CURRENT HEADLINES

• Endress+Hauser Expands Flow Calibration Capabilities

  12/1/2021

  Endress+Hauser expands its calibration capabilities in the U.S. with a new flow calibration rig located at the company’s recently inaugurated Houston Campus. The rig will service customers’ flowmeters, including those from third-party vendors, and will have expanded line size and flowrate capabilities.

• Messer Converts Chilling And Freezing Lines To Liquid Nitrogen, Improves Cryogen Supply

  11/30/2021

  Messer is helping food processors during the COVID-19 pandemic by installing innovative cryogenic technologies to address production challenges. As consumer demand shifts to retail channels, the cryogenic technologies are boosting production of existing processing lines and quickly adding capacity to new lines.

• EnginZyme Joins Forces With Leading Food Processing Company To Improve Food & Beverage Production

  11/29/2021

  EnginZyme, a leading developer of cell-free biomanufacturing processes, today announced that the company has signed a joint development agreement with a global processing company to improve food and beverage production.

• Microbiome Enables New Strategies For Healthy And Climate-Resilient Crops

  11/26/2021

  A new study shows that apple trees inherit their microbiome to the same extent as their genes. The results lay the foundation for new breeding strategies for healthy and climate-robust fruit and vegetables. DEEP researcher Ayco Tack and former DEEP researcher Ahmed Abdelfattah now at TU Graz, were co-authors of the study.

• Intelligent Ag Launches Recon Spraysense™

  11/26/2021

  Intelligent Agricultural Solutions, LLC (Intelligent Ag) announced the release of Recon SpraySense™, an innovative solution that monitors real-time flow and pressure of all nozzles on sprayers.

• Gliricidia Intercropping In Zambia Shows Promising Results

  11/25/2021

  The species Gliricidia sepium is a deciduous tree, cultivated and used for a variety of purposes in tropical regions. In Zambia, it is used for timber, firewood, medicine, charcoal, living fences, and plantation shading.

• SMART Researchers Develop Method For Early Detection Of Bacterial Infection In Crops

  11/18/2021

  Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore and their local collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL), have developed a rapid Raman spectroscopy-based method for the detection and quantification of early bacterial infection in crops.

• Corteva Agriscience And Manna Announce Agreement On Seed Production Irrigation Management

  11/16/2021

  Corteva Agriscience, one of the world's largest agriculture companies, and Manna Irrigation, a leading provider of irrigation intelligence software solutions, have announced a new contract to enhance effective irrigation practices.

• PepsiCo Announces A New Goal To Advance Food Security For 50 Million People By 2030

  11/16/2021

  Today, PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) announced a new goal to help 50 million people gain ready access to nutritious foods by 2030 (2020 baseline) through its Food for Good food security program and the expansion of PepsiCo's affordable nutrition offerings as part of its PepsiCo Positive (pep+) journey.

• Farmers Edge Partners With Brazil-Based Agriculture Barter Operator Gira, The Ag Tech From Santander Bank

  11/16/2021

  Farmers Edge Inc. (“Farmers Edge” or the “Company”), a pure-play digital agriculture company, has partnered with Gira, a modern multiplatform provider dedicated to supporting growers and funding crop production through barter.