Food waste goes up about 25% this time of year, with households the largest source, according to...
Agriculture
Europe may be on a mission to become a global biomanufacturing powerhouse, but right now, the environment...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech....
Thousands of grocery items in the US now bear the “Regenerative Organic Certified” label. But as momentum...
New field trial data on Romaine lettuce shows that organic fertilizer made from microbes that eat waste...
The global biostimulant market has hit $4.47 billion as it shifts from “opportunistic” growth to “more science-based...
New Zealand-based Ruminant BioTech, a startup behind what it claims is the most efficient livestock methane reduction solution...
Pivot Bio—which pioneered the use of microbial nitrogen to help farmers reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilizer...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech....
Rob Leclerc, PhD, is founding partner at AgFunder, the venture capital firm and parent company of AgFunderNews. I’m...
California-based ‘protein from air’ company Calysta has closed down its R&D labs and pilot plants in the...
Invisible losses are creeping through the dairy industry, hidden in the pipes. There are 12,000 dairies in...
Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Tractor Junction. India’s Tractor Junction, a startup enabling farmers...
Boise, Idaho-based Prosperity Organic Foods, Inc., the private company behind the Melt Organic dairy-free butter brand, has...
PlanetDairy—a Danish startup developing hybrid cheese, milk and other products combining dairy and plant-based ingredients—has acquired selected...
Most of the traits we care about in agriculture are not single gene traits, observes Avalo CSO...
Stand in a cornfield in Iowa, a shrimp farm in Vietnam or a palm oil plantation in...
Israeli agtech startup DailyRobotics is gearing up for commercial launch in California next April with a robotic...
Editor’s note: Gustavo Mamao is head of international business development at IdeeLab, Brazilian foremost CDMO in ag...
Insa M. Mohr is founder of Offbeast, a US-based startup making plant-based steaks. A former strategy consultant...
