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Topcon announces Ochs as North American agriculture customer support manager
Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) announces Jared Ochs has joined the company as customer support manager for North America. He will be located in Olathe, Kansas and will report to Robert Lindgren, TPA director of global customer support. Ochs has a background in the precision agriculture industry and most recently worked as the integrated solutions manager at Concordia Tractor, Inc., a John ...
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Agriculture Industry Veteran Kylen Hunt Joins GroGuru as VP of Business Development
Kylen Hunt, a precision agriculture Industry veteran has joined the GroGuru management team as the vice president in business development. In this role, Kylen is focused on developing new business opportunities in agriculture for GroGuru including strategic partnerships and market channel partners. According to Kylen, "Our objective is to connect great technology with great people and as a ...
By GroGuru
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Focus on agri for economic growth as Agribusiness Congress East Africa comes to Kampala in November
There is great excitement in the agricultural sector in Uganda as preparations are underway for the fourth Agribusiness Congress East Africa conference that is taking place in Kampala from 29-30 November. It is the first time that the event is taking place in Uganda. Agribusiness Congress East Africa is a regional platform for discussions and knowledge sharing, to address those pertinent issues ...
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AgEagle Aerial Systems Enters Sales Agreement to Sell Up to $100 Million in Common Stock through Stifel and Raymond James
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, today announced that it has entered into an at-the-market sales agreement with Stifel and Raymond James, effective May 25, 2021, under which AgEagle may sell its common stock, from time to time, for up to $100 million in aggregate sales proceeds in ...
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BIO Thanks Senate Agriculture Committee for Passing Farm Bill
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and other members of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee for including mandatory funding for Energy Title programs and eligibility for renewable chemicals in Farm Bill reauthorization legislation, which passed today on a 15-5 vote in the committee. BIO ...
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In Southern Sudan, A Partnership Promoting Agricultural Development Unveiled
The United States, Netherlands and two leading agriculture-focused nonprofits are collaborating to back the Southern Sudanese government’s efforts “to transform farms into businesses.” The communiqué was signed between the U.S. Agency for International Development, Dutch government, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and International Fertilizer Development Center ...
By SciDev.Net
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AgEagle aerial systems to host corporate update on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 4:30 PM ET
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, will host a webcast on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to provide a corporate update and discuss recent operational highlights. AgEagle CEO Michael Drozd, CFO Nicole Fernandez-McGovern and COO Brandon Torres Declet will host the ...
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AgEagle Aerial Systems Appoints Drone Industry Leader Brandon Torres Declet as New Chief Executive Officer
AgEagle™ Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, today announced that its Board of Directors has named Brandon Torres Declet, current Chief Operating Officer of the Company, as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. He is succeeding J. Michael Drozd who has elected to leave ...
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AgEagle Announces Acquisition of Measure in the Next Step to Become the Company of Choice for End-to-End Drone Solutions
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, today announced its acquisition of Measure Global Inc. (“Measure”), an award-winning aerial intelligence solutions company, in a combination cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $45 million. This is the third acquisition ...
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Martin UAV VTOL unmanned aircraft taps Persistent Systems Wave Relay data link technology
Engineers at Martin UAV LLC in Rohnert Park, Calif., will incorporate Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network(MANET) technology from Persistent Systems LLC in New York into the company’s V-BAT small, vertical takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also commonly called an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) or drone. The companies have entered into a five-year partnership. “The ...
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Leadership Summit to Highlight the Commercial Potential of Emerging Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies at the 2012 BIO International Convention
The 2012 BIO International Convention looks to give a global perspective on regulatory and acceptance issues within the food and agriculture and industrial and environmental sectors of the industry through the Leadership Summit. Hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), this year’s global event for biotechnology will take place June ...
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Checking up on EPA`s Office of Pesticide Programs - A Conversation with Jim Aidala
This week's All Things Chemical Podcast will be of interest to readers of the Pesticide Law & Policy Blog®. A brief description of the episode written by Lynn L. Bergeson is below. This week I sat down with James Aidala, B&C’s Senior Government Affairs Consultant, to catch up on what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is up ...
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AgBiome Launches New Business Unit Focused on Delivering Innovations to Agriculture and Turf and Ornamental Markets
AgBiome, LLC, today announced it has established AgBiome Innovations™, which will commercialize technology identified by the company through its unique Genesis™ discovery and development platform. The division is led by a highly experienced team of agricultural and turf and ornamental industry leaders and is gearing up to launch its first product, a broad-spectrum biological ...
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Anuvia Plant Nutrients Wins 2022 Gold Stevie® In 2022 American Business Awards
Anuvia™ Plant Nutrients the manufacturers of highefficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf, and lawncare industries, was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Food and Beverage Company of the Year category in The 20th Annual American Business Awards®. Anuvia was also recently recognized by Financial Times as One of The Americas’ Fastest ...
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AgEagle Aerial Systems Reports First Quarter 2021 Results
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, today reported its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2021. First Quarter 2021 Key Financial Highlights: Total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2021 increased significantly to approximately $1.7 million compared ...
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Turlock Irrigation District of California Selects OSI Technology for a New Energy Management System
Open Systems International (OSI) has been selected by Turlock Irrigation District (TID) to supply a new advanced Energy Management System (EMS) based on OSI's monarch™ operational technology (OT) platform. This will replace TID's legacy Siemens EMS, providing the utility with a flexible platform to fully modernize and streamline their transmission network as they prepare to enter the California ...
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Agronomy society hires agronomic education manager
Bruce Erickson, a long-time Certified Professional Agronomist and expert in precision agriculture, has joined the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) as its new agronomic education manager. In the position, which is a new one for ASA, Erickson will work to develop the society’s educational programs by giving classes, writing continuing education articles, organizing Webinars, presenting at ...
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MicaSense, an AgEagle Company, to participate in AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2021 Virtual Conference
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS) (“AgEagle” or the “Company”), an industry leading drone solutions provider, today announced that MicaSense, an AgEagle company, is participating in AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2021 virtual conference this week. MicaSense’s Channel Sales Manager, Emily Ciesielski, will host a virtual educational session, titled “Image ...
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Farm machinery and sustainable agriculture must evolve together
Farm machines have revolutionized agriculture and reduced drudgery for millions of farm families and workers, but the machinery of tomorrow will have to do more than that – it will also have to contribute to agriculture that is environmentally sustainable. A new FAO book Mechanization for rural development, a review of patterns and progress from around the world, explores the inexorable ...
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Swaziland is moving towards commercial farming
In a major effort to revitalize agriculture here, the government, the European Union and FAO have helped over 20,000 smallholder farmers produce more, higher-quality food and connect with new markets. Agriculture is on its way to become a key driver of Swaziland’s development. The vast majority of Swaziland’s 1.2 million people depend on subsistence farming. But years of economic ...
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