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🎥Totality Biosciences bets on plants to scale human milk oligosaccharides for a wider audience

Several firms now use microbes to produce human milk oligosaccharides for infant formula. But could producing them in plants unlock a broader audience?

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Collin Barnum, PhD, VP R&D at Totality Biosciences. Image credit: Elaine Watson

Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now?

‘The European-only model for black solder fly larvae production faces nearly insurmountable structural challenges,’ claims nextProtein.

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🎥Totality Biosciences bets on plants to scale human milk oligosaccharides for a wider audience

Insect ag recalibrates after a brutal shakeout: Where are the key players now?

Halter says it’s not an agtech company on the heels of $220m Series E

AgriFood Signals: Danone buys protein maker Huel, Miraterra Soil bags $16m, Grab buys Food Panda Taiwan

🎥 Future Food-Tech: Big ideas, hard truths, and the path to scale

Persian Gulf fertilizer crisis: Global food prices could rise 12-18% by the end of 2026, warns Helios AI

South Korea says ‘AI is no longer a choice’ as agrifoodtech funding jumps 171%

How Lumi AI helps CPGs find ‘multi-million-dollar opportunities’ hidden in their supply chain data

SMEY’s Lipid Atlas taps yeast diversity + AI for custom oils via fermentation

Guest article: Food’s fossil reckoning; energy crises are the new normal, and food is next

Guest article: Technology now exists to decouple fertilizer from oil and gas markets

UC Davis launches Food & Health Angels to back foodtech startups as GLP-1 ‘tsunami’ approaches

Investors demand capital efficiency, focus, and no AI-polished pitch decks at World Agri-Tech, Future Food-Tech

Why Agmatix and Growers built ‘the Palantir of agriculture’

How to make regenerative agriculture ‘financially legible’ for agrifood corporates

Private equity in agtech: disciplined, selective, and increasingly hard to ignore

AgriFood Signals: Solugen nabs $36m for nitrogen fertilizer, Corteva & Resurrect Bio partner, the ‘Wikipedia’ of farming

🎥 Ag’s new toolkit: AI, genomics, and robotics converge at World Agri-Tech

Navigating AI’s impact on public and private markets

New report: Agrifoodtech funding is flat but the story is shifting

Unpacking Cargill’s AI strategy to transform R&D in an increasingly complex agrifood system

Dutch insect ag firm Protix shifts focus to Asia: ‘We could be cost competitive there from day one’

🎥 The good, the bad, and the ugly of agrifoodtech investing… in conversation with Adam Bergman

Unibio plans ‘world’s largest single-cell protein plant’ in Saudi Arabia as food security moves up agenda

Precision spraying startup AgZen nets $10m Series B. ‘Quantifiable ROI drove our investment,’ says DCVC Bio

AgriFood Signals: First close for Aqua-Spark Africa fund, Anchr nabs funds for AI in food distribution

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