AeroFarms emerges from Ch. 11 with new CEO, focus on VA farm
September 18, 2023
The company has also hired food and ag vet Molly Montgomery as acting CEO as it focuses all efforts on its Danville, Virginia farm.
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Brief: Container farming startup Freight Farms to go public for $147m via SPAC
September 8, 2023
The proposed SPAC merger with Agrinam Acquisition Corp. values indoor farming tech company Freight Farms at $147 million.
Equilibrium & Bosch Growers submit winning bids to acquire AppHarvest’s KY greenhouse facilities
September 5, 2023
Longtime AppHarvest backer Equilibrium submitted the lone bid for the former’s 60-acre greenhouse facilities.
Bio-input startup Pivot Bio blazes past $100m revenue mark, appoints a new CEO
August 29, 2023
US farmers now use the Pivot Bio microbe-based, nitrogen-fixing product in place of synthetic nitrogen on 5 million acres of corn.
Brief: Grocery delivery giant Instacart files for IPO, reports profitability, investment from PepsiCo
August 27, 2023
A successful Instacart IPO could go far in revitalizing the IPO market, including for other agrifoodtech companies.
Brief: Jellatech lands $3.5m to produce collagen without having to ‘mine the animal’
August 22, 2023
The oversubscribed seed round will go towards scaling Jellatech’s proprietary cell-ag process and working towards commercialization.
Grain-trading platform Bushel raises $26m to build up ‘the Holy Grail’ of agrifintech software
August 22, 2023
New funds will support the growth and expansion of Bushel’s ag software tools for grain traders, farmers and other agrifood business.
Oishii’s newest executive says she’s ‘never been more confident about the future of vertical farming’
August 15, 2023
The vertical farming company’s newly appointed chief commercial officer Rita Hudetz says one of her goals is to make Oishii a household name.
Brief: Phospholutions lands $10.15m to help more farmers around the world manage phosphorus use
August 10, 2023
Phospholutions will accelerate commercialization of its RhizoSorb fertilizer additive in the US and expand field trials of in 2024.
BeeHero aims for more control outside the hive with the launch of a new pollination insights platform
August 8, 2023
BeeHero says the new platform is meant to bring the same granularity of data found via its in-hive sensors to activity in the field
FDA food traceability architect Frank Yiannas joins IoT company Wiliot to tackle ‘the Achilles heel’ of the food industry
August 3, 2023
Yiannas will provide guidance on Wiliot’s strategy to increase food safety and traceability via its ambient IoT platform.
Brief: Cover crop usage steady but still ‘only a fraction’ of total acreage in the US, says Purdue’s latest farmer survey
August 2, 2023
Farmers still struggle with additional costs associated with planting and terminating cover crops, and in some cases reduced crop yields.
AppHarvest files Chapter 11 protection, plans to sell its Kentucky-based indoor farming facilities
July 24, 2023
AppHarvest says the filing, which comes on the heels of one from AeroFarms, will aid in a “financial and operational” transition.
Meet the founder: FarmLab’s Sam Duncan on why effective soil mapping is a lot like blood testing
July 21, 2023
The FarmLab agronomy platform can help farmers better map, sample and analyze soil for agronomy and carbon projects.
Brief: Nestlé aims to transition 100,000 acres of its wheat supply chain to regen ag
July 18, 2023
Nestlé is partnering with ADM and Ardent Mills for the initiative, two key wheat suppliers for the DiGiorno brand.
Investing in ag biologicals: “We are looking for reasons to say no”
July 17, 2023
Success in biologicals is about so much more than the actual products, said a panel of investors at the recent Salinas Biologicals Summit
Silo bags $132m, partners with First Citizens Bank to advance its ‘supply chain in a box’ concept
July 12, 2023
Silo will use the Series C funding and new bank partnership to advance its workflow automation and fintech platform for the produce industry.
Exclusive: Performance Livestock Analytics lands funding from Builders VC, separates from animal health giant Zoetis
July 10, 2023
As an independent entity, Performance Livestock Analytics plans to grow its data analytics platform and expand to new markets.
Exclusive: Innova Memphis raises $40m to bring the rural US ‘innovations farmers actually want’
June 28, 2023
The Innova Memphis Fund VI will invest in early-stage startups addressing the automation and digitization of agriculture in rural areas.
Biologicals won’t replace chemical crop inputs anytime soon. Here’s why
June 27, 2023
Biologicals and chemical inputs must work together along the journey towards agriculture that’s healthier for people and planet.
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