CURRENT HEADLINES

• Corteva Agriscience And AgPlenus Announce Collaboration For The Development Of Novel Herbicides

  Corteva Agriscience (NYSE: CTVA), a leading pure-play agriculture company, and AgPlenus, a subsidiary of Evogene Ltd., (NASDAQ: EVGN) (TASE: EVGN), today announced that they have entered into a multi-year collaboration for the development of novel herbicides.

• Procurant Partners With Cropland Audits To Enhance Produce Safety

  Procurant, a Silicon Valley technology company transforming the global food supply chain, today announced a partnership with Cropland Audits Inc., an Idaho-based food safety consulting firm focused on the agriculture industry.

• Soy Innovation Challenge To Award Disruptive Innovators

  U.S. soybean farmers principally are price takers in the existing soybean supply chain, without transparent access to market signals originating from end users.

• Minebea Intec Dedicated To Delivering Quality Inspection And Weighing Technologies During COVID-19 Crisis

  The outbreak of the coronavirus is restricting our world. The pandemic is causing supply bottlenecks worldwide due to increased demands for goods, limited production capacities and local import and export restrictions. Like any other company, producers of food, beverages or pharmaceuticals must face the COVID-19 risk. At the same time, they play an important role in supplying the population with essential goods. The global manufacturer of industrial weighing and inspection technologies, Minebea Intec, is aware of the urgency of an uninterrupted supply chain and offers its customers exceptional support and special measures as immediate counteractions against the coronavirus.

• Vtops Exports CE-Approved VFFS Powder Packing Machine To A Major Food Company In Europe

  On March 26, 2020, Zhengzhou Vtops Machinery Co., Ltd. exported a CE-approved VFFS packing machine to Mr. RH in Europe.

• Duravant Completes Acquisition Of WECO

  Duravant LLC (“Duravant”), a global engineered equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, announced the completion of its acquisition of Woodside Electronics Corporation (“WECO”), a leading manufacturer of optical color and defect sorting equipment.

• StePac's Functional Packaging Enhances Food Safety And Security

  The European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (EUROPEN) called on the European Commission on 20 March to recognise packaging as an essential component in maintaining the uninterrupted flow of product groups that the Commission has identified as critical such as "health-related and perishable goods, notably foodstuffs.[¹]"

• Inland Cellular And Trilogy Networks Partner For The Rural Cloud Initiative

  Inland Cellular today announced plans to join the Rural Cloud Initiative, a nationwide strategic alliance with Trilogy Networks to accelerate digital transformation in the 2nd most diverse agricultural region in the US.

• Mobile Inline Rotor/Stator Homogenizers For Efficient High Shear Mixing

  ROSS inline high shear mixers from 1 through 250 HP accelerate mixing, emulsification and homogenization in both recirculation and continuous modes. A mobile skid allows these machines to be used anywhere in a plant, saving time and money by eliminating the need for multiple mixers separately dedicated to each vessel or product

• Minebea Intec Announces New Industrial Scale Series With Quality and Affordability In Mind

  With the introduction of the new industrial scale Puro series, Minebea Intec’s leading technologies are now available in an affordable range. With an extensive range and a variety of applications, a large number of innovative industrial weighing solutions are now available as part of the Puro range. This means that customers benefit from a high-quality product from a leading manufacturer of weighing and inspection technology, that is available at an affordable price. Every model is created with the customer’s requirements in mind.