Precision Ag News 5/19

Carrie Muehling

  • The Stoller Group, a world leader in nutrition, plant physiology and biological nitrogen fixation, has acquired a stake in Cromai, an Agri-Tech startup which is one of the five most promising in the world in terms of computational vision for agriculture, according to a survey by Startup Insights.
  • Innoquest Inc., the designer and manufacturer of precision meters for the agriculture industry since 1993, has released the SpotOn® Sprayer Calibrator Model SC-2 (SC-2). Set to replace SpotOn®’s flagship product, the Sprayer Calibrator Model SC-1 (SC-1), the SC-2 is sure to impress both new and established users with its advanced features and improved functionality.
  • Inari, the SEEDesign company, and Beck’s, the largest family-owned, retail seed company and the third largest seed brand in the United States, have announced a business and R&D collaboration – reinforcing their respective missions to provide more diverse, sustainable and competitive choices for farmers.
  • Western Growers has selected 13 innovators for the inaugural cohort of its Global Harvest Automation Initiative, a groundbreaking project that aims to automate 50 percent of specialty crop harvest within 10 years by accelerating the commercialization of harvest automation innovations.
  • Arva Intelligence announced it has integrated Planet imagery into their CropForce data analytics platform.
  • Bushel, an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for growers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies, was featured during Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference.
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