Last spring Indigo launched their first product dedicated to helping farmers grow food and fiber in a sustainable manner. Now the company is releasing preliminary data from Indigo Cotton, a seat treatment based on naturally occurring in-plant microbes. The product was developed to improve water efficiency while offering high yields during water stress. Grower data from West Texas and Texas … Read More
Syngenta To Use NRGene Software for Crop Breeding
Syngenta has chosen genomics big data company NRGene to evaluate and accelerate trait discovery. Their cloud-based GenoMAGIC software package will make trait mapping more efficient, thanks to volumes of genomic data that allow researchers to identify brand sequence polymorphisms and holotypes. The new process is faster and more cost effective, since breeders can easily relate genomic sequences with beneficial traits. … Read More
Buzz About Pollinators at #PotatoExpo
Chuck Zimmerman found Becky Langer of Bayer‘s Feed a Bee program and M. Vincent Restucci from R.D. Offutt Company buzzing with excitement at the the 2017 Potato Expo in San Fransisco, California. The two forces have joined together on behalf of pollinators– and been quite successful too. R.D. Offutt Company made a commitment to helping pollinators in 2015. They joined … Read More
DJI Introduces New Aerial Tech Products
This week’s CES event in Las Vegas was the perfect time for unmanned aerial technology company DJI to introduce two new products– an aerial mapping app and a limited edition Phantom 4 drone. They also debuted a prototype for an ultra-bright monitor specifically designed for outdoor aerial imaging operations called the CrystalSky, and showcased the Phantom 4 Pro, Inspire 2 and … Read More
AcuRite Announces New Monitoring Solutions
AcuRite is announcing a new addition to their personal weather station technology. The AcuRite Atlas family consists of three outdoor environmental monitoring models, the AcuRite Atlas 7, AcuRite Atlas 8, and AcuRite Atlas Elite. Used with the My AcuRite cloud-based software, the system provides a better understanding of outdoor conditions for more educated decision-making. “Building on our history of delivering … Read More
Monsanto Announces New Gene Editing License
Monsanto Company has announced another step forward for the future of gene editing. A global licensing agreement between themselves, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will allow the company nonexclusive use of CRISPR-Cpf1 technology – a simpler, more precise tool for improving a cell’s DNA. Not only does the new system offer greater flexibility in editing, it’s smaller in size also … Read More
Moving Forward with #ASTACSS Panel
In this week’s mini series we’re bringing you the “Glancing Back and Moving Forward in a Rapidly Changing Industry” session from ASTA CSS, featuring Sonny Beck, founder of Beck’s Hybrids, Paul Schickler of DuPont Pioneer, and Jon Leafstedt from Kincannon and Reed. Today’s segment features the Q&A from the event, covering tough topics like talent strategy, keeping a vision for … Read More
Syngenta Announces New Sugarbeet Hybrids
Five new hybrids are being added to Syngenta’s 2017 Hilleshog sugarbeet portfolio. The new varieties offer an excellent sugar content along side improved disease and pest tolerance traits. Syngenta recommends getting these new hybrids off to a great start with critical seed protection like CruiserMaxx Sugarbeets treatment, Vibrance seed treatment fungicide, or Clariva pn seed treatment nematicide for the most successful … Read More
TechAccel and Danforth Plant Science Center Partner
Kansas City-based TechAccel and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis are working together to bring agriculture innovations to the marketplace. A $250,000 grant from the Danforth Center will encourage projects expected to produce new assets– license-ready technology, processes or products, or new spin-off companies. “This partnership with the Danforth Center is an important milestone for TechAccel and … Read More
Trimble Launches VerticalPoint RTK System
The VerticalPoint RTK system is the first of its kind. Recently launched by Trimble, the patent-pending system for grade control in agriculture offers a significantly enhanced vertical accuracy and stability of standard single-baseline RTK. The new system has less downtime and fewer delays than previous systems and is currently available in the North America and Australia on the Trimble FmX … Read More