AgriTech Review

Mahindra launched the 475 DI MS XP Plus and 575 DI XP Plus tractors with Smart LIFT technology, offering precise implement depth control, reduced operator fatigue, improved productivity, and durable heavy-duty Transcase performance.

Rising temperatures and increasing drought are shortening crop-growing seasons in many parts of the world. Now scientists in Sweden report new advances toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis, work that could eventually contribute to efforts to adapt crops for climate change.

Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create "elite working dogs" equipped with "advanced body armor."

On Jan. 3, 1117, a strong earthquake shook northern Italy. A manuscript of the 12th century, kept today in the Vatican Library, recorded what came next: "The lakes also rose so much that very few of those living in the villages nearby escaped this danger."

You've likely heard this assumption: When AI-enabled and autonomous machines arrive on the farm, jobs will disappear. But researchers at the University of California, Davis, who studied 16 fruit tree operations in California and Washington for three years, found that automation still takes human knowledge. What changes is how the work gets done. The study, drawing on 165 in-depth interviews with workers and growers, was published in the journal New Technology, Work and Employment.

The EU Nature Restoration Regulation adopted in 2024 establishes the restoration of ecosystem functions as an objective of stream restoration. But can conventional measures that focus primarily on restoring the physical structure of rivers and streams fulfill this task?

Program supported by the Gates Foundation advances light-activated seed technology into field trials and deployment in climate-smart rice farming systems. The post BioLumic and IRRI Field-Test Rice Trait Technology to Protect Yields, Cut Methane and Water Use appeared first on CropLife.

Advances in biological artificial intelligence (AI) have brought biosecurity to the center of public debate, and the US Congress is now considering the Biosecurity Modernization and Innovation Act (1). Yet this debate, like biosecurity more broadly, remains focused largely on human health and overlooks the importance of pathogens that affect crops and livestock. The United States and governments worldwide should prioritize crop and livestock protection by minimizing the likelihood of deliberate pathogen attacks and making the targets less vulnerable to harm.

There was a time when decorative wreaths appeared on front doors in December, stayed on front doors for a few weeks and then disappeared.

The loss of Earth's animal and plant species is a crisis. Just don't call it an "extinction crisis" if you aim to mobilize public concern.

Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen says he plans to retire from music after the band's final album and 2027 farewell tour, turning instead to life as a goat herder in California.

A two-phase greenhouse experiment found that soils associated with invasive annual grasses can alter later growth and competition, providing evidence that plant–soil feedbacks may help sustain dense invasive stands.

The EU’s current ‘stress test’ of existing ecological directives could add “years” to the permitting procedures of new wind farms just when this process needs accelerating, an industry body has warned.

The open-source FHOPS platform combines exact and heuristic optimization, disturbance testing and traceable evidence generation for forest harvest scheduling in a British Columbia ground-based case study.

A large-scale flume experiment found negligible erosion of tested salt-marsh soil but substantial vegetation damage, with vegetation-related wave attenuation greatest at low-energy coasts.

A global composite index of 119 countries identifies strong European leaders and African laggards while showing that climate resilience, agricultural value per worker and innovation capacity jointly shape estimated readiness for digital farming.

Steakholder Foods is bringing plant-based meat made with advanced production technology to US retailers. Here's how it works and what remains unclear. The post 3D-Printed Meat Is Coming to US Grocery Stores: Here’s What to Know appeared first on TechRepublic.

A 50-day greenhouse study found that biologically treated wastewater met irrigation standards and altered spinach soil chemistry and bacterial communities.

A systematic review finds that Ghana’s diversified agricultural resources could support far more bioethanol production, but policy enforcement, infrastructure and residue collection keep most of the estimated potential unused.

Just Eat has paused a trial of AI-generated menu photographs and removed inaccurate images after bizarre depictions of UK dishes circulated on Reddit, Instagram and X.

A controlled-environment reanalysis of 140 lettuce plant-day observations found that elapsed irrigation time improved schedule-balanced classification of irrigation-stress histories beyond the nominal watering schedule.

A systematic review found that livestock-waste biogas performance depends strongly on feedstock chemistry, pretreatment, co-digestion, reactor conditions and scale.

The Republican incumbent, Roger Marshall, is facing a surprisingly tough challenge from the Democratic nominee, Adam Hamilton.

A 62-day tank trial found that soybean meal and Kappaphycus sp. produced distinct gut bacterial communities in farmed Nile tilapia, with soybean supporting the greatest growth and the seaweed producing the highest measured diversity.

A big-eyed, venomous primate that had not been documented in scientific literature since the 1930s has been hiding in plain sight on the Indonesian island of Bangka, turning up in backyards, along roadsides and on power lines and prompting local residents who find them to call the Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center for help.

