Precision Ag News 6/2

Carrie Muehling

  • HOMESTRETCH HARVESTSHIELD™ is the new, unique biological and foliar nutrition product announced by Meristem Crop Performance as the latest addition to their robust HOMESTRETCH family of foliar nutrition products.
  • Register today for the June 7 webinar, “Sustainability in Agriculture: Moving from promise to practice.” This webinar will enable will take a closer look at the incredible progress that’s been made to date and the numerous challenges that remain. Plus, the webinar will explore what types of new federal programs and funding might be needed. Agri-Pulse is hosting this webinar which is sponsored by Corteva.
  • AGCO announced it has entered into a proof of concept collaboration agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH, BASF Digital Farming GmbH and Raven Industries Inc., with the objective of evaluating targeted spraying technology to make the application of crop protection products more effective and efficient by reducing crop input costs while driving farm and environmental sustainability.
  • Impetus Agriculture, Inc. has closed a $1 million follow-on equity investment seed round to continue development of a platform technology delivering proteins that enhance biological insect control. The company has demonstrated in the laboratory an ability to enhance the control of multiple economically important insects with multiple proteins. A co-development agreement is in place with a major multi-national agricultural company to advance the first concepts through product development and commercialization.
  • Bushel launched Bushel Fulfillment™ to its platform. Backed by the powerful Bushel platform, grain elevators now can receive accurate, same-day scale ticket information in the format needed to import into their accounting system for reconciliation. Commercial grain buyers will spend less time fielding clerical phone calls or emails and get down to business faster by streamlining paper-based processes.
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