Three industry mergers & acquisitions top this week’s Industry-in-Brief as the debate over GM salmon and food labeling continues, and a Saudi Arabian dairy company’s purchase of alfalfa land in California causes concern.
Vilsack’s visit to Cuba with Obama, lighting indoor lunar greenhouses, winners of a water innovation accelerator, and Mars joining the GMO labeling party are all featured in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
General Mills has decided to label GMO foods in the wake of the GMO bill’s demise, while satellite imagery company Geosys partners with a precision ag platform and a weather station company, and Farmers Edge teams up with The Weather Company.
Precision irrigation company HydroBio won a patent for its technology while a startup company using fresh vegetables to naturally sweeten food in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
A meaty industry-in-brief this week includes news on the GMO labeling debate, Europe’s largest urban farm, the world’s first expired food supermarket, people moves at DuPont, and a data collective for farmers.
FarmLink’s division, rules around healthy eating and food labeling, and updates in the GMO labeling debate make up this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
ZeaKal, which is enhancing the photosynthetic capacity of soybeans, attracted funding from two agtech VC heavyweights.
Monsanto’s lawsuit, cannabis legalization in New Zealand, and continued drama around GMO-labeling are some of the stories covered in this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Secretary Vilsack hosted a private meeting to hash details of a GMO labeling deal, while applications opened for organic research grants and poultry producers moved to organic and cage-free.
Last year, we saw a surge in the number of policy shifts and regulatory moves affecting food and agriculture in the US. Here’s five from 2015 that will likely have a ripple effect into the new year.
The “merger of equals” will create a $130 billion market cap company, DowDuPont, which will then split into three separate businesses for agriculture, material sciences and specialty products.
This week’s news-in-brief covers the launch of a new crop-spraying drone, a $20m commitment by New Zealand to combat agricultural emissions, and agribusiness PE fund Arlon leads sugar business M&A.
After S2G’s official fund launch last week, AgFunderNews caught up with the firm to hear a bit more about its investment process and how it views the food and agriculture sector.
Brook Porter, partner of KPCB’s Green Growth Fund, discusses the growing number of big data tools for farmers and consumer psychology surrounding food technology.
Benson Hill Biosystems is developing crop traits to improve photosynthesis using a platform developed out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center designed to improve the pace of discovery and implementation.
Opponents of the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (SAFLA) have nicknamed it the ‘Deny Americans the Right to Know’, or DARK, Act, while GMO proponents say it will help to reduce the regulatory costs associated with developments in food production.
Oakland-based food company Back to the Roots announced this morning that it has closed its first funding round to the tune of $2 million. Fund
Native Traits, a Michigan based bio tech company, has received a $250,000 commitment from Northern Michigan Angels investment group. Founded in 2013, Native Traits set up shop
America’s burrito heaven (or to some, hell,) is at it again; the franchise has some reaching for more Tabasco, and others for their TV remotes.
Indian farmer suicide rates are high, and experts aren’t sure why. Many point fingers at Monsanto’s GMOs as the cause for a quarter of a
Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits