Why Bayer is separating glyphosate from its innovation portfolio
The launch of Ruveon reflects the changing realities of crop protection: glyphosate remains indispensable to farmers, but growing competition, legal risks and the rise of biologicals demand a different business model.
The St Louis-based business, which remains part of Bayer, will oversee all aspects of the company’s US glyphosate operations, including pricing, production, logistics and go-to-market strategy. The move forms part of Bayer Crop Science’s five-year restructuring plan and comes at a pivotal moment for the glyphosate market.
Syngenta appoints Hengde Qin as CEO as IPO ambitions sharpen focus on execution
Syngenta has named insider Hengde Qin as its next CEO, a move that signals continuity and operational discipline, while aligning closely with the company’s longer-term ambition to list in Hong Kong.
Syngenta Group has appointed Hengde Qin as chief executive officer, effective August 1, 2026, following what the company described as a “thorough nomination and succession process.”
Qin, currently chief operating officer and head of seeds, will succeed Jeff Rowe, who will remain in the role until the transition before returning to the United States from Syngenta Group’s global headquarters in Basel after nearly a decade with the company.
Agtech VC deal count collapsed in H1 2026 — rebound unlikely this year
AI hype and automation interest was not enough to buoy agtech investments in the first half of 2026.
A 2026 rebound in venture capital (VC) investments in the broadly defined agtech sector became increasingly unlikely as market research firm PitchBook released data showing further investor pushback in the sector and new investment lows.
Venture capitalists penned 107 deals in agtech in Q2 2026, and 263 deals in the first half (H1) of the year for a total of $2.4 billion invested in the sector, PitchBook reported in a First Look report. In Q2 2026, “quarterly deal count has collapsed to the lowest level in the visible series,” PitchBook stated in the report.
CNH’s AI journey: How the OEM works with dealers to keep machines up and running
CNH’s AI Tech Assistant gains a foothold across the ag machinery maker’s dealer network at a time when its partners need some support
AI success is all about metrics — adoption and engagement metrics, specifically. And original equipment manufacturer (OEM) CNH Industrial might have cracked the code on adoption with its AI assistant that is helping dealers repair farmers’ machines quickly and efficiently.
Today, CNH’s AI Tech Assistant has over a million global interactions with 30,000 active users, including 72% adoption across the OEM’s dealer network, after launching the service in January 2025. The OEM has made AI a key innovation priority for its $755 million agriculture R&D budget.
Finance is the missing piece in regenerative agriculture, says HowGood’s Ethan Soloviev
The sustainability intelligence platform’s chief innovation officer argues regenerative agriculture has largely proven itself. The challenge now is not defining it but unlocking much greater flows of capital to farmers through collaboration between banks, insurers, food companies and local partners
The regenerative agriculture industry has spent years debating definitions, metrics and environmental outcomes.
According to Ethan Soloviev, co-creator of Regen House and chief innovation officer at sustainability intelligence platform HowGood, the conversation now needs to move on.
Does Corteva’s Moa deal offer glimpse of post-split innovation strategy?
As Corteva prepares to separate its Seeds and Crop Protection businesses, a new herbicide discovery partnership suggests the future standalone crop-protection company will increasingly combine external innovation with its in-house R&D capabilities
Corteva has struck a multi-year R&D collaboration with UK agri-tech company Moa Technology to accelerate the discovery of novel herbicides, offering an early indication of how the company’s future standalone Crop Protection business may approach innovation following its planned demerger.
Cash and brands: The two missing ingredients for regenerative agriculture to scale?
Two major Wildfarmed partnerships – one with Lloyds Banking Group and another with Nestlé’s KitKat brand – point to a simple reality for regenerative agriculture.
If the movement is to move beyond niche adoption, farmers must be paid for delivering environmental outcomes, and regenerative produce must find a route into mainstream consumer brands via partnerships with household names
Regenerative farming may still be far from the dominant model, but it is moving into the agricultural mainstream, with Barclays research showing that four in five UK farmers are either adopting or considering regenerative practices.
Google-backed AI company Cropin launches agentic platform, prepares for Series E round
The AI market is focusing more on enterprise customers and sector-specific insights and workflows — creating an opening for agrifood data and AI company Cropin
Building on over 15 years of insights across 103 countries, agriculture and food data company Cropin revealed the next iteration of its capabilities — an agentic AI platform that can help farmers and agrifood stakeholders access real-time insights to make informed business decisions, whether related to growing, sourcing, or sustainability.
Founded in 2010, Cropin provides business-to-business (B2B) data and software capabilities to agrifood companies, built on insights from 1 billion acres globally, 400 crops, and 10,000 varieties, Krishna Kumar, founder and CEO of the company, told AgNavigator.
Blue food, big challenges: Inside the problems aquaculture can no longer afford to ignore
The aquaculture sector is growing faster than almost any other food production system in the world. But behind the growth figures lies a set of challenges the industry can no longer afford to defer — on energy, feed quality, animal welfare and regulation
Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing food production sectors in the world – and one of the most scrutinised.
“We’ve been harvesting 90 million tons of fish globally for the last 30 years and it hasn’t collapsed at all. Aquaculture has boomed to 100 million this year. And fisheries are still where they were. So that whole story about aquaculture growth would lead to overfishing — it’s rubbish. It’s not true. And we’ve got evidence in spades to show that,” said Dr Brett Glencross, Technical Director of IFFO.
However, as global demand for protein continues to rise and wild fish stocks face mounting pressure, the industry finds itself at a defining moment.
Brazil fuels next stage of ag biological innovation – from microbes to peptides
Brazil provides an ideal environment for the research and development of biological-based crop inputs, influencing go-to-market strategies for start-ups and major ag suppliers
The biological boom in Brazil does not show signs of abating anytime soon, with major ag suppliers and innovative start-ups building their go-to-market strategy around and in the agricultural powerhouse, as a panel of industry experts shared during the 2026 World Agri-Tech event in São Paulo.
On June 23, SP Ventures Managing Partner, Francisco Jardim, led a discussion about the unique opportunities and challenges for biologicals in Brazil in a panel discussion, consisting of representatives from Corteva, Micropep, and Invaio Sciences.
