California-based Gateway Health Alliances (GHA) has unveiled new human clinical data showing that two botanical extracts known...
Agriculture
Growing Degree Days (GDD) are a foundational metric in agriculture, used to predict when crops will germinate,...
Long before the term “regenerative agriculture” hit the vernacular, Lundberg Family Farms was expounding on the principles...
Multiple startups now offer tech for moving and monitoring cattle, from solar-powered smart collars (Halter, NoFence) to...
SenseUP—a startup developing biopesticides featuring double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to selectively zap plant pests via RNA interference—has raised...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Varaha.] Varaha, an Indian startup developing carbon dioxide...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Mark S. Brooks is former Head of FMC Ventures; former investment manager, Syngenta Ventures. Mark works at the...
Food formulators now have an array of options to replace synthetic dyes. But when it comes to...
“Soil health isn’t an abstract sustainability goal,” says Hunter Swisher. “It’s a systems strategy for producing what...
Certifications like “regenerative” and “organic” have their place in the food system, but they don’t tell the...
Michael Dean a the founding partner at AgFunder, the venture capital firm and parent company of AgFunderNews....
Crop protection company Provivi has struck an exclusive distribution deal with Syngenta to bring its pheromone-based Fall...
A commercial court has pronounced the judicial liquidation of French insect agriculture pioneer Ÿnsect following a hearing...
AI use among CPG executives has jumped 69% from last year, according to a new report from...
A widely cited “hallmark” paper on the safety of glyphosate-based chemical herbicides, including Roundup, was retracted last...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Ben Palen, principal at consultancy Ag Management Partners, is a fifth-generation farmer with diverse experiences in many facets of...
Natural capital project developer Cultivo has acquired carbon grasslands project developer Kateri, known as “the rancher’s carbon...
Cultivated meat startup Believer Meats—which is in the rarified position of having both a large-scale production facility...
