At Plant & Food Research, we believe science can create a better future.
By finding smarter, greener options today. We’re helping secure the world we want to live in tomorrow.
With our partners, we use world-leading science to improve the way they grow, fish, harvest and share food. Every day, we have 1000 people working across Aotearoa New Zealand and the world to help deliver healthy foods from the world’s most sustainable systems.
New fruits, better grains, less chemicals, stronger biosecurity, higher yields, great nutrition, reduce waste.
We answer complex biological questions; we design innovative products and technologies; and we look over the horizon for new ways to make a smart green future.
As an industry-good organisation, we help New Zealand dairy farmers lead the world in sustainable dairying by investing in research, new solutions and advocacy.
CropX is one of the world's fastest-growing providers of AgTech solutions, deployed in over 50 countries and across all arable continents. Our flagship product, the CropX agronomic farm management system, synthesizes data from soil to sky to offer advanced soil and crop intelligence and a suite of digital agronomic decision and planning tools, all on an easy-to-use app capable of tracking multiple farms and fields.
Since 2020, CropX has been consolidating world-class technology to provide an impactful, all-in-one and easy-to-use solution for the complicated challenges faced by farms today. These acquisitions take regional technology to a global scale and accelerate market reach for an urgent response to the climate crisis.
Impact:
Using the CropX system farms, advisors, and food companies can access data from soil, satellites, weather, crops, and much more. The system provides specific insights for irrigation, crop protection, nitrogen monitoring, and effluent irrigation. CropX also offers APIs for other AgTech providers.
Farms optimize their water, chemical, and fertilizer use, ensuring they are maximizing yields while minimizing environmental impact. Agronomic advisors help their customers get the best results with confident, real-time-data-led decisions. Food companies connect with supplier farms, helping them achieve better outcomes, ensuring a more resilient supply chain and meeting their climate pledges.
Investors and Partners:
CropX is backed by the world’s leading agribusinesses and VCs, who recognize that CropX’s precision-ag technologies set new standards of best practices for environmental sustainability and greater farm productivity. Learn more at www.cropx.com
CropX Technologies acquisitions:
• 2020 – CropMetrics, United States (retired brand
• 2020 – Regen Ag, New Zealand (retired brand)
• 2021 – Dacom Farm Intelligence, Netherlands
• 2023 – Tule Technologies, California USA
• 2023 – Green Brain, Australia