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The catalyst for the partnership agreement is Indigo’s new CLIPS device — an innovative flowable powder seed coating application system.

Indigo Ag and GROWMARK announced a major multi-year strategic partnership to bring new innovative powder-based biological products and sustainability programming to GROWMARK’s member companies and farmers. Now, farmers will be able to conveniently access and benefit from Indigo’s market-leading suite of biological and sustainability solutions through their local FS cooperatives.

The catalyst for the partnership agreement is Indigo’s new CLIPS device — an innovative flowable powder seed coating application system.

GROWMARK COO, Wade Mittelstadt, said, “Biological products have the potential to deliver valuable benefits for growers, but utilising them on the farm can be a challenge due to stability, shelf-life, and application constraints. Indigo’s CLIPS system addresses all of those hurdles and is an incredibly easy and innovative solution. We’re very excited to be able to offer this technology, along with Indigo’s science-based and proven portfolio of biotrinsic® products through our network of FS cooperatives in more than 15 states and provinces across North America.”

The strategic partnership provides retailers and farmers full access to Indigo’s broad and continually evolving portfolio of biotrinsic® products, proven in over 2000+ field trials to help boost crop yields and farm profitability through improved water and nutrient use efficiency, drought tolerance, and plant productivity. It also includes Indigo’s innovative bionematicide and biofungicide products.

Jon Giebel, VP of Product Strategy at Indigo said, “Although the CLIPS device is only available with Indigo’s biotrinsic® products in 2025, the new agreement with GROWMARK opens the discussion for future third-party product access to the CLIPS system providing even greater choice to farmers. We believe that the CLIPS platform offers a new industry standard that will unlock the next generation of high-performing biological active ingredients, and through our partnership with GROWMARK, we will bring these products to farmers at scale.”

Additionally, GROWMARK has been working closely with Indigo’s sustainability portfolio since 2021 and has continued to drive adoption of Indigo’s industry-leading carbon program. Today’s announcement builds upon that collaboration to now include pilots in the insets market for food/feed as well as fuels. As an example of these new initiatives, Indigo and GROWMARK member companies will partner on proactive data collection and carbon intensity scoring to ensure that growers and ethanol producers are ready to take advantage of incentives once 45z guidance is finalized.

“GROWMARK has been a driving force in the industry for many years, and we are pleased that we can work together to offer innovative economic and agronomic solutions to farmers alongside the expertise of GROWMARK member cooperatives,” said Dean Banks, Indigo CEO. “We’ve seen great success in our three-year Carbon partnership to date, and now we reaffirm our shared commitment to innovation by working together to help hundreds of thousands of farmers capture value from the next frontiers in agriculture.”

Mark Orr, GROWMARK CEO, said, “Innovation is a key component of GROWMARK’s enterprise strategy. We’re constantly evaluating new and novel product offerings through our AgValidity and MiField trial programs, as well as through our venture capital fund, Cooperative Ventures. This innovative strategic partnership with Indigo will create value for our member-owners, both through the licensing of the groundbreaking CLIPS system, as well as through Indigo’s market-leading biological portfolio.”

The catalyst for the partnership agreement is

Agrotech, North America

The new robotic device scans field ecosystems providing detailed real-time data

Solinftec, a global leader in agricultural digitalisation, will expand upon its partnership with GROWMARK, one of North America’s largest agricultural cooperatives, with a collaborative project focussed on a new cutting-edge AgTech robotic device.

With more than 15 years of experience developing digital ag solutions throughout various geographies and crops around the world, Solinftec’s new robot is state-of-the-art technology built to scan and monitor fields. This, connected with Solinftec’s ALICE platform, works together to orchestrate machine operations. Programmed with a neurological network featuring a complex detection algorithm, the new in-field robotic device has the ability not only to scan for crop health and nutrition, insects, and weeds but is built to monitor the entire field ecosystem and provide real-time insights.

The goal is to provide farmers and agronomists with a new level of information to increase yields, improve inputs usage, lowering environmental impact.

GROWMARK will collaborate with Solinftec to run the robot throughout the entire 2022 season where it will fine-tune the technology of agriculture operations in North America from planting to harvesting.

“GROWMARK and our System of FS Cooperative members are recognised as cutting-edge partners by the Farmer of the Future,” says GROWMARK Innovation Director Heather Thompson. “We believe in leading the market with products and technologies customers didn’t know they needed but can’t imagine their operation without.”

“We are looking at the future of farming,” adds Lance Ruppert, GROWMARK’s director of agronomy marketing technology. “We have been working with and utilizing Solinftec’s leading agricultural technologies for over three years and are excited to partner on a project with the potential to change farm practices for the better of the industry and environment.”

With the launch of its new AgTech robot and current ALICE technologies, Solinftec continues to be committed to protecting and respecting its users’ privacy, abiding by core data privacy principles to protect data. Farmers and users maintain ownership of their data and may choose to share results at their discretion.

The new robotic device scans field ecosystems