Six AI-designed products for crop nutrition, plant physiology and climate resilience go on sale through a Kenyan horticulture partner, with East and West African launches planned through 2027; the company points to Kenya's KSh136.6 billion horticultural exports, declining soil fertility and a pestic
CapChar's integrated system turns local woodchip into biochar for cattle bedding, banks the pyrolysis heat in a patent-pending thermal battery for drying fuel wood, and measures the carbon removed — about 250 t CO2e expected from the 80-hectare South Downs livestock farm.
One pilot in Western Australia missed a drone by less than 30 metres and only saw it because of a car parked by the highway; the Aerial Application Association says a drone that hits a wing can travel through the aircraft and cut its control cables, and asks operators to look around, post a lookout
Cameras and algorithms continuously adjust ground speed, head speed, head pinch and belt and fan speeds towards goals the operator sets with two sliders; the system is available on 2027 Oxbo blueberry harvesters.
CTNBio's Biosafety Quality Certificate No. 714/26 lets Bioma, of the Cogny Ecosystem, use modified microorganisms in closed bioreactors as production platforms for purified molecules — isoprenoids, phytohormones, peptides — with the organism inactivated at the end of fermentation; until now only pha
FTMTA executive director Michael Farrelly sees grass machinery selling well on the back of dairy, horsepower creeping up as labour gets scarce, and renewed interest in efficient four-cylinder tractors as fuel costs bite.
Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as AI, IoT and big data could turn farming into a digital, knowledge-based sector that keeps young Bangladeshis on the land.
Danforth Center spinout Spearhead Bio has closed an oversubscribed $1.62 million seed round for its TAHITI platform, which pairs transposable elements with CRISPR to insert or replace large pieces of DNA precisely in crop genomes.
The integrated unit pairs Kinze's 5700 toolbar with Yetter's 2984 strip freshener, works 1.5 to 4 inches deep at 9.7–16 km/h, comes in 20-, 22- and 30-inch rows from 40 to 66 feet, and is pulled by 350-hp front-wheel-assist tractors on about 0.2 gallons of fuel an acre.
IIT Gandhinagar and ICAR's rapeseed-mustard directorate cloned SRK, FER1, MLPK and ARC1 in Brassica rapa toria and yellow sarson, modelled them with AlphaFold3 and silenced them one by one on the stigma; switching off SRK, FER1 or ARC1 made self-incompatible toria accept its own pollen — a tool for
Swiss maker Ecorobotix has unveiled a prototype 12-metre ARA 1200 spot sprayer at the AgroTechniek Holland fair, priced at about €210,000, with a 9-metre ARA 900 alongside it.
The de novo assembly of Gallus gallus murghi runs to about 1.12 Gb at 99.2% completeness across all 40 chromosomes, with a contig N50 of 36.55 Mb and scaffold N50 of 91.4 Mb; deposited as NCBI BioProject PRJNA1301553, it gives a reference for tracing purity and admixture in the wild ancestor of dome
Ray and Ryan Flickner's 1,000-acre Moundridge farm pairs subsurface drip irrigation laid in 2001 with strip-till, no-till, cover crops, drip lines retrofitted to pivots, an autonomous irrigator and plant sensors — and produced about 26 bushels per inch of water in the dry 2024 season, ten more than
