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AgrotechThe KAUST spin-out combines in-soil sensors with AI vision on a quadruped robot and a rover to spot crop stress early; it says fertiliser savings could reach 30 to 40 percent.
LivestockThe Norwegian livestock tech company's solar-powered cattle collars will warn farmers when a cow is calving and map how hard each pasture is grazed, as it grows in the US and doubles its warranty to ten years.
A Swiss crop-protection coating and a British cattle-monitoring system won the supermarket's two categories, earning trials inside its supply chain where farmers and suppliers can see them work.
AgrotechThe US startup's engineered soil microbes switch on nitrogen production around a crop's roots about six weeks after planting; Brazil's biosafety approval opens field trials in a country that imports most of its fertiliser.
AgrotechSpeakers at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London pointed to shared resilience finance, leaner agtech funding, products that fit farm systems and better risk intelligence as the next openings for agricultural innovation.
AgribusinessPractical Farmers of Iowa's two-year Savings Incentive Program pairs mentoring and business training with a dollar-for-dollar match for farm investment, as land access remains the biggest hurdle for beginners.
VegetablesWith 300,000 farmers in its supply chains facing drought, extreme weather and higher costs, PepsiCo is bringing growers together from 35 countries to share what works, its global agriculture procurement chief told AgNavigator.
AgrotechThe Swiss climate-tech start-up turns crop residues into biochar in small reactors near where they are produced and returns it to soils, and will use the money to make its system a repeatable hardware and software product.
CropsExecutives from IKEA, Royal Canin and Yara told a forum in Beijing that regenerative agriculture has proved itself in pilots, but no one has settled who carries the cost and risk of scaling it up.
AgrotechSpeakers at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London said biocontrols and biofertilisers will succeed by working reliably alongside existing crop programmes, while Europe's slow approvals hold the sector back.
AgrotechAgroNetica, a US arm of Israel's BetterSeeds, says its CRISPR-edited cacao showed 42% less black pod damage in Penn State assays and is drawing interest from four major chocolate makers.
Agri-TechE director Dr Belinda Clarke says supermarkets and supply chain firms investing in agtech, alongside strong UK public funding, give start-ups an alternative to venture capital in a hard market.
CropsProfessor Paul Teng of Singapore's ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute says ASEAN has a regenerative agriculture framework but no system that brings crop loss, insurance and finance together for its 100 million farmers.
