Given the rapid growth of drones for spraying crops—a market dominated by Chinese supplier DJI—our coverage of lawmakers’ attempts to restrict DJI’s US activities featured heavily in our ‘most read’ list this year.
Spanish startup MOA Foodtech has built an AI-powered biomass fermentation platform to transform byproducts from the food industry into high value ingredients.
A flurry of startups offering AI-powered ag insights driven by long-range weather forecasting has emerged on the scene in recent years. But are they delivering actionable info for food & ag companies?
While multiple startups engineer microbes to produce animal proteins via precision fermentation, PoLoPo and others in the ‘molecular farming’ space claim the unit economics of growing them in genetically engineered plants are more favorable.
Plus…John Kempf’s Advancing Eco Agriculture nabbed a USDA rural development award.
Food manufacturers have been looking for viable egg replacements for years as prices yo-yo with every avian flu outbreak, says Onego Bio.
Unsurprisingly, the challenging funding environment was top of mind for many founders, but it’s not the only thing disturbing their sleep…
This “direct trade” model cuts out the middlemen so that GoodSAM works directly with the growers and their farmer associations.
Unsurprisingly, AI was top of mind for many founders, but it’s not the only thing on their list…
Plant-and-soil health startup Sound Agriculture will use the new funding to enter new markets and develop new products.
“With this reduction we’ve hit an essential milestone on our path to achieving cost parity with conventional mozzarella and reaching positive net margins,” claims CEO Matt Gibson.
Agency, education, and myth-busting are key.
Plus: GE salmon company AquaBounty winds down its only remaining operating farm: “We’ve been working for over a year to raise capital… Unfortunately, these efforts have not generated enough cash to maintain our operating facilities.”
CEO David Rosenberg told us that, “It is a meaningful amount of money, but more money is needed later in 2025.”
The firm did not provide any details of the settlement, but confirmed the case—which mirrors a class action filed in 2016 vs Quorn Foods—has been voluntarily dismissed.
There is “a misconception that tariffs reduce trade deficits,” says economist Joseph Gagnon at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Well they don’t.”
One Bio has patented technology to chop up polysaccharides from agricultural waste into “odorless, colorless, and tasteless” oligosaccharides to bridge the fiber gap.
New research suggests that ultrafine bubbles can optimize fermentation processes by improving metabolic efficiency in microbial cells, says Hydrosome Labs.
Gooddrop aims to grow cotton in vertical farms and keep spinning mills on the site of these farms to produce textiles.
While the concept of minimal viable product (MVP) has proven its value in software, it doesn’t translate so well into food Unlike software, a food product cannot be “patched” once it hits shelves…