A laboratory isolate of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia removed 72% of phenanthrene under static conditions while producing a glycolipid-type biosurfactant that remained active across moderate temperature, pH and salinity ranges.

Learn how a Minnesota farmer found a mysterious metal object in his field and why experts believe it could have fallen from space.

Systemic changes are needed across the entire agri-food supply chain to address the global impact of conflict and climate change on food shortages, writes an expert in The BMJ's climate issue.

Most plants do not gather nutrients from the soil entirely on their own. Many form partnerships with microscopic fungi that grow inside their roots and extend into the surrounding soil. These partnerships, known as arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses, help plants access nutrients, especially phosphorus. In return, the fungi receive carbon-rich compounds from the plants. But how does a plant coordinate the many signals needed to build and maintain this exchange?

Claims of a hairless animal taking livestock near Ciudad Juárez have revived the chupacabra legend, but officials say they have received no reports of unusual attacks.

Investor appetite stays strong as AgTech funding exceeds $2 billion and deal volume jumps. The post Q3 2026 AgTech Venture Capital Investment and Exit Round Up appeared first on CropLife.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed an artificial intelligence system that organizes decades of food science research, helping engineers identify food properties and uncover previously unreported scientific relationships.

A large-scale computational analysis links distinct soil and climatic conditions with significant differences in predicted biosynthetic gene cluster richness among terrestrial Streptomyces populations.

A critical review finds that cobalt’s narrow window between plant stimulation and toxicity, together with variable soil availability and accumulating fertiliser inputs, undermines the case for routine enrichment.

American agriculture has a long history of adopting technology to improve productivity and efficiency. From advancement in seed genetics, to the precision technology that guides equipment down the field with… Source

A two-year Tanzanian field study found that bag gardens could produce African indigenous vegetables with higher levels of some nutrients and plant compounds, but the measured differences varied by crop, year and location.

A 1,607-sample Junggar Basin field survey found that soil butane-oxidizing bacteria tracked reservoir geometry and enrichment, although seven validated wells and environmental corrections limit generalizability.

AI that touches project decisions must meet three tests, says Newforma. Answers must be explainable, verifiable against the source data, and accurate enough to act on. The post Lumi AI finds new home at Newforma as agentic analytics gathers pace appeared first on AgFunderNews.

One former employee claimed the firm had “rapidly scaled headcount only to issue a sudden massive layoff months later, with some employees let go just weeks after starting.” The post Layoffs at Carbon Robotics as firm “realigns costs due to broader economic conditions” appeared first on AgFunderNews.

A coupled material-flow model and local predictive controller reduced soybean cleaning loss, impurity and breakage in three field repetitions while maintaining baseline clean-grain throughput on one harvester.

Bacteria get a bad reputation—with all the outbreaks, infections and deaths.

A survey of 101 farmers in Punjab found that greater AI diffusion was associated with higher perceived productivity and profitability, but the cross-sectional design could not establish causation.

A vegetation-aware strategy combining L-, C- and X-band satellite soil-moisture data improved model accuracy by selecting observations according to canopy conditions, with the largest gains in central and western China.

A massive study of more than 460,000 Americans found that ultra-processed foods were not associated with increased colorectal cancer risk overall, challenging a widely held assumption. While processed meat was linked to higher cancer incidence, ultra-processed whole grains and dairy products were associated with lower incidence.

The world is falling short of its biodiversity commitments because nature is still treated as an afterthought in decisions about housing, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, mining and conservation, according to a new UNSW report.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April  —  OpenAI will make its artificial intelligence models available for developers through Google's cloud, following years of competition between the two companies.

A four-agroecosystem survey and synthesis of 138 global soil profiles link deep-soil viruses to microbial carbon scavenging, necromass formation and mineral-associated organic carbon.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed an artificial intelligence system that organizes decades of food science research, helping engineers identify food properties and uncover previously unreported scientific relationships.

Washington State University and the USDA opened a plant bioscience research facility Oct. 14.

A laboratory study found that phytic-acid-modified corn-stalk superabsorbents adsorbed fertilizer solutions and reduced early urea and KDP release in soil tests.

A two-year Nigerian field trial found that wide spacing and high NPK improved several cucumber quality traits, while close spacing maximized yield and CU 999 produced firmer fruit than Monalisa.

An IoT-integrated hydroponic maize system completed three sequential validation cycles and produced fresh-biomass conversion indices of 2.82:1 to 4.03:1 using municipal tap water without chemical adjustment.

