Getting the device through regulatory approvals required the team behind it to jump through more than a few hoops – and across a few continents.
Scientists at the UK’s Pirbright Institute, working in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the pharmaceuticals giant Astra Zeneca, have shown how a prospective Covid-19 vaccine for humans can successfully boost a pig’s immune response to the virus.
Although microbe-based feed additives are nothing new in animal feed, the space has fallen behind on innovating new solutions.
This Canadian startup is hoping to address transportation in the livestock industry where welfare and stress are major concerns.
Canada’s NovoBind, which is developing a precision biologics platform to protect livestock against pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and parasites, has closed a Series A round of funding.
Fulcrum raised the fund from a pool of high net worth investors to support early-stage upstream agriculture technologies in animal health, precision agriculture, food safety, and supply chain logistics
The animal nutrition and aquafeed company has added alternative protein to its list of categories this year alongside sustainable farming, welfare, and digital tools.
Using AI and computer vision Sentinel helps hog producers get accurate headcounts of their pigs to prevent combat inefficiency and prevent problems downstream.
In a world of African Swine Fever, increasing scrutiny of the meat industry and consumer demand for transparency, the pork industry needs to modernize. But according to Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig, many in the industry are reticent to move on.
The French feed ingredient developer uses a proprietary encapsulation technology to make fish feed more efficient once its consumed.
We spoke to Banks Baker ahead of his speaking slot at the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in San Francisco in March.
The competition welcomes agtech startups across many categories including everything from crop enhancement to animal health to supply chain innovations.
My time spent scouting out various ASF tech solutions at the Asia-Pacific Agri Tech Innovation Week in Singapore has given me cause for cautious optimism.
Consumers and retailers are putting increasing demands on the world’s dairy farmers- not just to provide more supply but to do it with improved environmental credentials, better traceability, lower use of antibiotics and medicine, and more humane treatment of animals.
Sistema_VC recently hosted a conference on agtech and here Dmitry Filatov shares the key industry trends that emerged on the day including tailored food, AI-assistants for farmers, data-driven supply decisions, and more.
As the deadly African Swine Fever keeps spreading, we identify tech that could potentially help farmers win in the battle against it.
Mareese Keane, the program director of agtech accelerator THRIVE presented the Animal AgTech Landscape Map at the inaugural Swine Innovation Summit last week.
Britain’s leading vaccinology center, the Pirbright Institute, is on the global front lines of preventing the spread of all manner of livestock diseases including FMDV and African swine flu.
A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods?
Animal agtech is no innovation backwater as the inaugural ReThink summit focused on the sector proved last week in San Francisco.
