FluroSat acquires Dagan, becomes Regrow in ‘resilient ag’ & carbon push
February 22, 2021
The two companies have combined their crop science and soil health chops with an eye on the nascent carbon credits market.
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Cattle seaweed supplement, pregnancy test get Australian government funding
February 15, 2021
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%.
How Australian agriculture can continue to succeed in 2021
February 3, 2021
Australian agriculture proved remarkably resilient in a 2020 which brought bushfires, drought, and a global pandemic. Tech can help it to continue thriving in the years ahead.
Telus expands agtech reach with lead in AgriWebb’s $23m Series B round
January 21, 2021
The Canadian telco recently launched Telus Agriculture after acquiring a string of agtech startups. But AgriWebb is just fine with remaining an independent portfolio company for now, says co-founder Justin Webb.
Starting with cultured kangaroo dumplings, Vow is on a mission to diversify the world’s protein sources
January 12, 2021
The Australian startup is building a library of animal cells from across the world, enabling ‘hundreds upon hundreds’ of combinations to create optimized alt-proteins.
EXCLUSIVE: FarmLab thinks it can get 1m farmers to sequester 1bn tonnes of CO2 by 2025. Here’s how
December 4, 2020
The Australian startup has set the ambitious target of achieving its goal by 2025. But co-founder and CEO Sam Duncan is confident it has the tech chops to do it.
Startup Spotlight: Cloud Ag seeks to replace soil sampling by measuring carbon from the air
December 1, 2020
The Boulder, Colorado firm believes it can give the nascent carbon credits industry a boost by using hyperspectral imaging to make soil monitoring more efficient.
Startup Spotlight: With Numnuts, sheep tail docking and castration may not be so baaaad
November 9, 2020
Getting the device through regulatory approvals required the team behind it to jump through more than a few hoops – and across a few continents.
Plant-based protein maker v2food raises $55m: ‘We consider ourselves part of the meat industry’
October 21, 2020
The Australian startup has attracted investment from some of Asia’s biggest names as it looks to cash in on the continent’s growing appetite for protein.
EXCLUSIVE: Provectus nets $3.25m seed funding to ‘program’ algae
October 20, 2020
The Australian startup uses lighting, robotics, and AI to ‘program’ algae strains so they can more efficiently produce specialty ingredients for the food and ag sectors.
SwarmFarm raises $3.2m to grow its open platform for ag robotics
October 8, 2020
SwarmFarm was founded in 2012 by farmer couple Andrew and Jocie Bate, who also run a dryland crop and beef cattle operation in rural Queensland.
To meet its billion-dollar agricultural output goal, Australia must do more to support agtech innovation
October 7, 2020
The Australian government has released its annual budget, featuring several leg-ups for the ag industry. But more tech investment is key for longer term security.
On #FLWDay, meet the Singapore Food Bowl startups tackling Asia Pacific’s food waste problem
September 29, 2020
To mark International Food Loss & Waste Awareness Day, AFN spoke to three startups who are taking three very different approaches to food waste reduction.
Dendra and its ‘forest-patrolling drones’ close $10m Series A from Airbus, others
September 16, 2020
The UK-Australian startup uses AI, data analytics, drones, and ecological expertise to restore carbon and biodiversity to degraded land.
Regenerative farming: Let’s look forward, not backward
August 25, 2020
Regenerative farming is nothing new. But today, many of its principles are more easily applied thanks to the development of new technologies.
EXCLUSIVE: CSIRO, Woolworths unveil FutureFeed, a seaweed supplement that cuts cow methane by 80%
August 20, 2020
Emerging from stealth, GrainCorp-backed FutureFeed will build a value chain from the ground up to cultivate and commercialize its seaweed additive.
Why we invested in SIMULATE
July 30, 2020
Mail order, frozen, plant-based chicken nuggets… Before we met Ben Pasternak, the founder of SIMULATE (formerly NUGGS), this would have sounded like the worst idea ever.
Farmers Business Network expands to Australia with Farmsave acquisition
July 21, 2020
In Farmsave, FBN “saw a company that was deeply aligned with the same values [that] understands the role tech is going to play in the future of ag,” co-founder Charles Baron told AFN.
Australia’s indoor ag sector has been slow off the mark. Here’s how to give it the kickstart it needs
July 20, 2020
Australia is technologically advanced, highly urbanized, and has farmers aplenty – but its urban ag industry is practically non-existent. Sydney startup Blakthumb finds out why.
Tenacious co-leads Goterra’s $6m Series A to launch Australia’s first agrifoodtech VC
July 2, 2020
Goterra is an on-site food waste management technology and service that disposes of waste via modular insect farms.
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