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🎥 SenseUP aims to take RNAi pesticides from niche to mainstream

Traditional pesticides are blunt instruments for killing pests. RNAi is far more precise, if you can overcome cost and stability challenges, says SenseUP.

Agtech

Biomanufacturing & biologicals

Juan Martinez, co-CEO, SenseUP. Image credit: SenseUP

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

🎥 SenseUP aims to take RNAi pesticides from niche to mainstream

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

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

Molagri raises $5.8m to build ‘updatable’ biopesticides

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

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

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

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

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?

🎥 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

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

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

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

FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing

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