February 2, 2026

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UC Cooperative Extension - 2025 rice variety trial results, San Joaquin County and Delta, California 

Heritable Agriculture gets $5M for AI crop resilience as Africa emerges as agtech’s next frontier (AgTech Nvigator)

Malgré la sécheresse, Graines Voltz Maroc est resté stable en 2025 (Le Nouvelliste Maroc)

Genvor appoints Dr. George Stavrides as Executive Vice President, Business Development & Commercialization

España apuesta a la mejora genética de la alfalfa para “revitalizar su sector” (Todo Alfalfa)

January 30, 2026

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Multileaf lettuces offer unique colors, disease resistances

Embrapa abre edital para produção de sementes de trigo tropical

Spearhead Bio named 2026 "Startup to Watch"

Australian-first cereal solution for crown rot and nematodes

Limagrain Iberica - Catálogo de semillas de Maíz en Castilla y León

Feel the crunch in Rijk Zwaan's MyCubies snack cucumbers

The growing importance of Low Vicine/Convicine (LVC) spring bean varieties on the PGRO Descriptive list

Giornata Del Mais 2026 al CREA: la sfida della sostenibilità tra competitività e nuove soluzioni

Aligning wheat breeding with market needs in Ethiopia (Global Agriculture)

TriCal Superior Forage LLC files lawsuit in federal court against Michigan producer over PVP violations (Michigan Farm News)

St. Louis agtech startup Spearhead Bio raises $4M to speed up crop genome editing (St. Louis Business Journal)

Unveiling key genetic loci and candidate genes for brown spot disease resistance in rice based on QTL analysis (Nature)

How hybrid wheat could change farming (PreventionWeb)

New oat pangenome research explains why breeding has been slow and what could change next - Cracking crop’s pangenome could improve breeding decisions, but farmers still years away from seeing practical results (The Western Grower)

First graduates of University of Florida’s plant-breeding Ph.D. use genetics to help growers boost yields, improve shelf life, and more (Central Florida AgNews)

Asia and Pacific Seed Alliance (APSA) January 2026 newsletter

An updated version of the International Seed Health Initiative (ISHI) protocol “Detection of Paracidovorax citrulli in Cucurbit Seeds by SE‑qPCR” is now available on the ISF website

International Seed Federation (ISF) launches the 2026–2030 Key Strategic Objectives

University of Illinois Extension is growing cover crop conversations by connecting farmers to farmers

Il nuovo CEO di Panora è Manuel Weisser, con oltre 20 anni nel settore sementiero (iMille)

Bioceres abandona la producción de semillas: la venderán dos empresas argentinas - Horus Agro y Natal Seeds asumen la comercialización de su portfolio en la Argentina - Este movimiento es parte de una reorientación del grupo y un cambio en su esquema operativo (Cronista)

Estiman que mercado de semillas piratas en México vale 175 mdd - La Asociación Mexicana de Semilleros lanza una campaña sobre los riesgos de adquirir esos productos (Forbes)

Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) researchers to expand self-cloning crop technology for Indian farmers

Embrapa apresenta cultivares de tomate e pimenta na vitrine tecnológica do Show Rural Coopavel

La Unión Europea avanza hacia la adopción comercial de las nuevas técnicas genómicas para la agricultura (Chile Bio)