by Travis Martin | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Cue the wedding bells. xFarm and Farm Technologies merged their digital ag platforms to become xFarm Technologies. The Italian company will offer artificial intelligence and Internet of Things solutions to their 80,000 farms and 1M hectares. To help ease farmers into...
by Travis Martin | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s a regulatory tug-of-war. Animal welfare advocates have sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for not having final Proposition 12 rules in place for its January 1, 2022 effective date. On the flip side, the National Pork Producers...
by Travis Martin | Dec 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
“There’s reasons to finally be upbeat in dairy.” That was Dan Basse, president of the Chicago-based AgResource Company, at the recent Agricultural Bankers Conference. And with 2021 dairy exports tracking toward setting a new record, dairy definitely has a reason to be...
by Travis Martin | Dec 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s a berry good day for Pairwise, a company inching closer to making berries seedless through their work altering blackberries’ and black raspberries’ DNA. How do they do it? Pairwise uses CRISPR gene-editing to remove or change the sequence of the genome so a...
by Travis Martin | Dec 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
For our readers living in the country, butter your buns and get ready for broadband because Land O’ Lakes is on a roll. Butter together: The co-op—more than 1,600 dairy farmers strong—rings in its 100-year-old birthday with a big $65B broadband funding win, part...
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