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French agtech company Agriodor has raised €15 million to expand its scent-based crop protection technology, which uses plant-emitted scents to influence insect behavior as an alternative to conventional insecticides. Founded in 2019, Agriodor’s products target pests without toxicity, recently achieving commercial deployment in French sugar beet fields and partnering with Syngenta. The approach promises faster, cheaper development, circumvents resistance issues, and supports biodiversity, with plans for international expansion and broader crop applications. With new funding, Agriodor aims to scale its olfactory biocontrol solutions globally through continued R&D and strategic partnerships.

Rovensa Next has launched a global initiative combining an AI-powered knowledge platform and a structured training academy to deliver more practical, crop-specific, and evidence-based biosolutions support for distributors and growers. The AI platform consolidates agronomic data and field trial insights to enable faster, more consistent recommendations, while the Training Academy builds consultative and leadership capabilities for teams. This effort is part of Rovensa Next’s broader “Biosolutionize Agriculture” strategy to position biosolutions as integrated, science-backed tools for profitability and sustainability. The program is rolling out globally, aiming to shift the focus from product sales to delivering tailored, actionable support in the field.

Corteva inches closer to its eventual split, announcing CEOs and executive teams for spin-off companies, SpinCo and New Corteva.

Farmers are feeling the pinch from higher fertilizer prices, but the impact is not uniform across the U.S.