AppHarvest also announced the appointment of former Amazon tech exec Mark Keller to head up its on-farm robotics efforts.
CEO Erez Galonska said the deal “represents one of the largest rollouts of any vertical farming company in North America to date.”
‘Net zero by 2050’ has become the rallying cry for many agrifood businesses. Here are some of the ways they can make those aspirations into reality.
Cell lines for cultivated meat R&D are proving hard to come by. But don’t point the finger of blame at startups, as a major UK newspaper appeared to do this week.
AgTech NEXT is offering free registration for a new conference series that will focus on specific issues at the intersection of agriculture and climate change.
Conservis provided an exit to its investors 12-years after its founding and the “odd” deal showcases a key way forward for digital adoption on the farm.
A new report from the investor group examines how 10 major animal health companies are tackling – or failing to tackle – antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture.
The trio are using tech to help the world’s poorest farmers improve their yields and increase their incomes.
As is the case with a lot of great Canadian ideas, the founders of Future Fields came up with theirs while waiting in line at Tim Hortons.
Female agrifoodtech entrepreneurs experience persistent negative gender bias, according to a new report published by KK&P and EIT Food.
Are you an agritech startup that wants to scale its business to its full potential and have a positive impact in the agrifood industry?
The Singapore-based startup has scored $30 million in seed funding from the likes of Temasek, GGV Capital, and England soccer star Dele Alli.
It’s a unique accelerator program offered by GROW in partnership with Food Futures Company and Austrade, Australia’s trade and investment agency.
Carbon credits schemes involving agriculture are growing in number – but not all are necessarily equal in their impact, Dan Blaustein-Rejto writes.
Nestlé is said to be planning a range of products which blend cultivated meat with plant-based protein.
On World Zoonoses Day, a call for farms in emerging markets to get access to the same tech and knowhow as their counterparts elsewhere.
Having overtaken e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on the active buyers front, Pinduoduo’s looking upstream at alt-protein and logistics tech, its sustainability head tells AFN.
It claims to be the US’s largest indoor farming operation to be certified organic by the USDA – and the country’s leading supplier of fresh herbs.
CRISPR is the best tool the EU has to achieve its ambitious agrifood sustainability goals. The bloc needs to keep that squarely in mind when regulating its use, write Rudi Ariaans and Ferdinand Los.
CEO Sriram on why she made the leap from full-time scientist to founder – and how she reconciles vegetarianism with being a cultured meat eater.
Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits