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.
AgFunderNews weekly roundup of fundings, M&A, and food and agriculture policy: what got most people talking this week was Impossible Foods’ whopping $108 million Series D round.
John Cook over at GeekWire has reported that WISErg has added another $900,000 to the $5 million Series B they raised earlier this year for
The Mosaic Company keeps getting bigger. The Mosaic Company has announced it has acquired a fertilizer distribution business in Brazil and Paraguay for $350
Enterra Feed Inc., a Vancouver-based fertilizer and animal feed company, has announced it closed a $5 million venture-funding round with Avrio Capital. “It’s particularly
The Swiss-Italian startup will expand availability of its farm management software to help growers farm more efficiently while addressing climate change.
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