Digital Agriculture
New UK chief for Kynetec
Agricultural and animal health market research bureau Kynetec has appointed Robert Bakewell as senior director of its Real Time Trackers team, responsible for delivering tracking data on the use of crop protection, seed and animal health products. He will be based at...
read moreBayer to launch ClimateFieldView digital platform in Europe
Bayer, which recently started the integration of the Monsanto business it finally acquired earlier this year, held a Future of Farming event held at its research headquarters at Monheim in Germany recently. President of Bayer Crop Science Liam Condon said the future...
read moreGrosvenor invests in AgriWebb digital platform
A UK agri-food investment fund has made an £8m investment into an Australian digital agriculture platform. The deal includes the sale of a Northern Ireland-based dairy management software business. The Wheatsheaf Group, a Grosvenor Estates company, has bought a...
read moreAllflex adds to precision livestock portfolio
The livestock identification specialist Allflex has acquired a German manufacturer of radio-frequency identification systems (RFID) to strengthen its electronic animal identification capability. Allflex, now part of the French Antelliq company formed in early 2018 to...
read moreDigital farming specialist for Hutchinsons
Crop production specialist Hutchinsons has appointed Lewis McKerrow as its digital farming manager. Mr McKerrow has spent the last 10 years as an agronomist for Agrovista, latterly as head of precision technology, with responsibility for precision farming initiatives...
read moreHow “big data” can help agribusinesses
Agricultural data handling specialist Proagrica has surveyed 5,000 agricultural input distributors in the United States to ascertain the challenges facing their business and the way that technology can help surmount them. The company believes the findings are also...
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