AgTech Digest: Weekly Agriculture Technology News & Deals
by iGrowNews · 130 episodes
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AgTech Digest is a weekly ten-minute briefing on the deals, funding rounds, acquisitions, product launches and policy moves shaping agriculture technology. Every Friday: who raised, who bought whom, which inputs and machines cleared regulators, and what it means for growers, input companies and investors, drawn from the iGrowNews newsletter and database. Produced by iGrowNews. Narrated with an AI voice from a human-edited script.
Latest episodes
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11 min
USDA opened an $8 billion farm fuel relief program with no crop insurance requirement
Four food-chain companies changed hands in seven days — and Washington put $8 billion on the table for farmers' fuel bills, with no crop insurance requirement attached.The USDA's n…
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11 min
Greeneye cut non-residual herbicide use 81% across 500,000 acres and is now opening in Kansas
A decarbonization fund just bought the business of baling corn stover — and crop residue stopped being a by-product.Boston-based Ara Partners acquired a majority interest in Pacifi…
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11 min
Twenty Italian biomethane plants will each process up to 100,000 tonnes of farm waste a year
Farm waste just became a bankable asset class — and a robotic bee startup got funded by the orchards that will use it.Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners made the first investment f…
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11 min
Corteva's seed business just spun out as Vylor with a $19 billion crop pipeline
A $19 billion seed pipeline just walked out of Corteva and started trading on its own.Corteva completed the spin-off of its seed and genetics business on October 1, and it now trad…
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13 min
A nuclear developer priced at $2.4B on Nasdaq in a week when three firms sold divisions
Three companies sold divisions, two merged into one, and the only capital moving at scale was debt — except for the reactor developer that walked onto Nasdaq at a $2.4 billion pre-…
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BASF hired four banks to float an ag unit with $11.1 billion in annual sales
In one week, two of the largest names in crop inputs decided they are worth more in pieces.Corteva's board approved distributing its seed operating segment into a new independent,…
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11 min
The largest farm carbon deal ever signed covers 4.45 million tonnes across Kazakhstan
Agricultural carbon just stopped being a pilot project: two record offtakes landed in the same week, one of them 4.45 million tonnes.Agreena signed a seven-year agreement to sell 4…
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10 min
Seaweed feed cuts cattle methane by up to 77%, and Japanese investors just funded it
A seaweed additive that cuts cattle methane by 49–77% just took its first venture cheque — in the same week a single Brazilian sugarcane mill changed hands for $148 million.Adecoag…
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12 min
The U.S. cattle herd is at its lowest level since 1951, and investors just put $27M behind the platform tracki…
The U.S. cattle herd is at its lowest level since 1951 — and investors just put $27 million behind the platform tracking what's left of it.Consolidation defined the week. CropX Tec…
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10 min
Mérieux NutriSciences, GrubMarket, Ever After Foods, SalMar, Mafix, Computomics, Above Food Ingredients, Farm…
A salmon farmer just got cleared to raise half a billion dollars in green bonds — collateralised, effectively, by 300,900 tons of fish.Norway's Financial Supervisory Authority appr…
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10 min
EW Group, Olmix, Ranchbot, Netafim, Varda Foundation, USDA, BASF Agricultural Solutions, Zoetis
Citrus greening has wiped out 95% of Florida's citrus production — and this week the EPA registered an RNA-based, non-GMO therapy to fight back.The week's lead deal came out of Eur…
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14 min
Corteva, AGCO, Nutrien, Bayer, Biome Makers, Inari Agriculture, FMC, Terion, Ginkgo Bioworks, Semios, CIBO Tec…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest developments in AgTech — the latest consolidation analysis revealing where M&A is…
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14 min
Corteva, Nutrien, AGCO, AppHarvest, Benson Hill, Invaio Sciences, Semios, Pessl Instruments, Rothamsted Resear…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech — the data ownership question and why farm data is becoming a p…
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14 min
Corteva, Nutrien, AGCO, AppHarvest, Benson Hill, Invaio Sciences, Semios, Pessl Instruments, Rothamsted Resear…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech — the data ownership question and why farm data is becoming a p…
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25 min
CasClear, CRISPR, and AI in Soybean Genetics: New AgTech Frontiers - Interview with Matt Begemann Interview
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyUnlock the future of agtech and CRISPR with this deep dive into the world of soybean innovation and next-gen crop defense! Matt Begeman, a key voice f…
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12 min
Groupe Flore, Groupe Thomas Plants, Tecnosem, Kimitec, DVC Partners, Royal Berry, Dutch Berries, Rize, BNP Par…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech — tariffs adding 8 to 23% to agricultural hardware costs and sp…
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12 min
Bayer, Pivot Bio, John Deere, Nutrien, Ceres, AGCO, Trimble, Headwall Photonics, Agremo, Scoular
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech — the H1 2026 state of play with $1.27 billion across 89 deals,…
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13 min
Tropic, Rahan Meristem, Reservoir, Contain, Eurofins Agro Testing, Terraxy, Wa'ed Ventures, Africa Finance Cor…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech — Tropic acquires Rahan Meristem to become the first fully inte…
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13 min
Tropic, Rahan Meristem, Reservoir, Contain, BASF, ADAMA, Burro, Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, McDonald's, McCain,…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech — Tropic acquires Rahan Meristem to become the first fully inte…
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13 min
CIBO Technologies, Indigo Ag, Flagship Pioneering, Terion, Ingredion, Nutrien, Sand County Foundation, Microso…
📺 Watch on YouTube and SpotifyWelcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring Flagship Pioneering's merger of CIBO Technologies an…