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Farmers & firefighters: Brazil’s ag sector works to stomp out fire threat with tech, collaboration
Brazilian farmers are working with the country’s fire authority to protect lands from devastating wildfires
AI
SP Ventures hits $50m milestone for third fund, after ‘watershed year’ in 2025
SP Ventures is attracting global investors into its third fund – a tough fund for venture capitalists
Can agtech fulfill its promise? World Agri-Tech explores opportunities, challenges for the future
The role agtech can play in the future of agriculture will largely depend on investor appetite, farm economics, and government policy
Heritable gets $5M for AI crop resilience as Africa emerges as agtech’s next frontier
Heritable Agriculture, the AI-powered crop improvement start‑up spun out of Google X, has secured a $4.98 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance climate‑resilient crops for smallholder farmers across Africa and other low- and...
Gates Foundation-funded pilot empowers East African coffee growers to manage climate change with Helios AI
Helios AI is helping East African coffee growers determine how to grow and when to sell their crops, through a Gates Foundation-funded pilot project
‘Google Maps for plant science,’ How Foray uses AI, biotech to develop new varieties
Foray Bioscience secured a commercial partnership with tissue culture chestnut nursery West Coast Chestnut, as the agtech company seeks funding to further scale up its AI and biotech technology
Exclusive news
AI meets plant breeding: Heritable Agriculture and KWS target feed trait breakthroughs
A new partnership between US-based Heritable Agriculture and German plant breeding giant KWS aims to accelerate genetic improvements in feed crops using AI-driven gene discovery – unlocking nutritional and sustainability gains across the agricultural...
Start-up profile
Regeno’s AI-powered platform aims to simplify farm assurance and compliance
Spun out of Founders Factory and Nesta’s venture builder programme, UK-based Regeno has pivoted from helping small farms access subsidies to tackling the broader challenge of compliance and record-keeping. CEO Sven Poppelman explains how the company’s...
PepsiCo’s Digital North Star: How the CPG giant uses AI, agtech to secure its potato supply chain
PepsiCo did not just spend 2025 launching the latest on-trend snacks and beverages, as the consumer packaged goods (CPG) giant doubled down on its technological investments and innovation — all in effort to secure its supply chain
Investing in Brazil: How COP30 put the country’s ag sector ‘on the map’ in 2025
COP30 was a major branding event for Brazil’s sustainable ag sector, fueling investor interest in regen ag, AI, and digital farming
From reactive to predictive: How Ceres AI aims to redefine risk intelligence in agriculture
Global investment in agri-AI has surged past $1 billion annually, but beyond the hype, US-based Ceres AI wants to prove that artificial intelligence can do more than monitor crops – it can predict risk, transform insurance and lending, and help farmers...
Why Bayer is partnering with Elaniti to unlock soil microbiome insights
Bayer’s Crop Science Division has teamed up with UK agritech start-up Elaniti to harness the power of soil biology and artificial intelligence. The goal? To help farmers improve crop performance and sustainability by decoding the hidden signals in the...
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit Mexico 2025
AI in agriculture: Why quality data is crucial to boosting adoption
AI is leaving a mark on agriculture, but the technology still has a ways to go before it is widely adopted
Bosch’s smart sprayer project promises precision weed control for UK cereal farmers
A project led by Bosch has successfully demonstrated how AI-powered sprayers can detect and treat Black-grass infestations with pinpoint accuracy – cutting herbicide use and boosting long-term weed control
Palantir unlocks supply chain efficiency for agrifood industry with AI
One of the fastest growing AI companies Palantir Technologies is untangling supply chain messiness, giving procurer and food producers actionable insight to drive their businesses
Source.ag secures $17.5M to scale applied AI for growers in CEA
Backed by strategic investors including Enza Zaden and Harvest House, Netherlands-based Source.ag’s latest funding round highlights demand for AI tools that deliver measurable, daily value to greenhouse operators
From dashboards to decision-makers: Will agentic AI usher in a new era?
As climate volatility and data complexity rise, agentic AI is emerging as a powerful tool to help agrifood businesses move from reactive to proactive decision-making. But scaling the technology comes with its own set of challenges
Prospecto’s AI-powered tractors aim to cut costs and boost sustainability in vineyards
Italian start-up Prospecto is embedding machine learning into agricultural machinery to help wine producers monitor grape clusters, foliage, and yields in real time – reducing input costs and enabling smarter, data-driven decisions
AI-optimised spraying: Corteva partners with AgZen to improve crop input efficiency
AgZen is helping growers save on crop inputs one drop at a time
Ecorobotix secures $150M to supercharge AI-powered crop protection
Precision sprayer Ecorobotix has raised $150 million across Series C and D rounds to accelerate its expansion into new markets, deepen product development, and advance its proprietary AI technology
Phagos secures approval to market personalized phage-based veterinary drugs in EU
French biotech raises €25m to scale AI-powered phage therapy
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit London 2025
AI-powered plant breeding: How NoMaze is predicting climate change impacts on crops
Crop breeders are using AI to predict climate change impacts on plants and speeding up the process for developing new traits
‘The AI to action offer,’ Syngenta doubles down on Taranis partnership to empower ag retailers
Can AI bring work-life balance to ag retailers and farmers?
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit London 2025
Inside Syngenta’s Cropwise: How the ag giant is using tech to help farmers
Ag giant Syngenta continues to evolve its digital platform with the help of AI and partnerships
AI for crop engineering: Corteva, Profluent Bio partner to develop gene editing tools
AI continues to find a home in the agriculture industry, as a partnership between an industry leader and a start-up will create a platform for developing sustainable and innovative crops
AI to the farm: Nine start-ups join UK accelerator to reinforce agri-food supply chains
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
AI-powered insights set to identify best vegetable varieties for growers worldwide
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds and Heritable Agriculture enter a collaboration to optimize commercial crop portfolios using AI
Will AI replace crop consultants? People are the ‘differentiator,’ Nutrien Ag says
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
Ag’s carbon market opportunity: How this start-up uses AI to analyse soil health
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
Dutch AI tools give new clarity to greenhouse growers
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
The AI tech giving Coca-Cola an ‘incredible opportunity’ to tackle emissions at source
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...
Regenerative farming project tackles lack of credible data
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
Cargill deepens investment in Brazil’s booming feed sector
US agribusiness giant is set to acquire 100% of the operations of a Brazilian animal nutrition company
Aspen Ideas Festival panel discusses persistent hurdles to agtech adoption
S2G Investments, Kula Bio, GX Agriculture, and Breakthrough Energy representatives discussed how to enable agtech adoption, creating a more sustainable sector in the process
PLF pioneer SoundTalks plots growth after Boehringer distribution partnership winds down
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
AI for crop optimization: BASF, Solinftec discuss tech at World Agri-Tech South America Summit
Companies from BASF to Solinftec are using AI to create on-farm efficiencies, reducing the dependence on fertilizers and increasing crop yields
Upskilling workers ‘essential’ to realise benefits of AI-driven farming, report says
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...
Commercializing phages: Inside three pioneering companies
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
When AGI meets agtech: The convergence that changes everything
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...
Has ESG momentum slowed amid geopolitical disruption?
‘Investors are becoming more discerning, not less committed’
Harnessing enzymes to tackle livestock methane: Hoofprint Biome’s bold bet on microbiome innovation
Methane busting startup closed $15m Series A round late last month
WATCH: Syngenta’s Feroz Sheikh discusses AI’s improvements
AI products have become increasingly use-case focused over the last 12 months, believes Feroz Sheikh, chief information and digital officer at Syngenta Group.
WATCH: Enko’s Tom Meade explains how AI can make better ag biologicals
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.
Overheard at World Agri-Tech: 8 talking points for the sector to ponder
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit hit San Francisco last week. Here’s some topics that stood out.
How AI healthcare advancements are accelerating innovation in ag
Thanks to rapid recent progress, AI technologies originally developed for healthcare are finding applications in agriculture.
$1b global package wants to boost weather services for farmers in impoverished regions
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.
Does TIME’s best invention list mark a shift in how the world views agtech?
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?
Meet the 14 AgTech start-ups set to take centre stage at World Agri-Tech MEASA
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.
What does Bowery’s closure tell us about the future of vertical farming?
Bowery Farming may not be the last vertical farming company to fail before the sector begins a period of more stable scaling and growth.
Watch: Farms are crying out for innovation, says UK-Agri-Tech Centre CEO
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.