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Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Nathan Owens

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Bonsai Robotics raised $15 million from investors to advance production of its automated harvester Visionsteer, which uses artificial intelligence to pick fruits and nuts in orchards. The recent funding will be used to enhance Bonsai’s software and expand the startup’s artificial intelligence platform and data set, according to a news release.
Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Sarah Zimmerman

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As rising costs and regulatory uncertainty challenge farmers' efforts to adopt regenerative agriculture practices, an innovative new pilot with support from the Walton family looks to help finance the transition through discounts in private conservation loans.
Meat giant JBS breaks into the egg business

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Sarah Zimmerman

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. World’s largest meat company JBS plans to crack into the egg industry through a merger with a major South American producer. JBS said Monday that it acquired a 50% stake in Mantiqueira Brasil, one of the largest producers in South America with an output of 4 billion eggs per year. Control of the company will be shared with Mantiqueira founder Leandro Pinto.
Cargill, Foster Farms to close turkey plants as demand wanes

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Nathan Owens

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Cargill Inc. and Foster Farms are closing two turkey production plants this year, resulting in layoffs of more than 1,600 people. Cargill will close its Springdale, Arkansas, turkey plant on Aug.
Smithfield falls short of expectations in muted IPO

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Nathan Owens

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Smithfield Foods is raising $522 million through its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The price was lower than the nation’s leading pork producer had expected.
US detects rare bird flu strain H5N9 in poultry for first time

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Sarah Zimmerman

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The United States confirmed its first case of the rare avian influenza strain H5N9, raising concern among experts who worry the finding shows that the bird flu virus is mutating. The strain was found on a duck meat farm in California in November 2024, the World Organization for Animal Health said in an update Monday. Officials quarantined the farm, which subsequently killed all 119,000 birds.
Trump freeze on federal grants and loans sparks confusion in agriculture

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Justin Bachman |Sarah Zimmerman

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A Trump administration pause on financial assistance programs has agriculture groups scrambling to understand what it means for farmers who depend on the billions of dollars in federal funding from a number of key programs. The Office of Management and Budget announced a spending freeze that affects a variety of government funding programs for things like foreign aid and educational grants.
Deere loses appeal against Agco in patent dispute over precision planting technology

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Nathan Owens

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Agco Corp defeated an appeal brought by Deere & Co. after an appellate court upheld a verdict that the company’s Precision Planting’s high-speed planting system did not infringe on the tractor giant's intellectual property.
Egg prices could break more records in 2025

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Sarah Zimmerman

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Consumers across the country have recently been shell shocked by empty grocery store shelves and the exorbitant cost of eggs. But sky-high prices aren’t likely to come down anytime soon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday, as a worsening avian influenza outbreak forces farmers to kill millions of birds. Prices are hovering near all-time highs in markets across the United States.
USDA slow to update food safety standards for meat and poultry, watchdog finds

2 months ago | agriculturedive.com | Nathan Owens

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Department of Agriculture still has yet to finalize or update many safety standards that are meant to protect against the risk of foodborne illness from meat and poultry products, the Government Accountability Office found, as food recalls surged in 2024.