Raven Industries Inc., a leader in autonomous agriculture technology, announced today the purchase of a second OMNiPOWER platform by Haggerty AgRobotics, allowing them to lead the industry as one of the first customers to implement a real-world fleet of autonomous machines.

According to the latest Crop Progress report from USDA, some 96% of corn was reported emerged, above both the 94% emerged last year and the 90% emerged in the week prior. The 5-year average emergence rate for this week was 91%.

SupPlant, a precision agriculture hardware-software solution, announced its recent funding round, raising $10 million to accelerate its industry defining and disrupting sensor-less irrigation API product.