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AI Won’t Replace Ranchers. But It Will Change Who Wins.

AI can analyse data. 

AI can generate recommendations. 

But someone still has to make things happen in the real world. 

DIT AgTech combines hardware, AI, nutrition automation and real-time data to turn intelligence into action across livestock operations. 

It gives ranchers technology that works alongside them, automating supplementation and helping them produce more with less. 

That's Physical AI. 

And it's already operating in the real world, across 500+ deployed units and 370,000 head of livestock on the platform. 

As AI moves from screens into the physical economy, DIT AgTech is building the infrastructure for it in livestock production. 

And the market is massive. 

Livestock is still one of the world's least automated major industries. The race to bring Physical AI to it has barely begun. 

Be one of the first to see where this is going.

𝘐𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥. 𝘋𝘐𝘛 𝘈𝘨𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘊 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦: https://bit.ly/4bzuWCi

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Through 30 October the iGrow Intelligence database holds 104 fruit and berry records for 2026, against 36 for the same period in 2025. Recorded capital, funding rounds, ownership changes, partnerships and product unveils all rose in count, bankruptcies fell from one to none, and the shares held by partnerships and product launches fell even as their raw numbers grew.

This edition covers land-based agriculture and agtech only. Aquaculture, energy and water are tracked separately and excluded here. The scope filter is any record carrying a fruit or berry crop tag, covering berries, grapes and vineyards, citrus, apples, bananas, avocados, cherries, melons and tree fruit. Tree nuts, cocoa, coffee, palm oil and tea sit in other crop families and are out of scope. The windows compared are 1 January to 30 October 2026 and 1 January to 30 October 2025, with 30 October the latest date in the database.

One caveat applies throughout. Records for 2025 are still being backfilled, so the raw volume gap overstates real growth. Shares of activity are the more reliable measure, and this edition uses them wherever the base supports one.

The database snapshot

104
Fruit and berry records, 1 Jan to 30 Oct 2026 (36 a year earlier)
$501.1M
Recorded capital, excluding the USDA's $1B specialty crop program ($26.5M a year earlier)
21
Countries with at least one record (14 a year earlier)

Each figure counts something specific. The record count is every database entry in the window carrying a fruit or berry crop tag, across every news type, so funding, partnerships, launches and appointments together. The capital figure sums every recorded instrument, so venture equity, debt, grants, government programs and project investment together, and it strips out the USDA's $1 billion Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers program, filed with ninety-five crop tags, which would otherwise swamp every other entry. Including it, recorded capital reaches $1,501.1 million.

Activity widened to seven more countries, and citrus, apples and cherries went from no tags to twenty-one

The United States led both years, with 42 of 104 records in 2026 and 10 of 36 in 2025. The United Kingdom came second on 12, up from 2, and the Netherlands third on 9, up from 5. Those three held 60.6% of activity against 52.8% last year, so the leaders concentrated slightly even as the base widened from 14 countries to 21. Behind them, France and Israel each moved from 1 record to 6 and Germany from 2 to 5. Ten countries appear in 2026 with no 2025 entry, among them Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Oman and Vietnam. Three went the other way, with Singapore, Mexico and Australia recorded in 2025 and absent this year.

On crops, strawberries led both years, with 30 strawberry tags in 2026 against 14 in 2025. Grape and table grape tags appear 20 times against 4, and vineyard tags 8 times against none. The sharpest change is the arrival of crops with no presence in the 2025 window: citrus at 9 tags, apples at 7 and cherries at 5, all from zero. Two tagging effects matter here. The database carries singular and plural variants of a crop as separate tags, so tag mentions run ahead of distinct records, and the USDA program record alone carries ninety-five crop tags, which inflates the thin end of any crop ranking.

Where the records sit
Fruit and berry records by company location, count, 1 Jan to 30 Oct 2026
United States
 
42
United Kingdom
 
12
Netherlands
 
9
Israel
 
6
France
 
6
Germany
 
5
Source: iGrow Intelligence database, 1 Jan to 30 Oct 2026. Agriculture & agtech only.
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