There is zero differentiation or branding in the space; all the players are stuck in Motorola Land, going no further than saying “We are plant-based." | Continue reading
Project Carbonview aims to help corn growers to better report and analyze their carbon footprint across the entire supply chain. | Continue reading
Jupiter Ionics says it has found a way to produce ammonia – a key fertilizer ingredient – on-demand, using only air, water, and renewable electricity. | Continue reading
Impossible Foods has raised a total of almost $2 billion as a result of this latest round, which was led by South Korea's Mirae Asset. | Continue reading
Wolt CEO Miki Kuusi will become head of DoorDash International, leading its global expansion efforts and reporting directly to the US company's CEO Tony Xu. | Continue reading
Releaf recently raised $4.2 million to build palm oil processing facilities across Nigeria that it claims can boost the sector's productivity 200x. | Continue reading
Picnic dispatches groceries from strategically located, automated hubs to its customers' doorsteps using electric minivans. | Continue reading
Gates isn't the only one to have recognized that farmland can lead to solid returns. More and more investors are flocking to the asset class. | Continue reading
Quantum hardware's depth of analysis would likely advance our understanding of the genetic code of plants – and humans – far beyond what we know today. | Continue reading
Cargill CEO Dave MacLennan also said that he doesn't expect China's domestic livestock feed industry to become self-sufficient anytime soon. | Continue reading
ProducePay will use the capital to expand its presence in Latin American markets, while also building out its tech and sales capabilities. | Continue reading
Stakeholders can no longer put off investment into food supply chain tech - but where do they start? Seana Day and Brita Rosenheim offer some clues. | Continue reading
PowerPollen has come up with a way to apply pollen to female plant parts any time of day or night, maximizing yield and reducing risk. | Continue reading
AppHarvest will use the Root AI Virgo robot to help its employees with harvest as well as tidying up around its high-tech greenhouses. | Continue reading
AI is often thought to have the goal of replicating the inner workings of the human brain. But is there another way to look at what it can do for us? | Continue reading
AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: the problem of food security, writes Joseph Byrum. | Continue reading
The deals mark a significant amping-up for Beyond Meat, which has so far only launched limited foodservice trials in the US, Canada, and China. | Continue reading
Jüsto announced its $65m Series A led by General Atlantic this week, the biggest Series A round in Latin America for a decade. | Continue reading
The Center for Food Safety claims the US agency approved heme without conducting "long-term animal studies needed to determine if it harms human health." | Continue reading
Cargill hopes Splinter can make supply chain collaboration the new industry norm - using blockchain's best bits, while keeping competitive info under wraps. | Continue reading
Greenhouses and vertical farms may finally be getting cost competitive with their conventional, outdoor and open-field peers. | Continue reading
Vow is building a library of animal cells from across the world, enabling 'hundreds upon hundreds' of combinations to create optimized alt-proteins. | Continue reading
Eat Just got the greenlight from the Singapore Food Agency to sell its cultured chicken in the city-state – the first such regulatory approval in the world. | Continue reading
Vietnam's Cricket One has just launched a burger patty made from its farmed house crickets; consumers couldn't differentiate it from beef, the startup says. | Continue reading
Thought For Food (TFF) and Food Lab Accelerator at Google (FLAG) have unveiled the winner of this year's TFF x FLAG Circular Economy of Food Prize. | Continue reading
Indigo Ag and Nori have revealed the first corporate buyers of farmer-generated carbon credits traded on their marketplaces. | Continue reading
From Ukraine to Syria to Yemen, satellite data - including imagery and AI-driven analytics - is helping to track the impact of conflict on agriculture. | Continue reading
India will be home to more than 1.4 billion people in 2030. That 17% of the global population will be looking to eat more meat, not less. | Continue reading
With Woolworths and GrainCorp among its other backers, FutureFeed wants to build an entire value chain to cultivate and commercialize its seaweed additive. | Continue reading
Climate Neutral's Brand Emissions Estimator is available to enterprises that obtain its net-zero certification - including in the food and ag sectors. | Continue reading
Many food safety claims, such as “antibiotic-free”, “never-ever-antibiotic,” and “hormone-free,” are based on little more than producer affidavits. | Continue reading
Oatly deal shows new celebrity backers are becoming seasoned agrifood investors, with the Swedish company just the latest bet they've made in the space. | Continue reading
This new farm tech market map recognizes the continued expansion of the agtech industry each year, and the need to split out farm tech from the messy middle | Continue reading
88% of the US population is not in metabolic health. Frighteningly that means they're all at a higher risk of complications from the Covid-19 virus. | Continue reading
This is not just kidding around with mind-bending science experiments for its own sake; dozens of applications exist for spider silk. | Continue reading
Tortuga is debuting a commercial robotics-as-a-service model this spring after quitely working with farmer partners during stealth mode R&D. | Continue reading
South Korea's Mirae Asset led the round, with existing backers including Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and Singapore sovereign fund Temasek joining in. | Continue reading
Next week I'll be singing au revoir Londres, bonjour agri-robots as I fly to France for the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics, known as FIRA. | Continue reading
Recent comments from the Sec’y of Agriculture have rallied small farmers across the country who aren’t going out without a fight. | Continue reading
Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors. And now, food may be next. | Continue reading
Yamaha Motor Ventures' Nolan Paul tells AFN the biggest challenges for robotics and why he thinks Advanced Farm Technologies will go all the way. | Continue reading
Companies are feeling public pressure to reduce the amount of plastic they use. A new breed of innovators is responding with eco-friendly alternatives to conventional materials. | Continue reading
Plant-based ground beef has become a staple at several fast food restaurants across the US. Now food retailers are demanding other alternatives, but creating viable plant-based alternatives for other food types like dairy, seafood, muscle cuts, and poultry could prove trickier. I … | Continue reading
A new report predicts that technology will be a big player in the rapidly-transforming supermarket segment, including everything from streamlining back-end logistics to rendering checkout lines obsolete. | Continue reading
The free app is aimed at helping overstretched and frustrated farmers take advantage of futures markets, which are complex and time-consuming, using research-based software and automation. | Continue reading
This Thanksgiving, we at AgFunder are thankful for our portfolio companies. Over the last year, we have invested in transformational food system companies, operating across the supply chain, from farm to fork. | Continue reading
The startup measures data from beehives -- including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data -- and analyzes that data to provide beekeepers with alerts about potential issues that could lead to bee colony losses. | Continue reading