News and Analysis on Global Agri-Tech Innovation, Investment and Regulation
Digital Catapult’s latest cohort aims to future-proof the UK’s agri-food sector with deep tech innovation, tackling challenges from dairy forecasting to biodiversity monitoring
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit London 2025
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds and Heritable Agriculture enter a collaboration to optimize commercial crop portfolios using AI
AI is helping farmers make better planting and crop input decisions, but that does not diminish the role crop consultants play in helping growers
Sustainable September
Soil in Formation (SIF) created a data platform to show soil’s ability to sequester carbon — a tool that can help develop the ag industry’s carbon market
Greenhouse growers will enjoy ‘unprecedented clarity into the physiological state of their crops’ after Dutch AI-powered horticulture specialist Source.ag launched new metric tools
Earlier this year Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) announced a partnership with AI-driven plant breeding start-up Avalo. The project hopes to find sugarcane varieties that offer better yields from lesser quantities of water and fertiliser, explains...
The UK will be a pilot location for a Europe-wide project designed to validate and verify the impact of regenerative farming practices in potato production
US agribusiness giant is set to acquire 100% of the operations of a Brazilian animal nutrition company
S2G Investments, Kula Bio, GX Agriculture, and Breakthrough Energy representatives discussed how to enable agtech adoption, creating a more sustainable sector in the process
SoundTalks continues to have backing of existing shareholders, illustrating a confidence in the company and the future of PLF, according to the CEO
World Agri-Tech South America Summit 2025
Companies from BASF to Solinftec are using AI to create on-farm efficiencies, reducing the dependence on fertilizers and increasing crop yields
The rapid expansion of AI applications in agriculture – particularly those collecting data and providing real-time advice – will significantly impact workforce needs in the sector, according to the UK-based Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture...
As the global agriculture industry wrestles with AMR, tighter regulations, and the call for sustainability, bacteriophage-based solutions have emerged as a promising - but complex - alternative to antibiotics
Opinion
AGI (or artificial general intelligence) is here and defined as AI that can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a broad range of tasks at a level equal to or surpassing human intelligence. In this guest article, Mark S. Brooks – the climate...
‘Investors are becoming more discerning, not less committed’
Methane busting startup closed $15m Series A round late last month
AI products have become increasingly use-case focused over the last 12 months, believes Feroz Sheikh, chief information and digital officer at Syngenta Group.
AI was a big theme of the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, where attendees heard realistic discussions about how to put AI to best use in agriculture.
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit hit San Francisco last week. Here’s some topics that stood out.
Thanks to rapid recent progress, AI technologies originally developed for healthcare are finding applications in agriculture.
A $1 billion scheme aims to give hundreds of millions of farmers across Asia, Latin America and Africa greater access to weather data to help them manage the effects of climate change.
Agtech companies are celebrating recognition in TIME magazine’s best inventions for 2024. Does it mark a turning point in wider perceptions of the industry?
Fourteen start-ups offering disruptive, scalable solutions and technologies for the climate-stressed agricultural regions of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia will take centre stage at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in Dubai on December 9-10.
Bowery Farming may not be the last vertical farming company to fail before the sector begins a period of more stable scaling and growth.
Farmers are not resistant change, says Phil Bicknell, CEO at the newly merged UK-Agri-Tech Centre. But the “three Cs” of communication, collaboration and cash are needed to help them adopt newer sustainable practices.
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GenAI and AI platforms continue to develop at a fast pace, experts from Microsoft and Syngenta Group told the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London. But ‘humans in the loop’ are needed to develop dependable frameworks for validating...
From regen ag to AI and biologicals… what’s hot and what’s not in agtech? This and much more was discussed at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London.
Sustainability report card
The meat giant’s climate ambitions are ‘unwavering’, according to its latest sustainability report. Is it making genuine progress or just hot air?
A new standard-setting playbook edited by Leaps By Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer, aims to spur innovation and investment across the sector.
Innovation Insider Country profile
After the crisis in funding in 2023, India’s agtech landscape is adjusting. But can investment be directed to the right places? Harry Holmes investigates.
Integrating artificial intelligence into today’s environmental control systems could reduce energy consumption for indoor agriculture by 25% – potentially helping to feed the world as its population rises, Cornell University engineers have found.
This is certainly the hope of US company Better Earth, which recently unveiled the first compostable foodservice packaging made exclusively with materials grown using regenerative agriculture methods.
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and machine learning can provide quick, accurate, and cost-effective product analysis of the chemical composition of agri materials, removing the need for expensive lab tests and putting the tech in the hands of workers...
406 Bovine leverages facial recognition technology to create ‘digital twins’ of cattle, enabling producers to pull up wellness, movement and treatment data by simply taking a photo of their animals’ heads.
In response to proposed legislation aimed at banning China-made drones in the US, a group of American distributors have come together to fight the ruling.
We caught up with India’s Cropin Technology, which has just partnered with Google's Gemini generative AI chatbot to launch Sage, a real-time intelligence platform for the agricultural sector.
Mitti Labs, which aims to reduce methane emissions in rice farming, has just secured $3 million in equity investment thanks to its prospects of being able to meet rising demand for verified carbon credits.
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s claims it is the first retailer in the world to invest in new AI veterinary technology used to measure and enhance positive animal welfare on dairy farms, which could revolutionise the approach to cattle care.
How scientists are helping the food industry to grow crops, using AI.
Despite being backed by a world-renowned science base, the UK's agri-tech industry grapples with significant challenges in translating its research into practical applications for end-users.
Portfolio Profiles
AgTechNavigator caught up with SparkLabs Cultiv8, an Australian-based accelerator programme that supports early-stage agri-food tech and cleantech startups from ideation to commercialisation.
Hexafarms, a start-up which develops software for indoor commercial food production, has announced the successful close of a €1.3 million pre-Seed funding round led by leading European early-stage investors Speedinvest with participation from Mudcake and...
Seven disruptive start-ups have been selected to drive agri-food innovation and economic growth in the country, offering innovative solutions to enhance the agrifood value chain, improve commercial exchanges, and introduce high-value crops.
Researchers in Germany have published an agenda for the smart digitalisation of agriculture.
The Israeli company says securing this round of capital in today’s challenging economic climate is further validation of Greeneye’s mission to drive mainstream adoption of precision spraying technology in the US.
VC investment
PitchBook’s latest Q1 2024 Agtech Report indicates a market undergoing a correction, with the wheat being separated from the chaff. Some sectors are hotter than others, meanwhile.
Augmented reality improves productivity and efficiency in agriculture, but adoption remains limited, according to a new report.
Founded in 2022, Cornell University spin out Orchard Robotics has engineered a vehicle-mounted, AI-powered camera system that gathers precision data about fruit on trees.
Rock removal company TerraClear has announced its existing investors have poured an additional US$15 million into capturing the untapped US$2.7 rock management market. A 5,000-year-old problem finally has a solution, it says.