Grassroots Carbon announced the launch of GroundOwl, a new soil carbon measurement technology developed in partnership with EarthOptics, which will be exclusively deployed by Grassroots Carbon across U.S. grasslands and grazing lands. With GroundOwl, the company enhances its soil carbon measurement capabilities at scale by pairing its existing meter-deep soil sampling program with high-resolution, non-invasive EMI sensing across the entire …
Syngenta Victrato Fights Yield Robbing Soybean Diseases
The Crop Protection Network just released its soybean loss report for 2025, estimating 4.8 percent (216.5 million bushels) of the potential soybean production last year was lost due to disease across 29 soybean-producing U.S. states. According to the report, Red crown rot was estimated to have caused 7.7 million bushels of soybean yield losses in the U.S. in 2025, up …
Reservoir Opens Specialty Crop AgTech Innovation Center
Reservoir has officially opened Reservoir Farms – Salinas, its flagship on-farm innovation hub for specialty crops, turning its vision for an on-farm agtech innovation center into a working reality. The new site features multiple innovation barns and 24 acres of dedicated commercial test fields, creating the most concentrated ecosystem of technology leaders, growers, and startups anywhere in agriculture to rapidly …
Precision Ag News 3/10
The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) Board of Directors elected Mark Masters of southwest Georgia, to serve as the association’s President-Elect. He will serve a one-year term as President-Elect alongside current NACD President Gary Blair and will assume the role of NACD President in 2027. The Ag Carbon Transparent Project, announced last summer by the National Corn Growers Association …
The GHX Experience Makes Decision Making Easier
At the 2026 Commodity Classic, Syngenta Seeds’ head of agronomy Justin Welch shared how Golden Harvest is transforming farm decision-making with its AI-powered GHX experience, blending decades of agronomic expertise with cutting-edge digital technology. In the past five years, Golden Harvest has doubled down on innovation by integrating digital products and services to help farmers turn massive amounts of field …
Syngenta Invites Growers to Say Hello to Opello
After 12 years of research and development and more than 3,000 U.S. trials, Syngenta’s PLINAZOLIN technology at last received registration just three months ago from the Environmental Protection Agency and growers were able to learn more about Opello™, powered by PLINAZOLIN, at last week’s Commodity Classic. Syngenta insecticides technical product lead Kevin Langdon says they are seeing a lot of …
MyLand Warranty Program Guarantees Grower ROI
Soil health innovator MyLand has announced the launch of its new crop warranty program, in partnership with Growers Edge, designed to remove financial risk for growers adopting MyLand’s Soil Health Service, supporting apples, pistachios, and almonds across U.S. growing regions in 2026. The program is focused on proven grower success, supported by strong ROI results from the MyLand Service. It …
Syngenta Making AI Part of Farmer Solutions
When the first Commodity Classic was held 30 years ago, Artificial Intelligence was science fiction, but today it is a growing part of agricultural technology and Syngenta is on the front lines of developing ways to make it useful for farmers. Syngenta Crop Protection and Taranis formalized a strategic partnership last October to equip agricultural retailers across the Midwest with …
Durastak Corn Trait Stack Coming in 2027
It was one year ago that Syngenta’s Durastak Corn Trait Stack was approved by EPA and this time next year farmers will be able to see next level corn rootworm control with the Durastak/Durastak Viptera brand technology that is the first triple Bt protein stack for corn rootworm control. At the Syngenta Traits exhibit at last week’s Commodity Classic, Corn …
Syngenta and M.S. Technologies Announce New Soybean Trait Stack
Breaking news at Commodity Classic this week came as M.S. Technologies and Syngenta announced plans to launch a groundbreaking herbicide-tolerant soybean trait stack, with broad commercial availability expected in 2029 pending regulatory approvals. This new trait stack will be marketed by Syngenta seed brands and Stine Seed Company, as well as others. Built on the proven foundation of the Enlist …