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Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more

February 23, 2018 Nina Sparling Leave a comment

Benson Hill Biosystems patents CRISPR 3.0 while Tyson Foods looks to accelerators for innovation plus more in our weekly brief.

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The Crop Trust Raises $300m of $850m Target to Safeguard Global Biodiversity

May 17, 2016 Louisa Burwood-Taylor 1 Comment

AgFunderNews caught up with Cierra Martin and Hannes Dempewolf of The Crop Trust, an international organization working to safeguard crop diversity forever, to find out more about its work, and its fundraising initiative.

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Alternative Protein Startups: Let’s Get the Facts Straight about Livestock’s Carbon Footprint

March 21, 2019 7:05 am | By Lauren Manning

The issue of livestock farming’s impact on the environment is not as clear cut as many would have you believe. In fact, many much of the data dairy and meat alternative businesses are using to market their animal-free wares are inaccurate and misleading. Read more →

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Cultivating Agtech Leadership for Established Row Crop Leaders

March 22, 2019 1:58 pm | By Sponsored Post

One of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice, writes the Illinois Soybean Association. Read more →

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TERRA Growth Stage AgriFood Accelerator Opens for Applications!

April 18, 2019 1:04 pm | By Sponsored Post

TERRA, a non-equity-based accelerator program, is unique in its approach to acceleration by focusing on startups that are ready to scale their businesses, as opposed to those at the proof of concept stage refining their pitches for seed funding. Read more →

Research & Data

Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018

April 10, 2019 9:07 pm | By Lauren Manning

Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and other brick & mortar stores.

Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts Its Stuff In San Fran

March 26, 2019 3:01 pm | By Richard Martyn-Hemphill

Animal agtech is no innovation backwater as the inaugural ReThink summit focused on the sector proved last week in San Francisco. Read more →

Podcast

Future Food: Will We Have Kitchens in 2050? Climate Corp Founder Friedberg Shares His Vision of Future Food System

March 12, 2019 2:54 pm | By Louisa Burwood-Taylor

What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to chef, farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food! Read more →

Technology Corner

3Bar Biologics and Pivot Bio Team Up to Crack One of the Biggest Barriers to the Adoption of Biologicals

March 20, 2019 1:41 pm | By Lauren Manning

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. Read more →

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Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Partners with Accelerators, CRISPR 3.0 Gets a Patent, Unilever Moves Toward Transparency, more

The Crop Trust Raises $300m of $850m Target to Safeguard Global Biodiversity

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