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TerraBlaster raises $12.5m for real time NPK soil mapping at tractor speed

“We are quickly moving to a future where real-time measurements enable precise soil fertilization,” says cofounder and CEO Jorge Heraud.

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Jorge Heraud, CEO, TerraBlaster. Image credit: TerraBlaster

Can smarter surveillance help poultry farms catch bird flu earlier?

“In this way, agriculture can move past reactive disease management to adopt a proactive, risk-informed approach,” says AgriNerds CEO Maurice Pitesky.

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TerraBlaster raises $12.5m for real time NPK soil mapping at tractor speed

Can smarter surveillance help poultry farms catch bird flu earlier?

BREAKING: UPSIDE Foods terminates $50m bid for Believer Meats’ US site but “remains interested in the facility”

Century-old Keystone Cooperative joins Alloy Partners’ venture studio for animal, human and planetary health

dsm-firmenich takes Protopia yeast protein to industrial scale, targets fishmeal and whey

Natural Capital gaining ‘increasing recognition’ from more institutional investors: report

AgriFood Signals: Farmbot unearths fresh funding, Homestead Capital nabs $150m, Gates backs ‘HeatSmart’ cassava

IIF to launch its farm investment platform across Canada following new capital raise from Verdex

Mafix raises $5.4m to activate silicate rock into climate-smart fertilizer

Superbrewed Food expands beyond bulk protein with postbiotic launch

Guest article: The field day is the new term sheet; how growers are vetting ag robotics for real-use application

Pairwise sees ‘dramatic uptick’ in CRISPR licensing as gene editing moves beyond row crops

Quorn Foods’ UK retail recovery gathers pace, but foodservice ‘likely to get worse before it gets better’

Inside Nanovel’s bid to crack robotic citrus harvesting

Offbeast develops ‘world’s first’ beef-plant hybrid whole cuts

AgriFood Signals: Ranch tech startup Ranchbot nets $15m, Target hires chief AI officer, plant cell culture megadeal

Millow raises $2.3m, gears up for commercial launch of minimally processed alt meat

Swiss alt meat startup Planted scales fermented whole-cut platform, eyes B2B partnerships

From GLP-1s to biosensors: Inside Cornucopian Capital’s precision health playbook

GRAS overhaul: less onerous than feared, but legal battle likely

“Climate resilience” platform ClimateAi winds down operations

New FCC proposal could ‘retroactively ban’ some existing ag spray drones, warns DJI

Cultivated meat deep dive: After the crash, who’s still standing?

Cultivated Food Labs advances faba bean hull-based cocoa alternative

BioScout raises $4.8m for early warning system for fungal pathogens

AgriFood Signals: Eatable Adventures launches accelerator, Ambrook raises $30m, LIVEKINDLY acquires Dalco

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