A Portuguese field experiment found that woody biochar increased pasture productivity from 6 to 9 tonnes per hectare, raised protein yield by 52%, reduced deeper-layer soil hardness and eased selected nutrient and drought constraints.

A review finds that agricultural allelopathy depends on plant identity, chemical mixtures, soil processes, microbial transformations and realistic exposure.

A 21-year Belgian cropland study found that soil inventories, process modelling and eddy-covariance measurements disagreed about carbon-stock trends, while agreeing that farmyard manure was the strongest driver of accumulation.

Korean peacekeepers deployed under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan are leveraging advanced agricultural science to help improve food security in one of the country's most vulnerable regions. The initiative, led by Korea’s Rural Development Administration in partnership with the military’s Hanbit Unit, integrates high-yield crop technologies into civil-affairs operations to help local communities work toward long-term agricultural self-sufficiency. Rather than relying solely on short-term food aid, Korean agricultural experts are embedding field-tested farming techniques into military civil assistance, establishing a scalable model for military-led development assistance. South Sudan, which gained independence in 2011 following decades of conflict, continues to suffer from severe food insecurity compounded by seasonal flooding, internal instability and economic shocks. The ongoing crisis in neighboring Sudan has further strained local resources as more than 1.4 million

A two-season Egyptian field trial found that combining Rhizobium with organic amendments and mineral fertilizer improved faba bean yield, nutrient availability, plant condition, and indicators of soil biological functioning in marginally saline soil.

Author(s): T. Rick Perche, Francesco Gozzini, and Markus K. OberthalerAn impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate with time-tunable coupling realizes an Unruh-DeWitt detector of the condensate’s effective relativistic phonon field. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 170401] Published Tue Oct 20, 2026

Public and private investments must address the financial barriers preventing women from benefiting fully from digital technologies and artificial intelligence as multiple global crises and aid cuts bite.

The family farmers who produce the lion’s share of Brazil’s staple foods are opening their arms to cutting-edge Chinese artificial intelligence in a bid to modernise operations and secure their future. Brazil and China agreed to a five-year cooperation programme in September aimed at giving smallholders – the backbone of the Brazilian agricultural sector – an AI boost after a decade of declining employment and limited access to affordable technology. Representatives of the Brazilian Agricultural...

Ag robotics specialist Reservoir is opening a new site in Washington State as its on-farm community for physical AI expands to tree fruit and blueberries. The post Reservoir Farms expands to Pacific Northwest to accelerate physical AI appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Advances in weed management technology could reduce reliance on herbicides and manual labor, but a new review from the University of Mississippi and Cornell University indicates those tools also bring steep costs and potential challenges.

A laboratory study found that peptide-modified nanocellulose made from dairy sludge and crustacean waste achieved reported removal efficiencies of 97.80% for COD, 93.60% for BOD₅ and 96.40% for TOC under optimized conditions, with approximately 95%, 92% and 89% retained after five adsorption–desorption cycles.

A first-season Austrian citizen science field study found amphibians in 38% of 289 newly installed garden mini-ponds and signs of reproduction in 10%.

A cytogenetic study of 30 Quasipaa spinosa frogs from one Hunan farm found 26 chromosomes in both sexes, with nine metacentric and four submetacentric pairs.

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Morphological and three-locus phylogenetic analyses identified Chloridium jiangxiense and Paragongromeriza jiangxiensis as two new fungal species isolated from a Jiangxi bamboo forest soil.

A two-season greenhouse pot study found that weekly Azolla or Moringa extract applications improved geranium growth, physiology, nutrient uptake and essential oil output in sandy soil, with 10% Moringa producing the largest measured responses.

A cross-sectional study of 2,437 occupationally exposed people around Poyang Lake found varying avian influenza antibody reactivity across subtypes, locations and years from 2018 to 2025 without establishing infection or local circulation.

A two-season greenhouse pot trial found that combined poultry manure extract, humic acid and dry yeast produced the highest lavender biomass, essential-oil yield and several biochemical measures in sandy soil, but field validation remains needed.

AGCO to explore Digit robot use in manufacturing operation for repetitive, hazardous tasks. The post AGCO and Agility Robotics Advance Smart Manufacturing with Humanoid Robot Pilot in Hesston, KS, Facility appeared first on CropLife.

Biochar can store carbon in the soil and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—yet we still know too little about how long the biochar will persist. Now, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have found a new way to measure this, using wood from the 1960s that was affected by nuclear weapons testing. The paper is published in the journal Radiocarbon.

Curtin University researchers have detected traces of hundreds of plants and animals by collecting DNA from the air as they drove more than 1,100km (684 miles) across Western Australia.

