The Kawa Project upcycles coffee grounds to replace alkalized cocoa, while fellow 2023 GROW cohort member NTP Technologies enables on-farm, salt-free organic nitrogen fertilizer production.
The field results and registration mark the first geographical expansion for Israel’s Grace Breeding and its biofertilizer product.
Alterpacks raised $1 million while greenhouse grower AppHarvest entered a sale-leaseback deal for one if its Kentucky facilities.
Aqua-Yield’s concentrated liquid products can be added to most spray inputs farmers use for crop protection and soil and plant health.
Growers may also see “further downward price pressure” on phosphates and potash, though the outlook is less sunny for nitrogen.
It’ll expand manufacturing capacity at its Florida facility to bring its ag biofertilizer product to more farmers across North America.
The Boston, US-based startup says its natural, microbial alternative to traditional nitrogen fertilizer is crop-agnostic, non-GMO, and cost-effective for farmers facing rising fertilizer costs.
The Norwegian company’s tech converts animal manure into sustainable fertilizer and traps greenhouse gas emissions in the process.
Anuvia is hoping to clean up conventional fertilizer with its bio-basd input that improves yields while also reducing GHG emissions and sequestering carbon.
The Pennsylvanian startup makes RhizoSorb, which can be deployed as a fertilizer additive or soil amendment to improve crop uptake of phosphorus and other nutrients.
Focusing on gardeners and commercial landscapers for now, Upcycle & Co closed its recent seed round during the pandemic.
The startup offers a molecular biology-backed line of crop inputs as well as a platform to rapidly create new seed traits without gene-editing techniques.
Charlotte Hebebrand, is director-general of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), a nonprofit organization that represents the global fertilizer industry, on issues related to the promotion
Nitrogen fertilizer is widely used in row crop production and is a key expense farmers face each year. But often that fertilizer is wasted, washing
Ostara, a nutrient management solutions company, has closed a new round of equity financing co-led by existing investors VantagePoint Capital Partners and the food-focussed European family office Wheatsheaf Group.
Taurus Agricultural Marketing, an ag retailer headquartered in Calgary, has made a substantial financial investment into Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, a wastewater and crop nutrition technology.
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer, is launching a partnership with Florida startup Anuvia Plant Nutrients to convert the hog manure created by the company’s farming operations into fertilizer.
Multinational chemical company Yara International has acquired Agronomic Technology Corp, an agricultural field modeling company for soil, water, crops, and fertilizer, for an undisclosed sum.
Soil and crop technologies led the week with two crop enhancement technologies raising funding in Italy and Africa.
The private sector is increasingly taking note of the food waste space, and one startup has raised $50m to scale its offering.
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