A lot of the questions surrounding the technology are not really scientific but about what this technology is feeding into: power politics, the changing structure of agriculture and smallholder farmers, and long-term effects.
The cost of farming indoors has always been a big question mark around its impactfulness on the food system; if it’s too expensive, it won’t be scalable.
Animal health startup Applied LifeSciences & Systems (ALSS) closed an $8 million Series A round of equity financing co-led by Merck Animal Health and Mountain
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With the growth of the event, we are hearing different voices, including changing corporate cultures and new business models.
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.
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BeefChain uses RFID and IoT tech to create an auditable provenance for grass-fed, pasture-raised meat to help ranchers
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TechAccel, the venture development organization, and Donald Danforth Center for Life Sciences, the leading plant science research institute, have created a new startup called RNAissance.
Virginia-based sustainable packaging company TemperPack, which counts HelloFresh among its clients, raised $22.5m in a Series B round bringing the growing Packaging 2.0 sector into the spotlight.
It’s been a bumpy ride for many startup businesses offering meal kit delivery services — where they send customers pre-portioned ingredients to cook specific recipes
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Omnivore offers a universal point-of-sale connectivity platform that allows hundreds of third-party technologies to integrate seamlessly. It calls itself the “industry standard for POS integration.”
Rajiv Singh, the former CEO of Rabobank North America, writes about FoodShot’s search for projects and ideas that utilize the latest in technology, science, and engineering to address the crisis of soil deterioration ahead of the January 8, 2019 deadline.
“I never consumed cannabis for the first 29 years of my life, Socrates Rosenfeld founder and CEO of Jane Technologies tells AgFunderNews after raising a $6m Series A round of funding.
The New Food Economy recently investigated those ethical eaters (dubbed conscious carnivores) who choose to consume meat only under certain standards such as locally sourced and humanely raised without antibiotics.
Milk & Eggs is different to other online grocers because what’s purchased is made-to-order; it’s like it’s providing people with their own personal farmer, according to the CEO.
The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.
