Two leading membership organizations will join forces for their annual events this year to merge expertise and further unite key sectors working with agricultural producers to advance conservation farming practices and celebrate their stewardship. Field to Market, the country’s largest cross-sector alliance for sustainable agriculture, will hold its 2026 Annual Meeting for its nearly 200 member organizations June 1-3 in Raleigh, N.C., followed by the Conservation Technology Information Center’s 19th annual Conservation in Action Tour, America’s premier on-farm experience, on June 3-4.
The Nature Conservancy announced the release of Profitable Conservation Around the Margins, a new report demonstrating how edge of field (EoF) practices—such as vegetative buffers, wetlands, and saturated buffers—can help farmers improve profitability while delivering critical environmental benefits. The full report is available for download at nature.org/EdgeofField.
Precision Planting revealed new products for both planting and spraying at the PTx Winter Conference at the company’s headquarters in Tremont. New products introduced include ArrowTube, a seed delivery system that provides accurate spacing at high speed. ArrowTube also orients corn seeds with the tip down to promote even germination and emergence. It also orients the embryo sideways to promote corn leaves that grow across the row to capture maximum sunlight. The company also introduced SymphonyVision|Duo, a retrofit sprayer system that uses cameras, concentrate tanks, and a dual nozzle system. SymphonyVision|Duo enables farmers to spot spray contact herbicide and broadcast apply a second tank mix with the sprayer they already own in the same pass.
The World Food Prize Foundation, in collaboration with America’s Cultivation Corridor, has opened applications for the Innovate for Impact Challenge, the global AgTech startup competition with a grand prize of USD $50,000, which garnered a pool of applicants from over 60 countries and six continents in 2025.
Advanced Agrilytics announced a strategic partnership with Mutiny Crop Performance, signaling a continued evolution in how Advanced Agrilytics brings its environment-based agronomy methodology to market through strategic value-chain collaborations.