A review of animal and human evidence links crop-specific amino acids, fats, fiber and phenolics to pathways involved in fatty liver while emphasizing that processing, crop variability and whole-food context limit translation.

Marine scientists have conducted the first re-survey of northern Patagonia's kelp forests in more than 50 years and discovered dramatic changes across one of the world's most remote marine ecosystems due to human activities.

A survey of 276 Sierra Leonean farms mapped widespread cassava diversity, regionally variable pest pressure and cassava mosaic disease associated chiefly with contaminated cuttings.

Donald Trump has announced an $8 billion programme offering one-off payments to farmers to help offset high diesel costs during harvest, with key details still unavailable

On today’s episode of the AgNet News Hour, Richard Fordyce, USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, discussed billions of dollars in upcoming farm safety-net payments and new opportunities ... Read More The post USDA Announces $13.8 Billion in Farm Payments as Autonomous Spraying Technology Advances appeared first on AgNet West.

A two-year rainfed field trial across six barley varieties found that glycine betaine and zeatin increased average grain yield by 3.64% and 8.01%, respectively, compared with the control.

Scientists have uncovered a possible explanation for why some people struggle to taste food more than a year after recovering from COVID-19. By examining taste buds from patients with lingering symptoms, researchers discovered molecular abnormalities that weaken the signals responsible for detecting sweet, bitter, and savory flavors.

A one-year study of 505 dairy-cattle fecal samples from a single Inner Mongolia farm documented seasonal prevalence and genetic diversity of two intestinal pathogens.

Donald Trump announced an $8bn USDA fuel relief programme for farmers at a Kansas rally, while campaigning for Senator Roger Marshall and gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson.

As concerns about farmer mental health continue to grow, agricultural researchers are compiling more data on the complex nature of suicide awareness among those who may be able to offer help.

A GIS-based RUSLE assessment estimated annual soil loss of up to 51.4391 tonnes per hectare across Rwanda’s 3,402-square-kilometre Akanyaru Catchment, with modeled hotspots linked to bare land, steep cropland, erodible soils and intense rainfall.

By sticking to in-store menu prices and a flat 5 percent fee, Olo wants to take the sting out of ordering dinner.

An international model estimates that smart-farming technologies are already profitable on 42% of global cropland and could pay off on 50% within 20 years.

A case report of severe leptospirosis in a 35-year-old farmer found that Weil’s syndrome can mimic acute cholangitis despite the absence of biliary obstruction.

A review identifies seven described freshwater planarian species in Chile and shows that sampling, mature-anatomy documentation and access to voucher specimens remain limited.

A comparative 2021 survey of 28 sites in Austria and Luxembourg found that extensive grasslands performed better in Tyrol, while cultivated wildflower fallows supported more bees in Luxembourg.

A study tested two wind forecast models and found that more accurate one does not mean more savings. The post Laser tech could slash grid penalties for wind farms, because their forecasts are less wrong at the right times appeared first on Renew Economy.

Community-led fieldwork in Boyacá, Colombia, documented two endangered vanilla crop wild relatives, including the first Colombian record of Vanilla karen-christianae and the first V. dressleri population east of the Magdalena River.

A morphology-and-DNA study identified three new Cunninghamellaceae species from soil in Guangdong and Yunnan, with each forming a distinct, strongly supported phylogenetic lineage.

As governments prepare to gather in Yerevan, Armenia, this week for the U.N. Biodiversity Conference (COP17), new research identifies 13% of Earth's land area as hotspots for biodiversity conservation, highlighting where conservation efforts are most urgently needed.

A hybrid attention model combined six years of field observations with orchard geography to forecast occurrence levels and intensity for four citrus pests and diseases within one Chinese orchard.

A controlled paddy-soil experiment found that manganese-loaded wheat-straw biochar increased nitrogen-conserving microbial activity and reduced cumulative nitrous oxide emissions by about 89%.

Irrigation level was the dominant influence on the biochemical and hormonal response of aronia, Aronia melanocarpa, in a study that tested the plant across both water deficit and surplus conditions.

The career of Swiss entomologist Jacques Derron demonstrated how ecological research, biological control and carefully calibrated intervention thresholds can make crop protection more evidence-based and sustainable.

A new non-venomous keelback snake from southeastern Yunnan is distinguished by its anatomy, coloration and mitochondrial DNA, revealing another layer of hidden biodiversity in East and Southeast Asia.

"Why haven't farm animals evolved to protect themselves against humans?—Sarang, age 15, Latur, Maharashtra, India"

A modular cytidine base editor that separates its Cas9 nickase and deaminase produced fewer unwanted DNA changes in moss and wheat, despite editing less efficiently than a conventional fused system.