This year’s AgGateway Annual Meeting was a first for Marcelo Abreu of Venturus and he was pleased to be honored for his work for the organization in Brazil with the AgGateway in Action award for the Latin America Region. “It was a surprise. I really didn’t know that I was going to be nominated,” said Abreu, who also was nominated …
Land O’Lakes and Microsoft Partner for AI Innovation in Agriculture
Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft today announced a multiyear strategic alliance, marking a new chapter in their shared commitment to agricultural innovation. Building on five years of successful collaboration, the alliance will focus on co-developing AI-powered tools including a digital assistant called “Oz.” This assistant is built on models within Azure AI Foundry and uses Land O’Lakes agricultural data to …
Syngenta Opens Cropwise Digital Platform to Developers
Syngenta announced this week the opening of its CROPWISE™ AI-powered platform for farmers to third-party developers worldwide. The launch of the Cropwise Open Platform is designed to accelerate the digital transformation of agriculture by enabling innovators to integrate advanced agronomic models into new tools and applications — helping farmers benefit from smarter, connected agricultural technologies. New research from IPSOS, conducted …
AI and Future-Ready Agriculture
Tami Craig Shilling retired earlier this year after 35 years with Monsanto/Bayer, but she is not done working. “I’m advising some ag tech organizations and spending some time volunteering to build some generative AI benchmarking efforts in the industry,” she said during an interview at this week’s AgGateway Annual Meeting. At the same time, Shilling is still living on a …
AgGateway Keynote: AI Playbook for Ag
Preston Fay with the global management consulting firm Kearney gave the keynote presentation this week at the 2025 AgGateway Annual Meeting and Conference, offering what he called a Practical AI Playbook for Ag. Fay says right now is agriculture’s iPhone moment. “So we have this really interesting situation where we’re using AI in a lot of ways in the ag …
Agtonomy Accelerates Global Expansion
Agriculture software and services company Agtonomy, today announced its expansion in the United States with new deployments in the Southeast and its first international commercial operation in Australia. Agtonomy’s latest expansion marks a pivotal moment for agricultural automation, with the company making its commercial debut in Australia. This initiative introduces an advanced physical AI platform to Australian growers, empowering them …
Intelinair Wins 2025 IoT AgTech Advancement Award
AI-powered crop intelligence provider Intelinair has been named winner of the 2025 IoT AgTech Advancement Award by IoThinkTank for its innovative AGMRI platform. The award annually recognizes companies shaping the future of connected technologies that deliver measurable impact at the field level. “AGMRI is a category-defining, data-rich platform that clearly demonstrates how IoT and AI can drive better, faster, and …
Syngenta Cropwise AI
Those attending the 2025 Farm Progress Show had the opportunity to learn more about Cropwise AI from Syngenta. “It’s like putting a Rolodex of agronomic information about our products right in the palm of their hands,” said Justin Welch, head of agronomy for Syngenta Seeds. Syngenta Seeds Agronomy Head Justin Welch – Cropwise AI (4:36) The uniqueness is around predictive …
Bonsai Robotics Acquires farm-ng
Bonsai Robotics Inc. (“Bonsai”), a leader in vision-based autonomy software for agriculture, today announced its acquisition of farm-ng Inc., a pioneer in modular electric robots for farm management. This brings together two of agtech’s most advanced and innovative companies to deliver powerful AI solutions that tackle the labor, cost, and efficiency challenges growers face today. The integration of Bonsai’s high-performance …
Best AI Agents for Journalists
Since I’m just getting started with any kind of AI agent I thought I’d use one to suggest the best AI Agents for journalists. Here’s part of the answer. The best AI agent for journalists depends on specific needs, but several tools stand out based on their ability to streamline research, writing, fact-checking, and transcription. Here’s a list of top …