AgrotechFunded by PKSF and installed by the NGO Mausumi, IoT sensors on young farmer Nure Alam's cattle farm in Gobindapur, Naogaon, monitor temperature, humidity and ammonia round the clock, send alerts to his phone and let him switch fans and sprinklers remotely.
LivestockUnpublished research on steaks from four continents found some nutrients varied hundreds of times between samples, with both the best and the worst steaks coming from grassfed cattle.
Agtech startup Bug Bug has shrunk its AI acoustic pest detector to palm size and cut the full kit to about US$100, ahead of a year-long trial in Indonesian sugarcane.
AgrotechResearchers on the Earth Rover Program are adapting seismology to farmland: sensors time how fast a sound from a footstamp or hammer blow travels through the ground and turn it into a 3D map of soil layers and bulk density.
LivestockAt ILRI's Mazingira Centre in Nairobi, an Indian researcher screens local legume forages that could cut methane from sheep, while a Mozambican engineer builds a sensor dashboard to measure emission cuts from a manure biogas digester.
AgrotechFrench maker Agrisem fits Precision Planting's SmartFirmer to its Chief precision drill: a firmer in the seed furrow with temperature and NIR sensors that read soil moisture, temperature and crop residue as the seed goes in, so depth can be adjusted on the move.
AgrotechDanish sprayer maker Hardi has launched Auto Terrain Pro for its Twin Force and Delta Force booms, adding a rear-axle sensor that predicts boom movement and a damping cylinder in the suspension for a steadier spray pattern; it costs from €8,000.
Yara Growth Ventures has joined the second close of Stenon's Series B. The German startup's portable FarmLab measures plant-available nitrogen in the field and turns it into fertilizer advice.
AgrotechTwo years of measurements on four Flemish dairy farms found sensor readings of ammonia and methane did not differ significantly from standard reference methods, opening the way to long-term monitoring.
AgrotechA Purdue team has made low-cost sensors that measure the speed and direction of groundwater flow, using temperature-sensor circuit boards in 3D-printed housings that mimic soil and send data wirelessly over LoRa.
AgrotechAutonomous Pivot fits cameras, ground-penetrating radar, GPS and a rain gauge to centre-pivot irrigators so the machine maps soil moisture and crop health as it moves, now on trial at EMILI's farm in Manitoba.
AgrotechKansas State University researchers are field-testing the Insect Eavesdropper, which records the sounds and vibrations insects make inside plants and uses artificial intelligence to flag pests that scouting misses.
AgrotechA Harper Adams engineering project found that machine-learning models fed with acoustic, water, environmental and management data spotted early signs of disease in nursery pigs better than any single sensor; it won the 2026 Nick Bird Award.
