AgriTech Review

A two-year field experiment in southeastern Türkiye found that supplemental irrigation increased chickpea grain yield, particularly when flowering and grain filling were included, although spring sowing generally achieved better water productivity.

The data viewer will provide near-real-time, county-level data sets on the use of cover crops and conservation tillage practices to strengthen decision-making for U.S. agriculture. The post Viridis View to Launch at Sustainable Ag Summit to Track Progress for Regenerative Agriculture appeared first on CropLife.

A survey of 300 homestead agroforests across three Ethiopian districts recorded 45 woody species in 27 families, over 71 percent of them indigenous, revealing these managed farm gardens as important in-situ reservoirs of native tree diversity despite heavy cash-crop dominance.

A single-case report from Beirut describes six days of continuous antegrade liposomal amphotericin B irrigation through a nephrostomy tube that softened a refractory Candida lusitaniae renal fungal bezoar, allowing complete endoscopic removal without complications.

Researchers built iron–tea polyphenol coatings on biodegradable electrospun membranes and found that a four-layer assembly cut sweet cherry decay to 1.85 percent over seven days, far outperforming commercial plastic wrap.

A 90-day incubation study found that pelletized straw reduced nitrous oxide emissions by up to 45.7% while changing ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in nitrogen-fertilized saline-alkali soil.

Bill Clinton has criticised Donald Trump's Rose Garden renovation, comparing it to the entrance of Liberace's bathroom during a Florida campaign event for David Jolly.

Salicylic acid has long been celebrated as the master switch of plant immunity, a hormone that lets crops detect pathogens and mount a broad-spectrum defense known as systemic acquired resistance. In laboratory experiments, spraying plants with this simple phenolic compound

A glasshouse experiment with four tropical legume species in southwestern China reveals that conspecific neighbors drive root investment under drought while heterospecific neighbors promote aboveground growth, with the balance between competition and facilitation shifting across soil moisture gradients.

A field experiment in Pernambuco, Brazil, found that pulse subsurface drip fertigation combined with a nitrogen rate of about 189 kilograms per hectare maximized net photosynthesis in sugarcane, while nitrogen rates above roughly 168 kilograms per hectare reduced carboxylation and water use efficiency.

A new review finds that natural farming practices such as Jeevamrit, Beejamrit and mulching can improve soil organic carbon, microbial activity and water-related properties, but warns that most benefits are confounded with organic manures and that direct evidence of climate resilience remains limited.

A survey of 28 alpine forest sites on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau found opposite nonlinear changes in soil nitrogen and phosphorus across elevations from 769 to 3,767 metres.

A new review in Discover Plants finds that seed priming reliably improves germination and early seedling vigor under drought, salinity and temperature stress, but says wider farm adoption depends on standardized protocols, field-scale validation and better understanding of primed seed storage.

A simulation-based study reports that a federated Edge-AI framework combining smart neck collars and a hybrid GBoost-LSTM model predicted dairy cattle disease with 95.12 percent accuracy while keeping raw sensor data on participating farms.

Long non-coding RNAs are emerging as a vast regulatory layer controlling growth, fertility, disease resistance and meat quality in livestock, with new CRISPR-Cas13 tools poised to convert transcriptomic catalogues into actionable breeding markers.

Anu, an indoor farming startup founded by Purdue alumni, has received a $500,000 NSF Phase IIB SBIR grant to scale manufacturing of its compostable Plug-and-Grow Seed Pods for automated, low-labor Food is Medicine cultivation.

A comprehensive review maps how hydrogen-rich water is produced, why its dissolved hydrogen is so hard to keep, and what the evidence shows across food preservation, agriculture, animal health and human trials.

A comprehensive review details how strictly lytic bacteriophages can target intestinal pathogens in livestock and poultry while preserving beneficial microbiota, but field efficacy remains constrained by delivery, resistance, and immune clearance.

In 1987, biologists captured the last free-flying condor to transfer it to captivity, and the largest flying North American bird species was officially declared extinct in the wild. Today, after decades of coordinated efforts and millions of dollars spent on captive breeding and reintroduction efforts, more than 300 condors have been restored to their natural environment.

A field experiment found that combining the bacterium Azospirillum brasilense with humic acid improved wheat growth, physiology and drought tolerance when water was withheld at the tillering stage.

Pectin extracted from cocoa husk waste has been cast into biodegradable films that shield ultraviolet light, scavenge free radicals, disintegrate rapidly in soil, and can be regenerated by dissolution and recasting, according to a new study.

A resource assessment of Southern Ghour, Jordan's lowest-elevation agricultural district, estimates that farm residues, animal manure, and municipal waste could yield 38.93 GWh of electricity per year, while decentralized wastewater treatment could recover up to 3.27 million cubic meters of treated irrigation water annually.

