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| Sep 24, 2026 | Sound Agriculture launches seed-applied biological to preserve yields on high ammonium corn acres | Ammonia and manure are two of the most effective ways to give corn the nitrogen it needs, but they come with a cost to the soil, says Jeff Divan, VP of agronomy at US-based Sound Agriculture.
Ammonia makes the soil more acidic and kills off... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Proteinmaxxing is reshaping dining — and pushing small restaurants to the brink | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nava Rawls, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — It’s lunchtime at Fountain Grains & Greens in East Hollywood, a counter-service restaurant where customers increasingly prefer their rice and vege... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Leaps By Bayer backs Sabanto to bring ‘practical autonomy to more farms’ | Sabanto, best known for its autonomy retrofit system for agriculture, has raised an oversubscribed Series B round to bring “practical autonomy to more farms,” according to founder and CEO Craig Rupp.
“We believe autonomy should reduce capit... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | NC farmer weighs in as Persian Gulf fertilizer crisis widens: ‘You will see a massive decline in yield and acres’ | Rising costs and fertilizer shortages—turbocharged by war in the Persian Gulf—are already reshaping planting decisions for US farmers, says one record-holding farmer growing corn and soybeans, along with barley, oats, triticale, and wheat o... |
| Mar 5, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches paraquat, TARGAN bags $100m for animal health, AeroFarms for sale | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 TARGAN secures $100m growth financing from Symbiotic Capital GK News
🇦🇺 PlasmaLeap raises $20m to... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | MAGA’s Big Miscalculation | In the shadow of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, something remarkable seems to be happening that Trump’s movement seems completely unable to see. Trapped within their own epistemic bubble, MAGA appears to have fundamentally misread the politi... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier | Human-caused climate change has worsened multiple U.S. extreme heat events this year and has steadily increased the likelihood of hotter overnight temperatures since 1970, according to Climate Central, an independent group of scientists who... |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Bayer ‘turning over every stone’ to ‘significantly contain’ glyphosate litigation by end of 2026 | Bayer will “significantly contain” glyphosate litigation by the end of 2026, CEO Bill Anderson said this week during the company’s second-quarter 2025 earnings call.
“Every decision we make has the goal of positioning the company to move pa... |
| Aug 7, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Aerofarms raises equity, TerraBlaster bags $4m, Rihanna backs Africa’s female climate founders | While summertime usually makes for a low volume of funding rounds, there is plenty of other activity happening in agrifoodtech. Several funds and grants made headlines, including Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, which is backing women cli... |
| May 29, 2025 | Exclusive: FarmQA closes oversubscribed seed round, aims to ‘supercharge’ agronomists with AI | AI-based agronomic advisory platform FarmQA has closed a $4 million seed round led by VC firm gener8tor’s North Dakota arm, gener8tor 1889.
“Significant participation” came from Kevin O’Leary’s VC firm via the Wonder Fund North Dakota as we... |
| Nov 13, 2024 | Farmland marketplace CommonGround talks cash-lease insurance and going ‘back to basics’ as a company | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in CommonGround.]
The $3 trillion dollar farmland real estate industry has historically lacked transparency, particularly when it comes how much that land is worth and who is... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Breaking: Edison Agrosciences lands fresh funds to make natural rubber from sunflower crops | US-based biomaterials developer Edison Agrosciences has raised $600,000 in seed financing to advance its work in developing sunflower crops for rubber production.
St. Louis, Missouri-based BioGenerator participated along with the Missouri T... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Envisioning a future where food is synonymous with health, fostering longevity, productivity, and societal well-being | If you missed Carter’s testimony at the Senate hearing, “Feeding a Healthier America: Current Efforts and Potential Opportunities for Food is Medicine,” the replay is available here.
The hearing emphasized the importance of nutrition to red... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Biologicals are ‘economically unfeasible’ for growers. Equipment manufacturers could change that | Collaboration is one of those words used so often in the ag biologicals space it’s in danger of becoming meaningless. While few would argue the point that more stakeholders must work together to advance the space, we so far have only a hand... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Avian influenza found in US dairy cattle | Listen to the article 4 min
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The Agriculture Department on Monday identified highly pathogenic avian influenza in Texas and Kansas dairy cattle herds as the d... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024 | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop protection derived from naturally occurring substances like microbes, peptides, and plants — have labored under the shadow of these labels,... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | 🎥CH4 Global CEO: ‘Cow burps are the single largest source of methane globally’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews‘ parent company AgFunder is an investor in CH4 Global.]
Red seaweed (Asparagopsis) is widely recognized as one of the most effective tools for reducing methane production in ruminant animals (burping cows). The cha... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Umiami raises $34.7m for plant-based whole cuts, Bonsai Robotics bags $13.5m, Blue Apron to sell for$103m | This week, French plant-based meat startup Umiami snagged €32.5m ($34.7m) to take its whole cuts platform to the US; Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew raised A$24.4m ($15.3m) to scale up animal-free casein production; and ... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Biologicals won’t replace chemical crop inputs anytime soon. Here’s why | With all the talk these days of “sustainable food systems,” “regenerative agriculture,” and “climate-smart farming,” it’s tempting to imagine that the end of chemical pesticides, fertilizers and other inputs is just around the corner.
It is... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform | This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform, and biofertilizer startup Anuvia Plant Nutri... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | BetterSeeds creates GMO cowpeas to replace soy | Dive Brief:
Israeli plant genome editing company BetterSeeds created a type of cowpea — also known as black-eyed pea — that stands up straighter and can be harvested the same way as soybeans.
Cowpeas are high in protein with a tolerance for... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | In the war on recession, Uncle Sam wants YOU — to party, party, party | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jul 19, 2022 | Who Owns America’s Farmland? And What Is Their Role In The Response To Climate Change? | TIPTON, IA - JULY 13: Corn and soybeans grow on a farm on July 13, 2018 near Tipton, Iowa. (Photo ... [+] by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| May 10, 2022 | Ukraine has a plan to start exporting its wheat again—but there’s a huge catch | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
For months, wheat shipments from Ukraine have been blocked by the Russian army, which has implemented blockades in... |
| Feb 10, 2022 | Food inflation to hit Super Bowl parties in 2022 | Dive Brief:
The cost of a Super Bowl party this year will be about 8% to 14% higher than in 2021, thanks mainly to higher meat and soft drink prices, according to an analysis by Wells Fargo economist Michael Swanson. He cited Bureau of Labo... |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Chinese Netizens Attack Vegetarianism Film, Cite ‘Blind Worship Of The West’ As Appetite For Beef Grows | 4 Mins Read
A 45-minute documentary in mainland China promoting vegetarianism has been heavily criticised across the country’s social media channels. Well-known Chinese actresses Zhang Jingchu and Tao Hong both appeared in the film, in whic... |
| Oct 1, 2021 | Fertoz : As China Stops Exports of Phosphate, what will be the impact on 11-52 Prices and Availability? | Phosphate Trends
Many may have seen these recent articles, pasted below. After years of exporting phosphate, and recent poor years in agriculture in China, they are stopping phosphate exports. How will this affect price, availability and lo... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Dishing the dirt on ag carbon credits | Dan Blaustein-Rejto is director of food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, US. The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily repres... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Pew Charitable Trusts : The Hemp Boom is Over. What Now? | When Matt Cyrus grew about 30 acres of hemp on his central Oregon hay and cattle farm four years ago, the cannabis plants-rich in cannabidiol, or CBD, a trendy wellness product-sold for about $40 a pound. That earned him a tidy profit. He p... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Positive Ag Cycle Brings Cash. Can It Also Bring New Social Impact To Ag Tech? | Bright days are here for agriculture, as commodity prices soar. Can we apply some of returns to ... [+] feeding the hungry?Adobe Stock |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Outlook For Farmers Is (Finally) Looking Brighter | Farmers will finally be seeing increasing crop prices.getty |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Walmart Pledges Zero Emissions By 2040 | Walmart center with installed rooftop solar panels.Corporate.walmart.com |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Digital ag: Why is predicting return on investment per field so hard? | Editor’s note: Dmytro Lennyi is agritech practice leader at Intellias, a software engineering and consulting firm based in Lviv, Ukraine, that assists tech companies with their software development needs. This article reflects the views of ... |
| Apr 6, 2020 | A quick look at the impact of Covid-19 on fresh produce and ag commodity prices | Global eating habits have changed dramatically in the wake of the widening Covid-19 pandemic. With bars and restaurants shutting down as entire countries go into lockdown, the world’s retailers have been scrambling to meet surging demand at... |
| Mar 3, 2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Farmobile patents blockchain tech to protect and manage growers’ data | Data privacy in agriculture has been an ongoing discussion or in some cases a heated debate. For farmers and agribusinesses, aggregating and analyzing crop production data can help improve crop yields and increase efficiencies in the proces... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | France’s Sencrop acquires sensor maker Visio-Green in start of consolidation play | Sencrop, which provides weather data to farmers throughout Europe with its agro-weather stations and sensors, has acquired Visio-Green Agriculture, a subsidiary of Latitude GPS in what Sencrop’s co-founder indicated would be the first “in a... |
| Dec 20, 2019 | Agtech will take off in 2020: 5 trends to watch | Editor’s Note: Corbett Kull is co-founder and CEO of Tillable, the farmland rental management platform, which helps landowners optimize returns and helps farmers access land to expand operations. He also cofounded 640 Labs, which was sold t... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | EXCLUSIVE: Canadian telecoms giant Telus acquires Decisive Farming | Telus, the Canadian telecommunications company, has acquired Canadian farmtech startup Decisive Farming, AFN can reveal.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Remi Schmaltz, CEO of Decisive Farming, confirmed the transaction.
