AgriTech - Articles, Stories & Interviews
5 Innovative Ways Farmers Are Turning By-Products Into Functional Beverages
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Functional beverages — drinks where health benefits are the primary selling point — may be an optimal way to reuse Agricultural by-products. Farmers around the globe are already turning by-products into functional drinks in several ways.
How Grow Lighting Impacts Terpene and Flavor Profiles
Proper lighting plays a critical role in shaping terpene production and flavor profiles, two key factors that determine the quality, potency, and overall market value of the final product.
Growing Tomorrow: Reducing Hunger through Controlled Environment Agriculture
Developments in science and technology have enabled farmers to produce more and more, but today's food producers face many challenges: unpredictable weather, irrigation issues, soil degradation, and pollution.
Smarter seeds, slower systems: Why innovation won’t matter without regulatory reform
From drought-tolerant maize to flood-resistant rice, improved seeds are helping farmers maintain yields in increasingly hostile environments. But while the science has advanced, the systems around it have not.
Transforming Crop Insurance: How the SWITCH Model is Revolutionizing Hail Damage Assessment
Launched in 2021, the Severe Weather Induced Trends of Crop Health (SWITCH) model leverages remote sensing and proprietary Farmers Edge data models to create detailed, field-level maps of hail damage.
Not Your Average Ag Pest, Why Mosquitoes Deserve a Spot on the Radar
With the 2025 mosquito season upon us, we believe it’s important to spotlight the risks these pests pose to human health and overall agricultural productivity. Their expanding habitat range, driven largely in part by climate change, makes it clear: awareness is critical.
Mitigating 6 Financial Risks of Implementing New Farming Technology
Farmers should view agri-tech as a long-term investment that supports growth over time, not a quick fix for short-term challenges. Smart technology adoption starts with careful planning, honest budgeting and asking the right questions before purchasing.
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What the Agricultural Industry Should Know About the Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act
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The Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act is a bipartisan solution to enhance the protection of agricultural information and promote robust cybersecurity measures. Its goal is to build a resilient food system capable of withstanding evolving farm and food industry cyber threats.
Intelligent Philips LED solution helps Deliflor Hoogveld significantly improve its chrysanthemum cutting production
Otto van Tuijl from Deliflor Hoogveld enthusiastically explains how the transition to full LED with Philips GreenPower toplighting compact and the Philips GrowWise control system has significantly improved their chrysanthemum cutting production process.
AI Comes to Food Supply Chain Compliance: Automation Targets One of the Sector's Most Challenging Bottlenecks
New tools like AI-based document scanners are now being implemented to help manage the growing administrative burden of meeting growing compliance demands. These tools automatically extract compliance data from documents, eliminating the need for manual entry and reviews.
AgriTech - News Headlines
Verinomics and Pinnacle Seed Form Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Innovation in Leafy Greens
The partnership leverages Pinnacle Seed's extensive germplasm resources and market expertise alongside Verinomics' advanced genomic-assisted breeding (Genova™) and transgene-free gene editing (Genesis™) capabilities, with the commercial launch of initial disease-resistant leafy green varieties expected in 2026.
Gardin Raises $4.5M to Advance Precision Agriculture with Breakthrough Photosynthesis Sensor & AI Platform to Monitor Greenhouse Crop Health at Scale, in Real Time
Gardin Agritech has raised a $4.5M Seed 2 financing round led by Navus Ventures with participation from new investor Oxford Innovation Finance as well as existing investors LDV Capital, MMC Ventures, Seedcamp, Alchimia Investments and angel investors.
igus Wins American Society of Mechanical Engineers Award for Groundbreaking e-loop Cable Management System
e-loop Named Winner of Prestigious ASME Annual Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award
MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Announces Partnership with CNH
CNH will provide MSU with a New Holland T6.180 Methane tractor, the world's first 100% methane-powered production tractor, for use in educational and research initiatives.
FRESH PRODUCE SUPPLY CHAIN EXPERT TO ACCELERATE COMMERCIAL GROWTH OF THREE AGRI-TECH BUSINESSES
Doreen Spikings, chief operating and commercial officer at B-Hive Innovations, HarvestEye and RootExtracts
AgriTech - Featured Product
Elmo Motion Control - The Platinum Line, a new era in servo control
Significantly enhanced servo performance, higher EtherCAT networking precision, richer servo operation capabilities, more feedback options, and certified smart Functional Safety. Elmo's industry-leading Platinum line of servo drives provides faster and more enhanced servo performance with wider bandwidth, higher resolutions, and advanced control for better results. Platinum drives offer precise EtherCAT networking, faster cycling, high synchronization, negligible jitters, and near-zero latency. They are fully synchronized to the servo loops and feature-rich feedback support, up to three feedbacks simultaneously (with two absolute encoders working simultaneously). The Platinum Line includes one of the world's smallest Functional Safety, and FSoE-certified servo drives with unique SIL capabilities.
AgriTech - Featured Company
Elmo Motion Control Ltd.
Elmo has been a motion control technology leader for over 35 years, with millions of servo drives working 24/7 worldwide. Elmo offers complete motion control solutions from design to delivery of cutting-edge servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, and integrated servo motors. All solutions can be customized and configured using Elmo's proprietary advanced and easy-to-use software tools for any machine in any industry, such as semiconductors, lasers, robots, life sciences, industrial automation, AGV, and more. The company employs more than 350 personnel with headquarters in Israel and offices in the United States, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Singapore, and an additional manufacturing facility in Poland. Elmo has a worldwide distribution network. By advancing motion control with state-of-the-art technology, Elmo makes smart machines even smarter. As of 2022, Elmo is a Bosch Rexroth company.
