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FRUTECH 2025: SICILY, THE CAPITAL OF MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT AND VEGETABLE INNOVATION

With an increasing number of exhibitors and professionals, Frutech 2025 confirms its role as a key reference point for the agri-food supply chain, bringing together producers, consortia, technology companies, and international buyers.

Multi-Zone Greenhouse Lighting: A Practical Guide to Advanced Dynamic LEDs

Learn how an advanced dynamic LED solution improves yield, quality, and energy efficiency in each bay of a multi-zoned greenhouse.

Lighting Innovation at Tomatoworld

Tomatoworld’s decision to switch from HPS lights to LED lights was mainly driven by the aim to reduce energy consumption. The new lighting was designed to improve crop visibility for visitors while also supporting research activities involving cameras, sensors, and robots.

How Cameras Power AI-Driven Autonomous Weeding Robots in Precision Agriculture

Autonomous weeding robots are modernizing agriculture by using AI vision capabilities to identify and remove weeds with speed and consistency. They rely on high-quality imaging to distinguish weeds from crops, even at early stages of growth.

Overcoming Damage With Data | Why Agricultural Monitoring Matters Even More Now

In modern farming reality, fast and accurate agricultural monitoring is indispensable. Operating without comprehensive real-time monitoring is essentially trying to farm blindfolded, making it akin to guessing rather than deciding.

Using Advanced Technologies to Understand Methane Emissions in the Biogas Industry

While both biogas and RNG are cleaner forms of methane compared to the other industries that produce the gas, they still have an environmental impact when emitted into the atmosphere.

Rugged electric actuators provide reliable steering for extensible, self-driving platform

Whether OxDrive’s next application is in agritech, construction, forestry, warehouse logistics or any other untapped use, chances are good that it will need a reliable actuator. And when it does, Horton will likely continue specifying Thomson linear motion solutions.

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Engineering for peat-free production - Increasing sustainability in horticultural manufacturing

To reduce its environmental impact, a UK based manufacturer of composts and growing substrates, wanted to expand its peat-free product range. To achieve this, it turned to Technidrive, a specialist supplier of motors and drives, to engineer the system.

Cybersecurity Risks of AI in Precision Agriculture

Precision agriculture is leveraging AI to automate processes and increase crop yields per season. However, its use brings an increased threat of cybersecurity attacks that manipulate data and harm operations.

ZAPI GROUP Advances High-Voltage Capabilities for Sustainable Agricultural Machinery

ZAPI GROUP’s new capabilities help agricultural Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) increase efficiency, sustainability, and productivity through high-voltage power management and intelligent system integration.

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Don't Delay Weed Control Decisions until Spring

Next season's weed management planning should start now, according to WSSA member scientists

UbiQD Secures $6M in Growth Capital from Silicon Valley Bank, Appoints Tony Beams as Chief Financial Officer

Venture debt financing will accelerate quantum dot manufacturing scale-up in New Mexico

Strategic Consultation Brings Stakeholders Together to Shape Maharashtra's Natural Farming Policy

As the state increasingly confronts climate-related challenges, the consultation marked an important step toward building an agriculture system grounded in soil health, ecological balance, and resilient farmer livelihoods.

Gluten-Free Products Market Size to Reach USD 12.7 billion by 2034

As per the report by Global Market Insights, Inc. Worldwide Gluten-Free Products Market was valued USD 7.7 billion in 2024 and will surpass a revenue collection of USD 12.7 billion by 2034 with an annual growth rate of 5.4% over 2025 to 2034.

Syngenta's REVERTE® Program Honored as Best-in-Class for Transforming Agriculture

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) spotlights Syngenta as a climate champion at COP 30

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Elmo Motion Control – The Platinum Line, a new era in servo control

Elmo Motion Control - The Platinum Line, a new era in servo control

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Sollum Technologies

Sollum Technologies

Sollum Technologies offers a 100% dynamic LED lighting solution that modulates the full spectrum of the Sun's natural light. With our cloud-based platform SUN as a Service® and our smart fixtures, enjoy the flexibility of unlimited light recipes & multi-zone light management, and automatic dimming that provides the right amount of light in real time at any given time to save energy.