Switch Bioworks—a startup engineering nitrogen fixing microbes that colonize plant roots before switching on ammonia production several...
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Natural real asset manager SLM Partners has secured new funding for its SLM Silva Fund II, which...
Neutralizing the “off switch” for starch production in plants could be the key to unlocking higher yields...
Startups, investors, and media outlets like this one love to talk about the potential benefits of digitizing...
Norwegian crop nutrition giant Yara International has invested in Stenon, a German startup that measures soil nitrogen...
A court in Delaware has dismissed a high-profile lawsuit filed by Onego Bio against The EVERY Company,...
US spray drone market “very much in flux” as firms attempt to navigate evolving landscape, says ASDC
US spray drone market “very much in flux” as firms attempt to navigate evolving landscape, says ASDC
Ten months after the FCC’s bombshell decision to ban sales of new models of foreign made drones...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Food grown to Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) standards can be measurably more nutritious than its conventional counterparts,...
Could the rise of GLP-1 drugs finally give food companies—and ultimately farmers and plant breeders—the incentive to...
The recent news of Twiga entering into administration sent shockwaves through African tech, marking a dramatic conclusion...
Myca, best known for its AI agents that coordinate agribusiness field teams, has raised $1.3 million in...
Foodtech has been through boom, bust and reset, and investors are now looking well beyond alternative protein...
Can robots inspired by elephant trunks finally crack the economics of autonomous fruit harvesting? While other orchard...
French precision fermentation startup Verley is now producing the dairy protein beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) in 200,000-liter fermentation tanks...
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Resurrect Bio] In the evolutionary arms race between plants...
Scientists, policy experts, NGOs and farmers gathered in Brussels Thursday and Friday to tackle a tough question:...
Ammonia is essential to modern agriculture, but making it via the traditional Haber-Bosch process is carbon-intensive and...
AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding...
Austrian alt meat startup Revo Foods is targeting profitability by the third quarter of 2027 as it...