AgTech Digest

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! This is episode one hundred of AgTech Digest — and we're marking the milestone with a packed week. In today's episode, we cover global crop trait developments and the rise of breeding factories, two nine-figure deals from FMC and SKK Holdings, Corteva naming its Vylor genetics spinoff, Bayer and bp's camelina biofuel alliance, PepsiCo's fert...

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring an analysis of 2025 precision ag funding that reveals a market split between late-stage winners and mid-stage pressure, BTG Pactual TIG's record $1.24 billion Latin American reforestation fund, Halter's world-first satellite-connected cattle collars, Ever. Ag's Everett...

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring Blake Croegaert of Verdant Partners on the AgTech M&A reset and why 2027 is the restart year, the USDA's $300 million Palantir partnership to modernize farm services, Oman's $240 million food security portfolio, Premier Tech's entry into controlled environment agric...

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify iGrow News - 2025 Precision Ag Intelligence Report - https://igrownews.com/precision Episode Description What shook up the world of precision agriculture in 2025? In this exclusive deep dive, Harry Duran sits down with Sepehr Achard, fellow co-founder of iGrow News, to explore the striking trends and surprising signals from the just-released 2025 Precision Ag Intell...

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring the 2025 Precision Agriculture Intelligence Report on $668 million in funding and the autonomous stack race, Jon Trask of Dimitra on AI tools for smallholder farmers and EUDR compliance, Fondaction and Nestle's regenerative agriculture commitments, Agriodor's 15 million...

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring a patent landscape analysis that reveals who really owns precision agriculture's future, Steve Mantle on Innov8.ag's Harvest Replay labor intelligence platform, two historic herbicide launches from Syngenta and FMC, Fieldwork Robotics raising 3 million pounds for autono...

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Episode Description In this episode of AgTech Digest, we dive deep into the evolving landscape of food security and agricultural innovation in the Gulf region. Our guest, Giovanni Angiolini—entrepreneur, consultant, and representative of Dutch Greenhouse Delta—offers a firsthand look at the strategic shifts taking place as regional instability reshapes priorities. G...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring an analysis of how capital and consolidation are dividing the global crop sector, Rob Eddy on horticulture education for greenhouse builders, a $45 million NSF research award for NDSU, DENSO's agri-food acquisition, LettUs Grow's commercial-scale vitamin B12 breakthrough, and CIBO Technologies partner...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring eleven funding rounds totaling $323 million and a 2026 year-to-date total of $946 million, Jim Kras on Edible Garden's shift into finished goods and ready-to-drink products, Halter's $220 million Series E for virtual fencing, Ecorobotix's $50 million US manufacturing pledge, and Volta Greentech's Euro...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring the farm labor crisis accelerating a $400 million autonomous technology wave, Julia Wilkinson on capital allocation for agriculture as foundational infrastructure, Solugen's $50 million organic nitrogen fertilizer raise, Syngenta's $130 million BioSTaR research center opening, Fresh Del Monte's $285 m...

In this bonus episode of AgTech Digest, Sepehr Achard sits down with Afzal Hussain Mohammed Nakheeb , the visionary founder and head of strategy at T57. Together, they embark on a thoughtful journey through the complex world of food security, agtech innovation, and the hidden challenges faced by farmers around the globe. Discover why, despite producing more food than required, hundreds of millions...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring the ag-biotech sector's shift from code to factory infrastructure, Tropic's $105 million Series C for gene-edited crop scaling, Living Models' AI platform interpreting plant DNA, KOMO Biosciences and Syngenta's maize genome partnership, and the sobering reality of two industry bankruptcies. Let's get...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring February's industry state of play with over $91.4 million in disclosed funding, a conversation on dynamic LED lighting and the future of AI-integrated greenhouse systems, Zoetis' $160 million animal genomics acquisition, PlasmaLeap's decentralized fertilizer funding, AgriPass autonomous cultivation ro...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring an analysis of CEA's shift toward industrial normalization, a conversation with Giovanni Angiolini on GCC food security and patient capital, a $300 million US agricultural credit program, herbicide resistance breakthroughs from FMC, genome editing licensing from Pairwise, and the Bayer and John Deere...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring capital concentration trends across staple crops and resilience-driven breeding since January 2025, major funding rounds for Latin American agtech and Middle Eastern infrastructure, gene-editing approvals in France and Brazil, and an interview with T57 founder Afzal Hussain Mohammed Nakheeb on using A...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring Europe's AgTech market realignment with over seven hundred sixty-five million euros deployed since January, corporate restructuring initiatives, and autonomous robotics advancements including FarmX's acquisition of Amos Power and Upside Robotics' seven point five million dollar raise. Let's get sta...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring GrubMarket's fifty million dollar raise at a four point five billion dollar valuation, Carbon Robotics' groundbreaking Large Plant Model trained on one hundred fifty million plants, and greenhouse decarbonization initiatives advancing energy transition in controlled-environment agriculture. Let's g...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring controlled-environment agriculture market maturity analysis revealing crop concentration challenges, Bayer's forty-five plus million Canadian dollar canola research investment, and strategic acquisitions advancing potato seed breeding and biological inputs platforms. Let's get started! Here’s a Qui...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring Israeli agriculture market analysis revealing capital concentration and export focus, Hydrosat's sixty million dollar satellite expansion, and biological innovation partnerships driving protein-based crop protection and insect probiotics forward. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring carbon market evolution beyond credit volumes, the divergence between regenerative agriculture and carbon farming, and controlled environment agriculture's shift toward operational efficiency. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: Market Analysis: Carbon markets evo...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring market corrections and bankruptcies revealing structural challenges, biological crop protection innovations from Micropep Technologies, and strategic partnerships advancing fungicide development and sustainable farming practices. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring strategic partnerships in crop protection, six million euro funding for autonomous machinery, and groundbreaking peptide-based biological solutions alongside major industry restructuring. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: ADAMA & BASF Strategic Fungicide Par...

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Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring electric agricultural rovers and open-source data platforms, EPA-approved biofungicides and bio-based nutrition systems, and cutting-edge CEA technologies including humanoid robotics and dynamic LED lighting systems. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: AgTech: Ele...

Welcome back, listeners! In today's episode, we'll dive into the latest strides in AgTech, featuring AI-driven crop management platforms, major funding rounds for climate-smart agriculture, strategic plant science rebrands, and controlled environment agriculture expansions. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: Plant Science: AI-driven gene-editing collaborations,...