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

“If margin is only coming from massive scale, success is tenuous,” says Christie Lagally.

Alternative protein

FoodTech

Remembering Rob Trice, a founding voice in agrifoodtech

Much of agrifoodtech’s early identity was shaped through conversations with Rob Trice, cofounder of The Mixing Bowl and Better Food Ventures, and the connections he made.

Agtech

FoodTech

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

Remembering Rob Trice, a founding voice in agrifoodtech

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

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

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

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’

‘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?

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

Latam sugar giant Magdalena plans 650,000-L precision fermentation facility in Guatemala

Döhler brings Superbrewed’s postbiotic protein into commercial production

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

DJI appeal sets stage for legal showdown over future of US ag spray drone market

How AI, automated labs and CDMOs are replacing agrifood’s 100-year-old R&D playbook

Precision fermentation startup Verley raises $38m Series A as BLG unlocks new segment of protein market

Atarraya looks to bring high-tech shrimp farming to UAE, evolves business model

Guest article: How to stop playing the old game in ag innovation

Resurrect Bio raises $8.1m to unlock plants’ innate disease resistance capabilities

AgriFood Signals: Egypt eGrocer Breadfast banks $50m, Kubota invests in spray ‘bot, Trump’s glyphosate order

Ruminant BioTech eyes Canada as launchpad for global expansion with $5.6m research program

BigHaat unveils global expansion plan, $1bn annual revenue goal as it edges towards profitability

Exclusive: From rocks to row crops, TerraClear broadens its capabilities with launch of fully autonomous robot

Hybrid meat for the win: JOYN Foods finds sweet spot in alt-protein market, expects to be EDITDA positive in early 2027

US receiver to liquidate Believer Meats’ factory and assets as Israeli trustee ringfences IP

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