Plant-and-soil health startup Sound Agriculture will use the new funding to enter new markets and develop new products.
Mercy Corps Ventures and Farm Star are testing the use of Web3-enabled rewards to drive adoption of regenerative agricultural practices.
DeHaat will exclusively sell formulations from Global BioAg Innovation (GBI) and Australia’s Aussan Laboratorie to smallholders in India.
Pre-seed funding will enable NZN to progress field trials for its biological alternative for farmers to synthetic nitrogen fertilizer.
The field results and registration mark the first geographical expansion for Israel’s Grace Breeding and its biofertilizer product.
Despite an overall increase in agtech adoption, farmers around the world still lag in terms of adding new sustainability practices to their operations.
With fresh Series B funding, Agriconomie aims to become the European leader in the organics and regenerative inputs market.
Research finds that 80% of farmers cite input cost as the biggest risk to profitability; more are considering tools like precision ag and biologicals.
The Nutrition Technologies system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers.
By partnering with Lavoro, David Friedberg’s company hopes to drive more agtech adoption by leveraging the ag retailer’s influence on farmers.
It’ll expand manufacturing capacity at its Florida facility to bring its ag biofertilizer product to more farmers across North America.
Top Ag Biotech investment deals in 2021 covered gene editing, farm inputs, animal health solutions, and biofertilizers, among others.
Manure tech is massively underhyped – but geopolitics and economics mean that’s going to change in the coming months and years, writes Connie Bowen.
Sound Ag claims the pilot could cover 3 million farm acres, reducing up to 350,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, by 2027.
Startups developing biological crop inputs secured a total of $892 million in funding last year.
Soil microbial products for farmers have typically been unreliable. Kula Bio has changed that, writes AgFunder’s Rob Leclerc.
The Boston, US-based startup says its natural, microbial alternative to traditional nitrogen fertilizer is crop-agnostic, non-GMO, and cost-effective for farmers facing rising fertilizer costs.
The Annapolis, Maryland-based company uses microbes to convert agrifood byproducts into fuel and fertilizer.
The Annapolis, Maryland-based startup uses anaerobic digestion to convert organic waste, such as discarded food or ag byproducts, into fuel and fertilizer.
You’ve probably heard of microbials used as seed coating and soil amendments but what about incorporating them directly into seeds?
