The US startup is growing a plant that can help to reduce the carbon footprint of animal agriculture and become a new ingredient for alt-proteins.
He also said that the agribusiness giant doesn’t expect China’s domestic livestock feed industry to become self-sufficient anytime soon.
The US biotech startup is using gene editing to increase the nutritional content of seeds such as soybean, with an eye on the booming plant-based protein market.
FBN acquired Prairie Livestock Supply to help create its new services providing a “transparent” online marketplace for livestock pharmaceuticals and feed.
Sea Forest will use the funds to start supplying commercial quantities of seaweed that Australian science agency CSIRO has shown to reduce cattle methane emissions by as much as 80%.
Japfa aims for “viable solutions that improve the production of quality proteins and, ultimately, the nutrition of millions of people,” says Tan Yong Nang.
At full capacity, Beta Hatch’s new facility will produce one ton of insect protein every day. It is scheduled to open sometime in 2021.
It’s an “effort to establish the cattle feeding segment as an attractive space for innovators and investors,” said incoming chair Scott Whitefoot.
Emerging from stealth, GrainCorp-backed FutureFeed will build a value chain from the ground up to cultivate and commercialize its seaweed additive.
Will this new chicken run spur a similar craze for backyard Black Soldier Flies — a tasty and nutritious snack for these trusty lockdown companions?
Although microbe-based feed additives are nothing new in animal feed, the space has fallen behind on innovating new solutions.
The funding will be used to construct what it describes as the largest mealworm facility for animal feed in North America.
Trade Me – New Zealand’s answer to eBay – is listing livestock and feed on its auction platform after being registered as an ‘essential service’ provider.
The French feed ingredient developer uses a proprietary encapsulation technology to make fish feed more efficient once its consumed.
AquaBounty was the first company to obtain FDA approval for genetically modified seafood intended for human consumption. We spoke to COO Alejandro Rojas ahead of the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Amsterdam in October.
Finding alternative uses for methane could be an important tool in the fight against climate change as the gas is responsible for at least a quarter of global warming and is over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
“I had a front-row seat to the buzz – and the reality. It’s easy to criticize this industry, and the entrepreneurs who drive it forward, for being full of hype. In many cases, that is true; but it’s part of a more complicated reality,” writes Sean McDonald.
This is the largest early-stage agtech funding deal on record in Europe.
Last week, Enterra Feed Corporation, an insect farming business from Canada, announced its latest round of funding and plans to construct three new insect factories in Canada and the US.
This round was led by OS Fund, which, according to its website, “finances and supports inventors and scientists who are working on audacious breakthroughs to solve the greatest issues and opportunities facing humanity today.”
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