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February 27, 2020
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Nutreco’s Feed&Food Tech Challenge is open for apps – apply now!
February 27, 2020
The animal nutrition and aquafeed company has added alternative protein to its list of categories this year alongside sustainable farming, welfare, and digital tools.
French poultry tech startup Tibot Technologies raises €3m seed round for health-boosting robot
October 16, 2019
The startup’s robots roam around poultry houses floors to encourage more bird movement and to prevent hens from laying eggs outside designated nest boxes.
What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk?
September 2, 2019
This is not just kidding around with mind-bending science experiments for its own sake; dozens of potential applications exist for spider silk, like new ligaments or bullet-proof vests.
For Biologics to Succeed, ‘Plug & Play’ Inputs Must Give Way to Holistic Farm Management
May 30, 2019
As lawmakers, court battles, and consumer demand continue to push conventional chemical inputs out of the picture, a major market opportunity for bio-based inputs has
3Bar Biologics and Pivot Bio Team Up to Crack One of the Biggest Barriers to the Adoption of Biologicals
March 20, 2019
The duo is hoping to smash one of the biggest barriers to biologics adoption by providing farmers with a way to cultivate living microbial inputs on the farm that cannot survive in the current supply chain without cold storage.
Nutrition Innovation Raises $5m Seed Round for Low-GI Sugar as List of Sugar Reduction Technology Startups Grows
March 14, 2019
Excessive sugar consumption is a pervasive health problem throughout the world. It leads to many life-threatening conditions including diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, which has now reached epidemic levels in some parts of the world.
A List of Dairy Tech Startups and the Barriers to Adoption
December 4, 2018
There is a growing number of dairy tech startups on the market but there are challenges impacting dairy farmers’ ability and desire to adopt these innovative tools.
Ag Industry Brief: More Exec Churn at Chipotle, EU Changes Protocol on GMOs, TechAccel Funds New Grants, more
March 16, 2018
Chipotle loses a controversial executive, cultured leather comes to New York, TechAccel commits to innovation at UC Davis, and more in this week’s brief.
Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more
February 23, 2018
Benson Hill Biosystems patents CRISPR 3.0 while Tyson Foods looks to accelerators for innovation plus more in our weekly brief.
What Are Novel Farming Systems?
August 29, 2017
Novel farming systems are new methods of farming living ingredients for food and other applications, many of which are traditionally grown outdoors.
Aquaculture Feed Innovator Calysta Completes $40m Series D With Temasek & Mitsui
May 4, 2017
The financing will enable the business to achieve commercial scale manufacturing of its FeedKind protein, which is an alternative feed ingredient for fish, livestock and pet nutritional products.
Microbe Engineering Startup Zymergen Raises $130m Series B
October 13, 2016
Zymergen is engineering microbes for use across a range of industries including agriculture, and has raised one of agtech’s largest funding rounds to-date.
How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis?
October 5, 2016
Agriculture technology has emerged as a new destination for investors, but it still lacks definition. Here are five ways to think about it.
Fundings-in-Brief: Startup Manufacturing Wine without Grapes Raises $2.7m, Ashton Kutcher Invests in Farm-2-Consumer Startup, Vestaron Raises $18m, lots more
August 11, 2016
A bumper edition of fundings-in-brief includes bioinsecticides, precision ag, cannabis, lots of food e-commerce, and biotech.
Cloud Biology in Agriculture: Taking Big Data to a New Level
April 27, 2016
There’s more to big data than precision agriculture, argues Matt Crisp, CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, ahead of a panel on Cloud Biology for agriculture at the Global AgInvesting conference tomorrow.
A look at World Ag Expo’s ‘Top-10 New Products’
February 10, 2015
World Ag Expo announced the winners of its Top-10 New Products competition, and it’s clear that farm precision is the primary motivator for Ag innovation right now.
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