The bacterium Acinetobacter radioresistens Ke–5 enhanced elemental sulphur oxidation by 3.7 to 29.4 per cent in sodic soils and, combined with sulphur, increased rice and wheat yields by 4.8 to 19.3 per cent in lysimeter trials.

California agriculture depends on healthy soil, effective nutrient management and responsible water use. For Allie Cushnyr, senior agronomist for Holloway, helping growers improve soil health is about more than producing ... Read More The post Holloway Agronomist Highlights Soil Health and Gypsum Benefits appeared first on AgNet West.

GMO Internet Group has asked Japan’s government to use its new active cyber defence powers against hackers who breached one of its services. The company made the request on Saturday, after the attackers demanded money. In a stock exchange filing on Saturday, GMO said it wants state agencies to trace, block, and neutralise the attackers’ infrastructure. It […] This story continues at The Next Web

A spokesperson said it was removing inaccurate AI images and pausing the rollout of the tool.

A laboratory study of coastal cement soil reports that 6 percent bamboo biochar raised unconfined compressive strength by up to 53 percent at 28 days, while carbonation curing at 40 percent CO2 produced the best cyclic performance and increased relative CO2 uptake by roughly 27 to 39 percent.

Amplicon surveys across four dominant plant communities around Qinghai Lake reveal that Leymus secalinus soils harbor the richest primer-defined nosZ communities, that diversity and composition track partly different vegetation–soil variables, and that phylogeny-based null models point to variable selection as the dominant assembly process.

A study published in Food Hydrocolloids shows potato protein can form a strong network with fava bean protein during high-moisture extrusion, offering a gluten-free route to structured plant-based meat, though the blend tastes more bitter and astringent than gluten-containing versions.

Discover the top stories from Oct. 17 to Oct. 23, 2026, including why thousands of snakes close a road in Illinois twice a year and a mysterious space object found in a farmer's field.

A five-year repeat survey of Irish tillage farmers finds steady gains in GPS guidance, auto-steer, and yield monitoring, while variable-rate and imagery-based decision tools lag behind.

An experimental study of Culex pipiens larvae reared at five food levels finds that nutritional stress becomes detectable around 25% of ad libitum feeding, with females more sensitive than males and developmental time and wing size the most sensitive stress indicators.

A comprehensive review finds that tannins and other phytogenic bioactives can shift nitrogen excretion in ruminants toward less harmful routes, but verified whole-farm emission reductions remain rare.

A one-season field trial in Guagusashekudad District found that combining 150–300 kg per hectare of NPSB-Urea with 15 tonnes per hectare of farmyard manure produced wheat yields of 5.40–5.92 tonnes per hectare and the highest net benefit.

Vattenfall has tested a thermal camera system using artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor bird behaviour at its Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore...

Potatoes could hold the key to making better gluten-free plant-based meat, according to a new study.

The receiver has also received a draft asset purchase agreement from key creditor Gray Construction, which filed a lawsuit last year alleging it was owed $36.4m for design and construction work at the facility, The post Unnamed bidder submits letter of intent to acquire Believer Meats’ US cultivated meat site appeared first on AgFunderNews.

In Slovenian retention-basin soils, switching from z-score standardisation to a centred log-ratio transformation before principal component analysis of portable X-ray fluorescence data substantially changed the variance structure, loading patterns and group-test outcomes, revealing a carbonate-phosphate versus silicate gradient only partly aligned with metal enrichment.

A Nature Food study combining county records, farmer surveys and thousands of field experiments finds that crop- and region-specific irrigation investment could raise Chinese cereal yields while cutting water use by at least 25.5%.

Red soil covers 2.18 million square kilometers of southern China, roughly 22.7% of the national land area, and it is the country's second most extensively eroded soil type. Highly erodible by nature, and battered by natural disasters and decades of

A PRISMA-ScR-informed synthesis of 40 open-access studies maps how soil fertility management, fertilizer use efficiency and greenhouse gas outcomes are reported together and where the evidence remains fragmented.

Early Settlers Overlooked the Importance of Soil Conservation In the early years of American agriculture, settlers often gave little thought to conserving and maintaining the fertility of their soil. As ... Read More The post How Crop Rotation Helped American Farmers Protect Soil Fertility appeared first on AgNet West.

Modern agriculture's selective breeding of crops for particular requirements may now be a roadblock to further gains, prompting a trio of senior University of Queensland plant scientists to call for a new way forward.

Alexander the Great, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, reportedly bathed in saffron to heal his battle wounds. Doctors once prescribed this rare plant as a treatment for the bubonic plague. Cleopatra even used it as a fragrance to entice potential suitors. And now, this tiny flower associated with the Middle East could have a new use: providing Colorado farmers with supplemental income in the drought-stricken American West.

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.