator platform produces plant-based active ingredients inside a controlled environment, without field agriculture — and a CAD$20M Series A follows in Q3 2026.
Total capital raised reaches $370M as the company doubles down on robotics and automation following its 2025 acquisition of Tortuga AgTech, and opens an R&D center in Tokyo.
The oversubscribed Series C was co-led by Forbion and Corteva, and follows a year in which Tropic launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years — with demand already outstripping supply.
The fund targets the “missing middle” between early venture and infrastructure capital, with $300M already deployed in companies including herbicide-improvement startup Exacto.
The oversubscribed final close brings total funding to $12.4M and follows a joint development agreement with Corteva to develop native disease-resistance traits in corn.
A provisional patent covers a yeast-derived VLP delivery system that could extend precision pest control to sucking insects and a wider range of agricultural targets.
John Deere’s model year 2027 lineup consolidates See & Spray into a single Gen 2 platform with 4x camera accuracy, adds See & Scout free field-intelligence mapping, automates planting depth with ExactDepth, and brings factory autonomous operation to the 2730 Combination Ripper.
Venture investment in agriculture technology startups remains well below the sector’s 2021 peak.
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