CNH on agtech adoption: Farmer survey underscores why ROI is essential
CNH customers are using precision ag and AI capabilities, but hold-outs are citing costs as a key adoption barrier
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Europe’s drought divide: Farmers bet on resilience over relief
As drought grips Europe, farming groups are warning of food supply risks and mounting crop losses. But while some are demanding greater financial support, others are calling for long-term investment in reservoirs, irrigation, water management and...
How Syngenta is using AI to reinvent agricultural innovation
Artificial intelligence could help cut years from the development of new crop protection products while enabling safer, more targeted solutions that better reflect farmers’ needs, according to leading Syngenta researchers. However, the company insists AI...
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
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
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Inside the fruit: How Orbem is using AI-powered MRI to cut food waste, transform agriculture
German start-up Orbem raised €55.5 million to expand its AI-powered MRI technology from poultry into fruit and vegetables. The company is using industrial-scale MRI scanning to detect quality issues inside produce, reduce food waste and build what it...
Dogtooth lands £14m as investors bet on embodied AI’s future in farming
UK-based Dogtooth Technologies has secured more than £14 million in growth funding to expand deployment of its robotic harvesting systems, hailing it a milestone for the wider adoption of “embodied AI” in agriculture
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Can AI disrupt the seed giants? The start-up betting on climate-resilient crops
Two biologists who met in a university book club are using AI to tackle one of agriculture’s biggest challenges: developing climate-resilient crops faster and cheaper than traditional breeding programmes. With partnerships already in place and ambitions...
AI maps slug hotspots as £2.6m SLIMERS project enters final phase
A UK-wide research initiative is combining predictive mapping, AI imaging and precision biology to help farmers target slugs more effectively, and cut reliance on pellets, as it moves into its final year of field trials
Anterra raises $100m for Fund III as AI appetite in agriculture defies investment downturn
While funding remains subdued, specialist investor Anterra Capital says demand for AI-driven innovation in food and agriculture is accelerating, positioning the sector for what it calls its “most attractive deployment moment in twelve years”
SWARM Engineering raises $10M to bring real-time AI decision-making to agri-food operations
Decision intelligence start-up says domain-trained AI can compress planning cycles from days to minutes, helping agri-food operators act faster in increasingly volatile markets
AI’s hidden footprint: UN warns of soaring resource demands – but agribusiness backs net gains in the field
A new UN report delivers stark projections for AI’s land, water and energy use by 2030. Yet major agribusinesses such as Syngenta insist the technology’s environmental “cost” will be dwarfed by the sustainability gains it enables on farm
Improving livestock management with AI: Ever.Ag expands agentic feature Everett
Commodity software company Ever.Ag continues to deliver on its AI strategy — powered by in-house developments and strategic acquisitions
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Can AI power Brazil’s next stage of ag growth?
Can AI bring clarity to Brazil’s massive and complicated agriculture sector?
‘From science project to scalable platform’: Cibus Capital on why Physical AI is reshaping investment
As capital discipline tightens across agtech, Cibus Capital’s Archie Burgess argues that a new wave of Physical AI – combining robotics, automation and adaptive intelligence – is moving beyond hype to deliver real on-farm returns, reshaping both investor...
AI-based agronomy: Advanced Agrilytics releases software to help farmers make informed growing decisions
Can AI turn bad acres into productive ones?
AI and operational agility set to reshape agriculture trading, McKinsey analysis shows
Agricultural commodity trading is entering a new phase defined by volatility, digital competition and the growing influence of AI-driven decision-making, according to new analysis from McKinsey & Company
Munters launches Speria brand as early deployments deliver measurable gains in livestock performance
Munters FoodTech is rolling out its new commercial Speria brand, with early deployments already showing improvements in feed efficiency, mortality and emissions – signalling a shift toward data‑driven optimisation in animal production
AI in Brazil’s ag sector: The Yield Lab Latam taps into opportunity with forthcoming fund
Brazilian farmers’ reliance on WhatsApp is laying the ground work for an AI agricultural revolution in the country
USDA signs $300m agreement with Palantir to boost farm security with AI
AI company Palantir makes further in-roads in the agriculture sector and continues its works with the USDA
Syngenta turns to TetraScience to eliminate data silos for crop protection R&D
The crop protection giant is reinforcing its R&D pipeline by investing in the underlying technologies that support researchers
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From AI to quantum computing: Syngenta discusses digital ag strategy at World Agri-Tech
The seed and crop protection company is tackling digital ag from multiple angles – helping farmers plan their crop with Cropwise and bolstering its R&D efforts with quantum computing and AI
‘Unicorn ambition, global impact’: Heritable Ag’s dual mission to accelerate crop innovation
Brad Zamft says that AI‑accelerated crop breeding can slash R&D timelines and speed development of new varieties – and that building a scalable, breakthrough, profitable agriculture business is the fastest path to maximising impact
Agentic AI in the spotlight at World Agri‑Tech as industry grapples with new power dynamics
At San Francisco’s flagship ag innovation summit, excitement over agentic AI mixed with urgency around data quality, decision intelligence, and the shifting role of human expertise
Halter raises NZD $377m to drive global expansion as virtual fencing demand surges
New Zealand’s AI-enabled livestock tech unicorn hits US$2bn valuation and prepares for major UK, Ireland and South America launch
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Managing commodity volatility: Helios AI expands insights platform to help buyers
Commodity insights platform provider Helios AI is helping buyers make sense of supply chain volatility, whether it is climate change or geopolitical impacts
AI spraying start-up AgZen closes $10m Series B round with Syngenta’s support
AgZen’s commercial scale up continues, with the AI-based precision spraying company anticipating to cover 2 million acres in 2026 across three continents
Amatera banks €6M to turbo‑charge AI‑powered crop breeding
Paris‑based start-up Amatera has raised €6 million to accelerate its high‑throughput, cell‑level breeding platform, aiming to slash the time and cost of developing climate‑resilient crop varieties
Resurrect Bio brings plant immunity back to life with AI‑driven gene editing
UK start‑up claims competitive edge in race for sustainable crop protection as it accelerates gene‑edited traits for soy, corn, wheat, potato, tomato, spinach – and soon cotton and canola
The next five years will eclipse the last 25: Steve McLean on agriculture’s defining decade
New UK Agri-Tech Centre CEO Steve McLean says the industry is entering a defining period that demands bigger thinking, harder commercial focus, and technologies proven on real farms, not just in labs
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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
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
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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...
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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...
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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