Canadian firm Lucent Bio is on a mission is to deliver crop nutrition to growers that increases yields whilst minimising environmental impact through carbon sequestration. Now the agritech company’s Soileos product has been recognised in the prestigious THRIVE | Shell Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge – where it won the ‘Scale-up’ category. The THRIVE | Shell Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge aims to identify and support start-up and scale-up innovators driving the global transformation to climate-smart agriculture practices. Over 300 start-ups competed in this challenge. As a winner, Lucent Bio will showcase Soileos, Lucent Bio’s Climate-smart solution, during South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin,…
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Matt Peskett
Matt has worked in digital publishing and media for over two decades across the science, technology, food and agricultural sectors. With a lifelong passion for growing his own food, Matt also produces 300kg giant pumpkins for exhibition and volunteers with the Royal Horticultural Society. He has a sizeable horticultural social media presence and has been a finalist in the Garden Media Guild's blog of the year and social media awards. Matt also dabbles in start-up investment with companies like Small Robot Company, Drone Ag and RootWave.
Having already deployed dozens of its retrofit autonomy kits on tractors, Agritech firm FieldIn says it plans to deploy over 100 more throughout the US in 2023. Ouster, Inc. a leading provider of high-performance lidar sensors, shipped 100 of its ‘OS1’ sensors to Fieldin at the end of 2022. Each of Fieldin’s autonomy kits is equipped with an OS1 for reliable vehicle localisation, navigation, and object detection. Fieldin’s autonomy kits offers various levels of automation features that can be unlocked, including auto-steering and other driving assistance capabilities, autonomous spraying, and fully autonomous driver-out functionality in line with rapidly evolving local…
US climate tech start-up Agrology has launched its Arbiter Carbon Monitoring System as it helps farmers to combat climate change. Its existing Climate Monitoring System already delivers predictive insights and warnings, up to four days in advance, for wildfire smoke taint risk, extreme weather, soil conditions, pest and disease emergence, and irrigation. The new Arbiter Carbon Monitoring System tracks soil carbon sequestration in real time, quickly detecting carbon loss via carbon dioxide emission events. The firm says it is the only system that continuously monitors and quantifies soil carbon flux for farmers. Predictive Agriculture Arbiter delivers carbon flux data and…
Agricultural data analytics firm, Ceres Imaging, helps many of the world’s largest agriculture land holders detect water, nutrient, disease and pest issues in the field, weeks before they are visually apparent. With an existing presence in the Americas and Australia, the company has just announced its expansion into Europe via the Spanish and Portuguese markets. As part of its European launch, Ceres has built a local customer support team and has established a network of pilots for its high resolution imagery that are flying throughout the major growing areas. “We are encouraged by our reception so far in the region.…
Typically agritech innovations address the needs of those growing in large scale conventional agriculture. For specialty farmers, who often use unique or alternative growing methods, solutions that reduce labour, boost efficiency and increase production are harder to find. Enter US firm Topcon Agriculture, which has introduced Transplanting Control, a new solution for specialty farmers. The turnkey solution provides global navigation satellite system (GNSS) based guidance, autosteering and control, benefitting producers of permanent and perennial trees, fruits and vegetable crops. “Manual measurement is still common practice in areas where specialty and permanent crops are grown,” says Michael Stone, vice president of…
John Deere is future-proofing its Precision Ag Technology with a series of updates. Important new components are the brand-new John Deere G5 display family and the new JDLink™ M modem. Through these updates John Deere aims to make its Precision Ag Technology faster, more powerful, and more affordable for every farmer and contractor. The New John Deere G5 Display Family The brand new G5 display family delivers full HD resolution, additional memory and increased processing power to make the G5 monitor one of the most powerful displays available. It comes with two portable versions, which can be used on all brands,…
Queensland, Australia is home to SwarmFarm Robotics, an agritech firm which this week announced it has raised US$8.3 million (A$12 million) in a Series A funding round led by Canadian VC – Emmertech. Founded in 2015, SwarmFarm Robotics is pioneering the development and use of intelligent robotics in Australian agriculture through Integrated Autonomy. What is Integrated Autonomy? Integrated Autonomy is a term used to describe a system or technology that combines autonomous capabilities with human decision-making and control. It refers to the integration of autonomous systems, such as robots or vehicles, with human operators or decision-makers in a way that…
US industrial technology firm Trimble will be 45 years old in November. This week Trimble Autonomy has announced its new advanced path planning technology as it takes the next step towards fully autonomous equipment. The new advanced path planning solution will provide Trimble’s end users and equipment manufacturers with the ability to optimise and automate the trajectory, speed and overall path design of farming and other industrial machinery. With Trimble Autonomy, manufacturers worldwide can now provide their customers with an easy-to-integrate, automated solution that works not only with Trimble systems, but also with an equipment manufacturer’s existing system. The technology…
Chicago based Titan International, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of off-highway wheels, tyres, assemblies, and undercarriage products. Now the firm is introducing the first-ever R-2 deep-tread tyre in the world’s largest farm tyre size – the LSW1400/30R46. This latest addition to the radial Goodyear Custom Flo Grip line is being brought to market to meet the growing demand for greater combine flotation and traction from growers in regions and applications that face incredibly wet field conditions. “Back in 2016, we introduced the world’s largest ag tyre in our Goodyear OPTITRAC line, which has an R-1W tread. The demand for…
Irish agritech start-up Proveye has secured €1 million in seed funding. A University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, the company is already a leader in remote sensing image analysis for agriculture. Proveye’s SaaS platform integrates data from drones, ground sensors and satellite imagery with AI machine learning to provide accuracy and clarity for grassland mapping and composition analysis. It is used by agricultural advisors, fertiliser and pesticide suppliers and food processors to provide fast and accurate information about productivity and sustainability on agricultural land to their farmer customers. The platform rapidly enhances and compiles selected image…
