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This episode covers significant developments in global crop traits, major mergers and acquisitions in the agtech sector, and sustainability initiatives in agriculture.

📺 Watch on YouTube and Spotify Welcome back, listeners! This is episode one hundred of AgTech Digest — and we're marking the milestone with a packed week. In today's episode, we cover global crop trait developments and the rise of breeding factories, two nine-figure deals from FMC and SKK Holdings, Corteva naming its Vylor genetics spinoff, Bayer and bp's camelina biofuel alliance, PepsiCo's fertilizer decarbonization move with TalusAg, and Cattler raising $2 million for AI cattle operations. Let's get started! Here’s a Quick Snapshot of What’s Making Headlines: Analysis: Global Crop Trait Developments: breeding factories replace patents as the competitive moat, compressing decade-long cycles to three years, with Vylor's spinoff and resistance trait breakthroughs defining the new architecture M&A: FMC agrees to sell India commercial business to Crystal Crop Protection for $252M; SKK Holdings acquires Rantizo drone assets for $258.8M; EY Brazil acquires MB Agro for agribusiness intelligence Biologicals: Suterra acquires Vestaron's Spear and Basin biological pest control product lines and R&D pipeline, including EPA-approved US products and Kalamazoo research assets…

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