Sean Yokomizo of InnerPlant demos the company’s cutting-edge CropVoice insights platform that “listens” to plants engineered to signal fungal stress for early detection.
CropVoice sensors were triggered by a fungal infection in Yankton County, S.D., and northern Cedar County, Neb., and sent out the first-ever disease alert to farmers, indicating that the field was infected.
The Precision Farming Dealer crew racked up nearly 100,000 steps combined Tuesday and Wednesday at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., tracking down the latest equipment and technology innovations.
We head inside the Varied Industries tent at the 2025 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., for a look at InnerPlant’s groundbreaking CropVoice technology. The seed technology company launched the first-of-its-kind platform, powered by a network of plots featuring InnerSoy
The InnerPlant imaging device is scheduled to launch in Q1 of 2024 and its deployment will mark the first time in history that a signal from a human-engineered organism is detected from orbit.
The specially designed imaging instrument is scheduled to be mounted to a Satellogic satellite and is intended to detect optical signals emitted by crops engineered by InnerPlant to fluoresce in response to stress such as an attack from pathogens or a lack of water or nutrients.
According to a Sept. 19 report from TechCrunch, InnerPlant — a startup recoding plant DNA, allowing the plant to emit a signal that can be detected remotely — recently completed $16 million in Series A funding, which included a contribution from John Deere.
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