Matt Kessel brings 15 years of experience in operations and engineering to MyLand (Phoenix, AZ) – MyLand Company, LLC (“MyLand”), a soil health company, announced today that Matt Kessel has joined the company as Vice President of Operations, Environmental Health, and Safety. Matt will oversee MyLand’s in-field service operations in our current locations in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas and …
Meister Media Worldwide to Hold 2022 Tech Hub LIVE Conference & Expo in Indianapolis This Summer
(WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, USA) — Launched in 2021 to fill the market void for an event broadly addressing the full range of new data-driven, digital agriculture innovations, the inaugural Tech Hub LIVE Conference and Expo was the largest event serving this market. The 2021 event met the industry need with a fresh, innovative, and forward-looking trade show and conference with a …
President Biden Announces New Actions for Farmers to Address Food Costs
President Joe Biden and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited the family farm of Jeff and Gina O’Connor in Kankakee, Illinois Wednesday to discuss new efforts to give farmers the tools and resources they need to boost domestic food production. Specifically, the actions include: Increase the number of counties eligible for double cropping insurance Cut costs for farmers by increasing …
Cargill RegenConnect Expands Program Eligibility to 15 states for 2022-23 crop season
Program offers growers a simple, flexible, transparent way to access the carbon marketplace through adoption of regenerative agriculture practices MINNEAPOLIS (May 10, 2022) Enrollment opens this month for Cargill RegenConnect, a voluntary market-based regenerative agriculture program offering producers a simple, flexible, and transparent way to access the growing carbon marketplace. For the 2022-23 crop season Cargill has expanded grower eligibility …
ZimmCast 691 – Update from CropTrak
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. Before getting to our featured guest I did a little look into the way back machine of AgWired. I found a ZimmCast I did with an interview with PrecisonEarth, owned by Cogent3D, Inc, and that’s where I met Aaron Hutchison. We were at the InfoAg Conference in 2011 where the company was showcasing a …
Yara’s New Potato Incubator Farm Explores Synergies of Crop Nutrition and Carbon Footprint Reduction
Yara has recently established a new Incubator Farm in the Columbia Basin of Washington, aimed at exploring how a complete potato crop nutrition program that drives productivity and grower profitability can simultaneously lead to a reduced carbon footprint. The 260 acre trials will analyze the role of crop nutrition and practices such as 4R nutrient management in supporting the industry’s …
CropTrak Adds Digital Contracting and Settlement for End-to-End Financial Capability
The First to Digitize Grower Contracts into One Supplier Management System Today, CropTrak publicly released a platform update that expands its capabilities to provide multi-stakeholders complete visibility of the financial transactions across their ingredient supply chain. For the first time, food and beverage companies managing grower contracts and settlements can do so in one seamless platform optimized for collaboration and …
ESMC and Benson Hill Partner to Support Midwest Farmers Participation in Agricultural Carbon Markets
Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (“ESMC”), a non-profit member-based organization launching a national scale ecosystem service market program for agriculture, and Benson Hill, Inc. (NYSE: BHIL) (“Benson Hill”), a food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, today announced the completion of the first year of a carbon credit pilot leveraging Benson Hill’s farm to ingredient business model. Over …
ZimmCast 687 – Verdant Robotics
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I’m Chuck Zimmerman. Before getting to this week’s interview I thought I’d summarize a little bit of our activities. Last week Cindy and I tagged teamed the National Ethanol Conference where we created a customized virtual newsroom for the Renewable Fuels Association. There is a lot of content in there including 2 different event …
AMVAC, Azotic North America Collaborate to Develop, Commercialize N-Fixation Product Envita for SIMPAS-applied Solutions
Nitrogen-fixation solution expands application options for the SIMPAS system AMVAC® and Azotic North America are pleased to announce a collaboration to develop and commercialize nitrogen-fixation product Envita™ as an exciting addition to the expanding SIMPAS-applied Solutions™ portfolio. Envita is a naturally occurring food-grade bacteria that allows a to fix nitrogen. Envita can be applied in-furrow to multiple crops including corn …
Verdant Robotics Delivers First Multi-Action Autonomous Farm Robot for Specialty Crops
To meet farmers’ demands for more sustainable and profitable growing practices, Verdant Robotics announced the expansion of its robot-as-a-service (RaaS) model to ensure access for more specialty crop farmers today. Founded in late 2018 by a leading roboticist, a software engineer, and a California farmer, Verdant has raised $21.5 million to develop the industry’s first multi-action, autonomous farm-robot capable of …
SABIC Signs Technology Collaboration Agreement With Intrinsyx Bio
Patented endophyte solutions increase crop yields and reduce nitrogen use through biological nitrogen fixation SABIC, a global leader in diversified chemicals with a focus on agri-nutrients, has signed a technology collaboration agreement with Intrinsyx Bio, a California based company focused on the development and commercialization of endophytes (plant microbes) that can increase crop yields and optimize fertilizer usage. As part …
iNvigorate Biological Is First Liquid Formulation to Join Growing Line of SIMPAS-applied Solutions
Now paired with the SIMPAS application system for corn and soybeans, iNvigorate assists in nutrient uptake and improving fertilizer efficiency (NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) AMVAC® is pleased to announce that its iNvigorate® Biological is the first liquid product to be made available for application using the SIMPAS® system on corn and soybeans. iNvigorate – developed by Agrinos®, now an American Vanguard® …
The VISION Conference 2022
The way we produce and supply food around the world is changing fast and the voices driving this change are gathering at The 2022 VISION Conference, January 18 -19, at the Renaissance Phoenix Glendale Hotel & Spa in Arizona. The conference is now in its fifth year and the world of data and technology has grown rapidly since VISION last …
ZimmCast 683 – Wrap-ups and Previews
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. This episode will be about a wrap-up and a couple of previews. 2022 got off to a fast start with our virtual newsroom production for the National Cotton Council and the Beltwide Cotton Conferences. You can find the interviews and photos on AgNewsWire.com which has a link to the custom page we created for …