“Yes, Decis... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Does the US agtech industry agree with Sonny Perdue’s ‘the big get bigger and the small go out?’ | October 12 was International Farmers Day, offering a day to celebrate farmers around the world including the 1% of Americans who grow food for not only the US but the world at large. Agriculture is becoming an increasingly popular discussio... |
| Aug 30, 2019 | Cargill pumps funding into meat & fish alternatives | Beef processor and commodities trading house Cargill is making big moves in the alternative protein space. This week it inked two deals, one for plant-based protein manufacturing and another in the fishmeal space.
The largest private compan... |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Farming is the world’s most important career — that’s why it needs a new image | Editor’s Note: Karn Manhas is founder and CEO of Terramera, an agbiotech startup focused on improving the sustainability of farming. Here he writes about the importance of promoting the farming industry as an appealing and impactful career ... |
| Jan 18, 2019 | CES 2019 showed us computer vision will go big this year | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las V... |
| Jan 18, 2019 | CES 2019 showed us computer vision will go big this year | At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas I encountered the usual collection of ever-larger flat-screen TVs, voice-activated home appliances, and wearable tech as far as the eye could see. But to my mind, CES 2019 may ultimately... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | Microsoft is Coming for Agriculture. Is That a Good Thing? | Here’s a headline I didn’t expect to see: “Microsoft Bringing AI to Ag.”
From the author of that headline in Farm Journal:
“Standing before a crowd of farmers at the 2018 Farm Journal AgTech Expo, keynote speaker Josh Henretig voiced what h... |
| Jan 8, 2019 | A List of Food Tech Startups That Defined 2018 Trends and What to Expect in 2019 | As the sun sets on food tech in 2018 and the dawn of a new year arrives, what can we say about 2018 and what can be expected of 2019? A diverse number of food tech innovations were developed and used by an equally diverse set of generations... |
| Dec 31, 2018 | Best of 2018: AgFunder’s Top 3 Guest Articles | The AgFunder Network grew to nearly 60,000 in 2018 as a combination of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, multinational corporate executives, government officials, institutional investors and more continue to turn their attention towards t... |
| Nov 19, 2018 | FDA Makes Move Towards Clearing Up Food Tech Regulation with New Action Plan | There are countless factors that impact innovation and how quickly it progresses. One of the most important, yet arguably least discussed, is regulation. In any technology space, a lack of regulations, overregulation, or ill-fitting regulat... |
| May 21, 2018 | Blockchain is Coming for Agriculture and You Might Not Even Notice | Editor’s Note: Remi Schmaltz is CEO of Decisive Farming, a Canadian software program for farms offering precision agronomics, data management, crop marketing, and telematics services. He has extensive agriculture knowledge after taking over... |
| Apr 21, 2018 | Six Startups Using Technology to Improve Soil Health | A rising chorus of investors and stakeholders, along with some farmers, are beginning to spread the message that the health of the soil is just as important as the health of the plants growing in it.
“In comparison to its importance, we hav... |
| Feb 1, 2018 | When it Comes to Soil Testing, We’ve Only Scratched the Surface | Editor’s Note: Remi Schmaltz is CEO of Decisive Farming, a Canadian software program for farms offering precision agronomics, data management, crop marketing, and telematics services. He took over his family’s ag retail company DynAgra Corp... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | Memphis Meats Adds Tyson to Investor List With Cargill, Gates, Branson, Musk, more | *First Published August 23, 2017. Updated January 29, 2018 to reflect new investment from Tyson Foods.
Tyson Foods‘ venture arm has joined the laundry list of well-known investors backing cultured meat developer Memphis Meats.
The San Franc... |
| Dec 28, 2017 | Best of 2017: AgFunder’s Top 7 Guest Articles | Our evergrowing global subscriber base of agrifood tech entrepreneurs, venture capital investors, agrifood corporates, governments, and enthusiasts means that we have an incredible amount of expertise in our 45,000-strong network. And lucki... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Food Giants Team-Up on Blockchain, Farms Prep for Hurricane Harvey, Cheaper Whole Foods, more | Food Giants Team Up to Develop Global Blockchain for Supply Chain
Walmart, Nestle, Driscoll’s, Tyson Foods Unilever, IBM, Dole and several other major food companies have teamed up to explore using blockchain technology (also known as a dis... |
| Aug 1, 2017 | Report: China’s Foreign Food & Ag Acquisitions Set to Increase | After a series of high profile acquisitions and more likely on the way, China is poised to have a much larger footprint in the global food supply chain in the near future, according to a new report from Rabobank. The report highlights six a... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Trump Signs Ag-Focused Exec Order, Finistere Hires in Israel, Indigo Launches Farmer Partner Program, more | Sonny Perdue Confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture
This week former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue was sworn in as the 31st Secretary of Agriculture of the US after the Senate voted in favor of his confirmation, 87-11. Now, rumors are circul... |
| Apr 24, 2017 | What is precision agriculture? | Editor’s note: Remi Schmaltz is CEO of Decisive Farming, a Canadian software company helping farms with precision agronomics, data management, crop marketing, and telematics services. He has extensive agriculture knowledge after taking over... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | Farm Management Software Will Be Key to Food Traceability | Editor’s Note: Remi Schmaltz is CEO of Decisive Farming, a Canadian software program for farms offering precision agronomics, data management, crop marketing, and telematics services. He has extensive agriculture knowledge after taking over... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Bayer Just Bought Monsanto, Here's Why You Should Care | Update: The US Department of Justice approved this merger in April, pending the sell off of a few assets.
A giant company just bought another giant company, but if you're not an investor or a farmer, you may not have noticed. Bayer—the aspi... |
| Jul 23, 2016 | CRISPR Will Shape the Future of Food | Read the full article on AG Web |
| Mar 4, 2016 | Industry-in-Brief: GMO Battle Wages On, Amazon Launches Fresh Food Delivery, Largest European Urban Farm Opens, more | The GMO Legislation Battle Wages On
The Senate Agriculture Committee voted in favor of Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) bill that would expressly preempt states from enacting mandatory GMO labeling laws. The bill is largely an effort to block V... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Monsanto Sells Precision Planting to John Deere, HelloFresh Files IPO, African Ag Investing, more | Welcome to another weekly news roundup with AgFunderNews. One of this week’s biggest stories is machinery giant John Deere’s purchase of Precision Planting from Monsanto.
Precision Planting, which offers both hardware and software products ... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | Fundings-in-Brief: Syngenta Sells Triticale Business to PE-backed Northern Seed, Origine Raises $10.3m, more | Welcome to another week of Fundings in Brief with AgFunderNews!
With Halloween right around the corner, images of bats are adorning porches and classrooms around the nation, but did you know bats may also be worth billions to the agricultur... |
| May 15, 2014 | Fish farms help China soybean imports recover | Soybean shipments to China are increasing again amid demand for poultry and aquaculture feed after purchases from the biggest buyer dropped earlier this year because of bird flu, a Bloomberg News survey shows.
Imports in the 12 months throu... |
| Mar 2, 2006 | Jail Time For The World's Worst Price Fixers | As sure as the sun, analysts expect that a coming DRAM glut will put a crimp on industry profits in the near future. Generally, such stories are about as newsworthy and frequent as reports of farmers in the midwest dealing with a drought. A... |
| China may be disrupting US companies because of Trump's tariff threats | Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. Thomas Peter/Reuters
The US and China are locked in a growing trade battle.
According to a new Washington Post report, US companies are already seeing delays and increased scrutiny... |
| John Deere under fire for laying off hundreds of American workers as it shifts manufacturing to Mexico | Tractor giant John Deere faced backlash after announced it was laying off hundreds of workers across the Midwest — even as it continues to operate a manufacturing hub in Mexico.
The Illinois-based company, which is the world’s largest selle... |
| EGEB: Austrian utility employees to isolate at work, US may follow suit | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Some Wien Energie employees are working and living in isolation, and US workers may do the same.
Here’s what is — and isn’t — on the table for energy in today’s US stimulus package.
New York St... |
| Here’s an item-by-item look at how much more expensive your groceries are, due to inflation | The cost of groceries keeps rising, and it looks like it’s going to stay that way.
Food-at-home prices are expected to increase between 3% and 4% by the end of 2022, according to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast.
This is in ... |
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| US stimulus package provides relief for oil and nothing for renewables or EVs | Senate Democrats and Republicans disagree about the latest stimulus package in response to the coronavirus pandemic. They are now frantically negotiating and aiming for a noon Eastern time vote. Here’s where energy and transport stand.
Repo... |
