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🎥 Taste, price, or bust: Bruce Friedrich’s roadmap for alt meat

If meat alternatives are the future, why does the present look so shaky? Bruce Friedrich explains what inspired his new book: MEAT.

Alternative protein

APAC

Elaine Watson (AgFunderNews) and Bruce Friedrich (Good Food Institute)

Exclusive: UPSIDE Foods looks beyond cultivated meat to life sciences with cell culture media spin-off Lucius Labs

Cell culture media products from Lucius Labs will target human and animal health bioprocessing applications from tissue engineering and stem cell therapy to vaccine production.

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Biomanufacturing & biologicals

AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund

Plus: Gates Foundation funds AI pilot for coffee farmers.

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FoodTech

🎥 Taste, price, or bust: Bruce Friedrich’s roadmap for alt meat

Exclusive: UPSIDE Foods looks beyond cultivated meat to life sciences with cell culture media spin-off Lucius Labs

AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund

Saga Robotics bets big on US vineyards with new GM, fresh capital for UV-C ‘bots: ‘Chemical free winegrowing is the holy grail’

Brazilian ag giant SLC Agricola scales use of unmanned crop sprayers with Pyka

Made in America: FCC decision sparks scramble to localize ag spray drone production

Why more food and beverage giants are flocking to Missouri

‘If planetary boundaries are the guardrails, soil is the road itself’: in conversation with Holganix

Beyond stevia: 2nd Nature mines ag side streams for next-gen sweeteners with AI

Planetary health 101: what it is, why it matters for the future of the global economy

The most impactful AI in farming ‘will not feel revolutionary,’ says Phospholutions boss. It will feel ‘dependable’

Can structural color replace titanium dioxide in food? Mirra bets on the butterfly effect

Guest article: Agriculture’s great repricing goes beyond the downcycle

AgriFood Signals: SAP & Syngenta partner, BASF buys biocontrol startup, Microsoft’s record deal with Indigo

Varaha signs major offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India

Exclusive: SenseUP raises $3.5m to advance dsRNA-based biopesticides that address cost, stability hurdles

Robot cowboys: GrazeMate bets on fully autonomous cattle mustering drones

What it actually takes to become ‘regenerative organic’—even if you’ve been doing it for a century

ClimateAi targets key ag pain point with new GDD tool, embeds AI into workflows

New human clinical study puts botanicals into the GLP-1 spotlight

Scaling out, not up: foodtech leaders rethink growth at Tufts event as capital dries up

AgriFood Signals: Corteva & BP partner on biofuels, Grit Road launches second fund for midwest agtech

African agrifood VC ‘does not need to follow the Silicon Valley growth trajectory’

🎥 Agrifoodtech in 2025: What broke, what bent—and what might still work

New US dietary guidelines elevate meat and full-fat dairy, ignite protein debate: ‘Most Americans already eat plenty’

Exclusive: Biographica raises $9.5m for AI-driven crop design, unveils partnership with BASF

Meati Foods property seized for non-payment of taxes

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