AgNavigator News
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John Deere’s largest air cart provides enhanced seeding capacity and precision agriculture capabilities, designed to make large ag producers more efficient.
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Syngenta is leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of crop protection products, using predictive modeling and generative design to optimize multiple parameters simultaneously and significantly shorten R&D timelines. The company emphasizes that AI will augment, not replace, scientists and farmers, with humans remaining central to decision-making. AI is already integrated across Syngenta’s digital platforms, enhancing data collection, product customization, and the feedback loop between growers and researchers. Syngenta remains mindful of AI’s environmental footprint, ensuring its use delivers greater agronomic and environmental benefits than the resources it consumes.
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BugBiome, a Norwich-based agri-biotech company, has secured a £500,000 Innovate UK grant for a 24-month project to develop a biological insecticide targeting cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB), a major threat to UK oilseed rape crops. In partnership with the John Innes Centre, Harper Adams University, and Applied Insect Science, the initiative leverages leading expertise in pest biology and biopesticide development to address the urgent need for sustainable crop protection as synthetic pesticide options decline.