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UK Agri-Tech Centre to slash workforce by 60% in strategic pivot to new operating model

The move, which the UKATC insists is “not a cost-cutting exercise,” reflects a shift to a new operating model, says chief engagement officer Daniel Himsworth.

Agtech

Climate & sustainability

Daniel Himsworth, chief engagement officer, UK Agri-Tech Centre. Image credit: Elaine Watson

Molagri raises $5.8m to build ‘updatable’ biopesticides

“Farmers shouldn’t have to worry about resistance, the same way you don’t think about which flu strain is going around when you get a flu shot,” says Molagri cofounder Zaky Hassan.

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

AgriFood Signals: India’s Scimplify nets $25m, Deere funds food security, USDA funds seed research

Plus: Australia approves lab-grown duck.

Agtech

FoodTech

UK Agri-Tech Centre to slash workforce by 60% in strategic pivot to new operating model

Molagri raises $5.8m to build ‘updatable’ biopesticides

AgriFood Signals: India’s Scimplify nets $25m, Deere funds food security, USDA funds seed research

PerPlant lands Valtra deal to put its AI crop sensor on tractors straight from the factory

OlsAro raises $5.5m seed round as salt-tolerant wheat nears market

Could GLP-1 drugs finally put a price on crop nutrient density?

Switch Bio partners with Bayer to advance ‘switchable’ tech for biofertilizers

SLM Partners secures $167m from Dutch pension investor to regenerate forests

🎥 ClimateCrop bets on starch ‘off switch’ to improve crop performance

It’s time to take action on cybersecurity in agrifood

Exclusive: Yara Growth Ventures backs soil-sensing startup Stenon as fertilizer prices surge

BREAKING: The EVERY Co prevails in legal spat with Onego Bio

US spray drone market “very much in flux” as firms attempt to navigate evolving landscape, says ASDC

AgriFood Signals: Edonia raises funds to scale spirulina protein, AI agents for restaurants, PepsiCo does VR

Regen-organic food can be ‘measurably more nutritious,’ says new research from Edacious and ROA

Twiga’s demise underscores the need for new financing models in African agrifoodtech

Myca raises $1.3m pre-seed to put AI agents in charge of agribusiness field operations

🎥 Where are foodtech investors looking next after the boom and bust?

🎥 Can Picker AgRobotics’ Dr Octopus-style arms finally crack autonomous fruit harvesting?

🎥 Verley progresses towards 200,000-L tanks as precision fermentation enters its prove-it phase

🎥 Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses: ‘It’s very targeted, almost like personalized medicine’

EU looks to speed agricultural research to market despite budget pressures

🎥 Atmonia scales green ammonia with single-step electrochemical process

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

AgriFood Signals: Corteva & Inari settle, Starbucks scales back green goals, countries rethink climate reporting

Antobot scales UV-C robotics push with 300 deployments targeted in 2027

Austrian alt meat startup Revo Foods targets profitability by Q3 2027 as 3D-printing scales up

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