When it comes to crops, biologicals are all the rage as a means to reduce agriculture’s environmental footprint – and increasingly as a solution to supply chain disruption. Decoy says livestock will be next.
UK-based BigSIS has closed a pre-seed round of funding, AFN can reveal.
Provivi produces pesticide alternatives for farmers based on insect pheromones, the natural secretions animals use to find one another for mating.
The sweet potato weevil is a very difficult pest to control and it is a serious pest in Africa. So the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation asked AgBiome if they’d be willing to work on it. They’re now entering phase 2.
Though the price of the acquisition was not disclosed, DTN SVP Ed Mattix offered that DTN is a conservative buyer looking to directly profit off of its acquisitions and that there would likely be more to come.
A group of researchers from Harvard University has teamed up with Monsanto to develop what could be the next wave of technology to fight pests that have become resistant to crops genetically-engineered to deter or kill them.
Terramera, a Canadian startup that’s on a mission to change the fate of many biological ag products, has raised $10 million in venture capital.
AgFunderNews caught up with Reid Carter, who invested in Semios separately from his day job at Brookfield Asset Management, to find out more about his interest in agtech.
Semios raised the funding to expand its specialty crop-focused sensor and precision ag platform business.
Last week Bayer acquired proPlant, a health diagnosis and infection level warning software. We speak to CEO James Blome about M&A and commercializing microbiome research.
Spensa Tech raised the capital to scale up its pest detection hardware and to develop its software platform.
