News and Analysis on Global Agri-Tech Innovation, Investment and Regulation
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
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
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 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
COP30 was a major branding event for Brazil’s sustainable ag sector, fueling investor interest in regen ag, AI, and digital farming
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...
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 is leaving a mark on agriculture, but the technology still has a ways to go before it is widely adopted
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
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
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
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
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
AgZen is helping growers save on crop inputs one drop at a time
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
French biotech raises €25m to scale AI-powered phage therapy
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit London 2025
Crop breeders are using AI to predict climate change impacts on plants and speeding up the process for developing new traits
Can AI bring work-life balance to ag retailers and farmers?
World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit London 2025
Ag giant Syngenta continues to evolve its digital platform with the help of AI and partnerships
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
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.