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Guest article: There’s a market for saline agriculture. It just needs a boost

Saline agriculture is no longer just a series of crop, soil and water management practices. It’s also a business ecosystem.

Agtech

Climate & sustainability

🎥 What is agrihealth—and can it become an investable category? The First Thirty makes the case

Falling costs in genomics, sensing and AI are making it easier to connect data across soil, plants, and animals to human health, says Antony Yousefian.

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

Antony Yousefian, The First Thirty Image credit Elaine Watson

🎥Agrifood VC needs a different playbook, says Pymwymic: “Corporate venture capital needs to step in earlier”

In agrifood investing, says Rogier Pieterse at Pymwymic, it is time to stop shooting for the stars and instead aim for the moon — and consistently land there.

Agtech

Deeptech

Guest article: There’s a market for saline agriculture. It just needs a boost

🎥 What is agrihealth—and can it become an investable category? The First Thirty makes the case

🎥Agrifood VC needs a different playbook, says Pymwymic: “Corporate venture capital needs to step in earlier”

AgriFood Signals: Confido raises $55m to help CPGs, Tesco backs Henry Dimbleby’s fund, UPF food labeling

Sound Agriculture launches seed-applied biological to preserve yields on high ammonium corn acres

In ovo sexing hits 40% penetration in the EU. What will it take to crack the US?

The Mixing Bowl says it’s still ‘early days’ for crop robotics but AI, M&A are driving advancement

Impossible Foods makes UK retail debut at Tesco… without its flagship heme protein

Virtual fencing is no longer hype. Now it has to prove itself a trustworthy tool

Exclusive: Lilac Agriculture raises $2.3m to tackle inoculants’ ‘black box’ problem

‘Bring us your difficult trait problems’: Biographica, Hudson River partner on crop genome editing

xFarm Technologies’ acquisition of Sibium Analytics brings it closer to defining agriculture’s data layer

These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them

AgriFood Signals: Syngenta HK IPO, Terradot and Google do enhanced rock weathering, Corteva split lawsuits

PhytoFoundry emerges from stealth with plant cell culture platform targeting high value bioactives

Robigo Bio eyes commercialization for its ag biologicals with Leaps by Bayer investment

Exclusive: Spearhead Bio lands oversubscribed seed round for faster, more precise gene editing tech

Formo scales precision-fermented casein ahead of US debut as narrative shifts from sustainability and ethics to performance

Exclusive: Ayana Bio acquires Meati Foods assets for a steal to scale plant cell culture tech with Zenfold in India

Digital ag platform xFarm Technologies expands to sugarcane, biofuels with Sibium Analytics acquisition

Can Culta take Japan’s premium fruit model global?

No, imaging won’t help farmers control plant disease

AgriFood Signals: EIF backs Nordic Foodtech VC, NotCo sells Brazilian business, Agronutris in receivership

🎥 Carbon Robotics: $100m+ revenue, new machine and a path to IPO

How AgFunder is using AI to build a venture firm that remembers

ProducePay eyes profitability as it shifts from capital to data: ‘We think 2027 will be a breakout year’

Knip bets on postbiotics, not commodity protein, as it scales biomass fermentation

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