
Propagate raises $10m from AgFunder, others to help more farmers reap the benefits of agroforestry
Farms can boost biodiversity and income with agroforestry; Propagate wants to make that option more accessible to growers and landowners.
Farms can boost biodiversity and income with agroforestry; Propagate wants to make that option more accessible to growers and landowners.
The partnership to co-produce automotive designs using mycelium-based products is MycoWorks’ first partnership outside the fashion world.
Bread-baking robots get funding, GM invests in MycoWorks and Smart Asset raises new capital for its precision-spraying tech for orchards.
At this year’s AgTech NEXT event in St. Louis, Missouri, panelists discussed the different ways to deal with “a food system in crisis.”
Improving soil health, controlling erosion and boosting yields are the main motivators for using cover crops on US farmland.
Funding will help scale the startup’s climate-smart nitrogen technology that uses just air, water and renewables-based electricity to produce nitrogen.
Solis Agrosciences’ CEO discusses the future of biotech, role of farmers, and how her experience as a woman and an immigrant has informed her work.
Meanwhile, Estonia-based FlyFeed lands funds to build insect farms and more delivery robots head to university campuses courtesy of Grubhub and Starship.
From old timers with mega deals to up-and-comers just entering the space, here are the ghost kitchen startups leading the pack of a growing if somewhat controversial segment of the food industry.
A new tropical agriculture program focuses on technologies and processes that restore and regenerate soils and species rather than solely extract from them.
The company says it can grow leafy greens and herbs indoors via its soil-based vertical farming system for 30% less than it costs to grow outdoors.
Plus, Starbucks names a new CEO and a longtime veteran of consumer goods corporate Unilever calls it quits after 35 years.
BioBetter says it can bring down the cost of growth factors from the normal range of $50,000 – $500,000 per gram to a mere one dollar per gram.
Canada’s Elevate Farms got a fresh injection of capital for its indoor farming business and Gourmey raked in funds for its cultivated foie gras ambitions.
Inari uses gene-editing tools to enhance the natural diversity of seeds while enabling higher crop yields with fewer inputs.
The Factory 1 cultivated meat facility will handle commercial production for Vow’s “extremely delicious” first product it aims to launch this year.
The Seedz platform aims to transition more farmers in Brazil online while also giving major suppliers more actionable data.
The move includes closing down a 189,000-square-foot plant-based meat factory in Denver, Colorado, as well as getting rid of more than 100 jobs.
Tractor Zoom will invest in more data science to make its digital marketplace for farm equipment buying as transparent and streamlined as possible.
“We don’t have 15 years to figure this problem out,” the Nowadays co-founder and CEO says of animal agriculture’s role in the climate crisis.
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