Agriculture
Massey Ferguson Enters ITL Supply Partnership for Compact Tractors
AGCO announced on September 30, 2026 that its Massey Ferguson brand has entered a strategic supply partnership with International Tractors Limited (ITL) to introduce a new value-oriented range of compact tractors starting from 20 hp. The initial rollout is planned…
Metal Nanoparticles Could Transform Crop Protection
Protecting plants from diseases and pests is a massive global business worth $83.3B in 2025, growing at a 5% CAGR. Without effective crop protection, losses to pests and diseases would place additional pressure on food supplies, prices, and global food…
Jonathan Schramm
The Technologies Turning Food Waste Into an Opportunity
As food production and related supply chains evolved from local farmers’ markets to advanced logistics that move goods across half the world into large supermarkets, food waste increased, even with refrigeration. This is not only a financial loss or the…
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How Extended Reality Could Transform Precision Farming
Modern farms can collect more information than ever before. Sensors monitor soil moisture, cameras identify crop stress, positioning systems guide machinery, and artificial intelligence converts raw observations into predictions. Yet much of this intelligence still reaches farmers through dashboards that…
Bayer, Neste Lock In Pact to Expand Winter Canola Biofuel Feedstock
Bayer and Neste have finalized a commercial agreement to jointly scale Bayer’s newgold winter canola as a feedstock for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, the companies announced on September 9, 2026, in a release datelined Monheim, Germany, and St.…
Bunge Agrees to Sell Two Brazilian Sugarcane Mills to COFCO International
Bunge Global SA announced on September 1, 2026 that it has entered into an agreement to sell its two sugarcane mills in Brazil to COFCO International. The mills, Rio Vermelho and Nova Unialco, are located in the municipalities of Junqueirópolis…
Why Agriculture Could Be AI’s Biggest Productivity Winner
When discussing AI’s impact on the economy, public discussion tends to focus on IT-related jobs (programming, digital artists, etc.), white-collar professions (lawyers, doctors), or scientific research. However, this might be missing important applications that will have transformative effects on entire…
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AGCO Opens Expanded Parts Distribution Center in Visalia
AGCO will open a new, expanded Parts Distribution Center in Visalia, California, on September 1, 2026, the Duluth, Georgia-based company announced on August 31, 2026. The 115,000-square-foot facility more than doubles the size of AGCO’s operation in the region and…
Trump Hints at Cannabis Rescheduling as Opioid Crisis Deepens
In a strategic development that could reshape the United States’ drug policy, President Donald Trump has confirmed that his administration is “looking very strongly” at rescheduling cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance. Speaking from the…
Top 5 Vertical Farming Startups Thriving in (2026)
We have come a long way since the first agricultural revolution, which occurred around 10,000 BC, marking the transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture. Over time, irrigation, fertilizers, and crop rotation were introduced to advance the field, which…
Corteva (CTVA): Building The New Generation Of Farming
Farming: The Overlooked Frontier in Tech Some sectors of the economy attract more attention than others. For example, IT, semiconductors, and tech stocks are remarkably popular with investors due to the sector’s extraordinary growth in the past 3 decades. On…
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Future-Proofing Crops: Can Gene Editing Tackle Food Security?
Better Agriculture Needed As our civilization faces the conjunction of rising population and climate instability, the question of food security is rising back to the forefront of the important issues to tackle. Adding to this risk, many others are adding…
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Are Agrivoltaics Gaining Public Support? Survey Says Yes
Solar Power vs Farmland: How Agrivoltaics Offers a Solution At its core, farming and other forms of land cultivation are harvesting the energy of the sun through plants, to turn it into food and other useful organic products like wool,…
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John Deere (DE): Driving the High-Tech Transformation of Agriculture
Robots And AI Taking Over Farming Discussing technologies like satellite geolocalization, 5G networking, autonomous vehicles, and robotics, investors tend to think of companies like Tesla or Palantir. However, these technologies have applications beyond the automotive and defense sectors, and one…
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New PM2 Gene Discovery by Aurora Cannabis Enhances Disease Resistance
Cannabis Growth Cannabis has been a booming industry in the USA and many other countries in the past decade. This followed a slow, but steady trend toward full legalization, even if doing so at the US federal level of what…
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