Impello Biosciences
In recent months, Impello Biosciences enhanced its team, expanded its product lineup, and acquired the U.S. division of Probelte/Agronova. To support this growth, the company has added Megan Foley and Brandon Malm to spearhead growth and support initiatives for growers in the Northwest, California and Arizona. Additionally, Marie Turner, PhD & MFA, has taken on the role of Head of Scientific Communications. With her extensive crop testing program experience, she is collaborating internally with Impello’s Research and Development team to increase available trial data and support Impello as a scientific and educational hub for growers and distributors in the biologicals industry. In a highly competitive selection process, Impello Biosciences was chosen for the 2024 Platform10 cohort, a program that seeks to rigorously test new and promising biological solutions to grower challenges. Impello is set to launch their novel crop biological fungicide in late 2025, which by inducing a plant’s own systemic defense response stops diseases from impacting plant yields. This move underscores the company’s dedication to delivering unique product mechanisms to bring yet unseen solutions to the agriculture sector. LahakX, an agricultural spraying drone technology builder and operator, and AeroSystemsWest, a U.S. manufacturer of heavy lift multirotor platforms, announced a technological and commercial partnership. The two companies will collaborate to launch an autonomous swarm of heavy-payload spraying drones. ASW will focus on building the new drone, while LahakX will concentrate on assembling swarming planning and autopiloting to the new drones. In addition to technology development, the companies will regulate the new drones in California and sell a ready-to-fly solution to their current and new customers. The US-Israeli BIRD Foundation will provide partial funding for the entire project. “We have received numerous customer requests to expand our services to cover more acres and spray more gallons. Swarming is one way to do it. Heavy-payload drone is another way. Through this partnership, we’ll be able to do both,” said Dr. Itzik Turkel, LahakX Co-Founder and CTO. “We were deeply impressed by ASW drones, and we look forward to leveraging the BIRD Foundation resources and jointly developing new technologies and introducing them to the market ASAP.” PickTrace, winner of the AgTech Breakthrough award for Labor Management Solution, is the only all-in-one labor management suite for agriculture. It’s never been this easy to stay compliant, analyze labor costs and run payroll. With PickTrace Onboarding, users can rapidly hire / rehire employees, generate and digitally store their I-9 and W-4 documents and bulk import employees data from PickTrace into their payroll system. Time and productivity is effortlessly tracked in real-time, enabling you and your team to feel confidence in your payroll compliance. Easily pay your workforce with PickTrace Paycards and provide your employees faster access to more of their hard-earned money. PickTrace recently increased its presence in Salinas, Calif. and Yuma, Ariz. focusing on delivering an exceptional customer experience, optimized field processes and operationalized data. For those affected by FSMA 204—FDA Traceability Challenge Winner, Kezzler, has formed a best-in-class solution stack to resolve compliance woes. Kezzler chose Provision this month as the optimal tool for data capture across grower-packer networks. Now able to integrate with Provision, Kezzler can aggregate data from across grower-packer-shipper networks into one central hub for traceability, a solution that can also utilize GS1 standards to identify products and locations, preventing data quality issues at scale. The group has teamed up with DNV, enabling global implementation services and support with over 15,000 staff across 100 countries. See a demo of the powerful integration of GS1, Provision, and Kezzler’s technologies in the recently recorded webinar—“How to Scale FSMA Solutions in Fresh Produce Supply Chains”— available now on YouTube. VineView is excited to be releasing the new PinPoint RTK this year. The PinPoint RTK is a GPS handheld device that links with the VineView App, giving you the power to build hyper-precise maps of vineyards. Using satellite constellations to send corrections up to 3 cm in accuracy, you can build out historical reference maps for production maps, disease spread and more. Make use of the three programmable buttons directly on the device, reducing the amount of time needed to look at a screen while on the field. The PinPoint RTK is waterproof, runs on 8+ hours of battery life, and doesn’t require internet. Contact us at info@vineview.com if you want to learn more.
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