The leading global company for the production of special minerals and chemicals (ICL) acquires US-based agro-digital services company Growers Holdings, Inc. It announced that it has acquired the innovative company Growers Holdings, Inc.
A platform of manufacturers' agronomic services expands decision-making opportunities for farmers, agronomists and other agro professionals, creating easily adaptable and executable recommendations based on data.
It collects and structures farm manual and machine data, instantly creating flexible, return-oriented planting plans, fertilizers and purchase decisions that are transferred to agricultural machinery for easy field use.
Did you know? Nitrogen fertilizers are literally made from air, so the price of them is determined only by the price of energy.
“By combining a one-of-a-kind manufacturers platform with ICL's comprehensive agronomic know-how, we are accelerating our market reach and development roadmap. To create an unprecedented digital service offering focused on providing agro-professionals with unique access to unused and unstructured data in a simple, efficient and fast way, ”says Raviv Zoller, President and CEO of ICL.
“Agriculture is an industry that affects every person on the planet,” said Stephen Valencin, founder and CEO of Growers. “We are very pleased to be united in this mission with the ICL.” In addition, the ICL announced on Wednesday that Yoram Sadan was appointed head of the ICL digital services business starting in March 2020.
- Specialists of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation prepared a whole package of changes for the existing process of passing the technical inspection of various types of agricultural special equipment. in particular, we are talking about inspection of self-propelled vehicles.
- In the period from January 1 to July 1, 2019, the volume of export of specialized agricultural machinery manufactured by Russian manufacturers to the German market significantly increased.
- Breedr, a platform for productivity and marketing that transforms the livestock supply chain through smart contracts, chain blocks and machine vision, aims to transform the meat supply chain.
