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Familiar Face Wins Latest Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge

The American team Koala was named the winner of the third edition of the Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The team consists of the start-up company Koidra and researchers from Cornell University. Team captain and Koidra founder Kenneth Tran also led the winning team of the first edition.

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DIC and Debut Biotech Advance and Scale Biomanufacturing of Sustainable Red Colorants for Food, Nutrition, and Cosmetics

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DIC Corporation announced the start of the second phase of a joint development agreement with California-based biotech startup Debut Biotechnology, Inc. (Debut Biotech), a synthetic biology company at the forefront of advanced biomanufacturing technology. The agreement focuses on creating natural red colorants for the food, nutrition, and cosmetics industries.

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Wilbur-Ellis Partners with Guardian Agriculture in Multi-Million Dollar Agreement to Bring Autonomous Aerial Application to Growers Across America

The largest agricultural robotics investment commitment to date brings leading innovation in autonomous aircraft to the agriculture industry.

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FarmWise selected for TIME's 2020 Best Inventions

With its shunning of chemicals, organic farming can seem like a low-tech pursuit. But this weed-destroying robot, weighing in at about 3 tons, would like to have a word about that.

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AgroSpheres – Forbes 30 Under 30 Recognition

AgroSpheres was selected to the Manufacturing & Industry Category of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 List.

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Sound Agriculture is Partnering with Syngenta to Reduce Nitrogen Use in China

The collaboration has the potential of reducing nitrogen application by 7.5 million metric tons annually in China alone. This is the equivalent of removing 220 million tons of CO2, or 50 million cars from the road each year.

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Insect farming startup raises $9.3M, builds North America’s largest mealworm facility east of Seattle

Beta Hatch is planning to grow more than insects east of Seattle in Cashmere, Wash. The 5-year-old startup is growing its entire operation and in the process has raised $9.3 million in new funding, the company announced Friday.

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Cavallo Ventures Hires Brett Morris as Managing Director  Venture capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis focuses on technology, innovation

“Brett will help us identify early-stage investment opportunities, as well as managing these relationships, evaluating the valuation of investment opportunities and negotiating investment parameters and deal structures.

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