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

Converging tech from AI and genomics to robotics are compressing R&D timelines, boosting yields, and unlocking new modes of action in crop protection, say agtech entrepreneurs at World Agri-Tech.

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

Agrifoodtech is not going to produce a banner funding year in 2026, but the composition of capital continues to shift in ways that matter.

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

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

Navigating AI’s impact on public and private markets

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

Buckle up, say investors as AI reshapes agrifoodtech: ROI may be “unusually tangible’

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

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

Tropic bags $105m to scale gene-edited bananas, deploy TR4 resistant bananas in 2027

Crop Diagnostix launches RNA-based crop health early-warning system

Leaps by Bayer’s PJ Amini on exits, epigenetics, AI-driven discovery and his ‘50% rule’

California Cultured bets on $3k reusable plastic bioreactors to transform economics of cultured cocoa

Guest article: The alt-meat reset. Scale won’t fix broken unit economics

AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches paraquat, TARGAN bags $100m for animal health, AeroFarms for sale

Remembering Rob Trice, a founding voice in agrifoodtech

Amatera raises $7m to accelerate climate smart crop development by tackling screening bottleneck

Bindbridge raises $3.8m for targeted protein degradation platform for next-gen crop protection

Can fermentation undercut synthetics? baCta chases astaxanthin’s ‘collagen moment’

Infant formula cereulide recall: an isolated supplier lapse or a structural vulnerability?

‘Biogeographical context’ is key to accelerating R&D in biologicals, says Brazil CDMO IdeeLab

Guest article: America invents, Brazil and China deploy. Can the Farm Bill fix Washington’s ag biotech bottleneck?

With crop protection at a crossroads, it’s time for big ag to embrace its big pharma moment

AgriFood Signals: Pepper raises $50m, Mars’ new impact fund, Syngenta IPO hints

Döhler brings Superbrewed’s postbiotic protein into commercial production

ZhongGu Junchuang expands reach with new mycelium R&D and production hub in Western China

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