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| Sep 3, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Remembering Wendell Berry, Farmland LP’s new fund, Dairy Queen robots | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇸🇬 Sharpa raises over RMB 4.5 billion [$670 million] as it puts robots to work at Dairy Queen KR Asi... |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Record Cyclospora Outbreak Spans 41 States as Key Federal Tracker Sits Sidelined | By Terrence Hill
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| Jul 23, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Trump tariffs on Canada, McCormick + Unilever merger, Coca-Cola’s Fairlife hacked | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇯🇵 BlackRock, Temasek’s decarbonization partners leads $87 million round in sustainability solutions... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Here’s how to grow your own food with less water, even in a drought | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BRITTANY PETERSON
DENVER (AP) — A few raindrops fell as Heather Grady gingerly transplanted beet seedlings into the earth, but the sky refused to release enough moisture to ease her worries abou... |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Foodtech at a crossroads: recalibration, regulation, and harsh reality | “Two years ago we were talking about the winter being over in the next summer, but it feels like we are entering the ice age,” observes Plantible cofounder Tony Martens in this year’s AgFunderNews festive vox pop. “M&A and exit pathways... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | US Senator Adam Schiff Floats Bill to Fund National Alternative Protein Strategy | 4 Mins Read US Senator Adam Schiff has introduced a new bill to allocate over $500M in federal R&D funding and create a national strategy for alternative proteins.
A new bill calls on the US government to develop a national protein dive... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | AgriFood Signals: BinSentry bags another $25m, Lloyds backs regen ag, Zepto IPO | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 North American agtech BinSentry clinches $25M from CIBC Innovation Banking Global Ag Investing
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| Dec 5, 2025 | Regenerative-organic certification must start at the farm level | Ben Palen, principal at consultancy Ag Management Partners, is a fifth-generation farmer with diverse experiences in many facets of agriculture in North America, Africa, and the Middle East.
The views expressed in this article are the autho... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Maalexi, Vox AI raise funds, Keurig Dr. Pepper buys Peet’s, 2026 Farm Robotics Challenge | Agriculture-focused fintech startup Maalexi landed funding this week to scale operations in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, while conversational AI startup Vox AI bagged capital to bring its tech to restaurant drive thrus.
The bi... |
| Jul 17, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Remora Robotics nets $16m, Big Idea Ventures’ new cohort, Austria proposes cultivated meat ban | Soil science company Regrow this week announced it will make inroads into Brazil via a partnership with Embrapa, the country’s leading ag research organization. Foodtech accelerator Big Idea Ventures, which has widened its aperture beyond i... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | What Donald Trump’s Election Victory Means for Food Tech in the US | 6 Mins Read Donald J. Trump is president-elect again. Based on his track record and policy proposals, his election promises a rocky period for the US food tech sector.
America has just elected a climate change denier as president. In his fi... |
| Nov 1, 2024 | Denver Voters to Decide Fate of City's Last Slaughterhouse in Historic Ballot Measure | Hidden cameras at Superior Farms’ Denver slaughterhouse captured workers throwing lambs, among other instances of mishandling legal experts have called unlawful animal cruelty. (Photo credit: DxE)
Denver residents will soon vote on Initiate... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Are We at Peak CO2 Emissions? | News emerged last week that the world might have turned a corner in the effort to preserve a livable planet. A peak in carbon dioxide emissions could mark a pivotal shift in the climate battle. It’s important for journalists to convey the i... |
| May 22, 2024 | Uncovering the Ugly Truth Behind India’s Shrimp Farming Industry | 11 Mins Read Food and climate journalist Thin Lei Win speaks to Ian Urbina, executive editor of The Outlaw Ocean Project, about the organisation’s investigation into India’s shrimp farming industry.
On March 20, The Outlaw Ocean Project, a ... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Children face hunger across Deep South after states refuse summer food aid | The day school gets out for summer sparkles in the American imagination as a vision of children spilling out of classrooms into joyful weeks of freedom and warmth.
But in reality, the summer months bring something else for millions of child... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Food and Farm Communications Fund Impact Media Award Is Revolutionizing the Media Landscape | Food and Farm Communications Fund is honored to announce the 2024 Impact Media Awards with Virtual Ceremony Co-Hosted by Civil Eats and Whetstone Media
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Food and Farm Communications Fund (F... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | In Her Own Words: OG Vegan Dairy Queen Talks YouTube, New Cookbook & Life Post Miyoko’s Creamery | 6 Mins Read Following a rollercoaster of a couple of years, Miyoko Schinner speaks to Green Queen about leaving Miyoko’s Creamery, news about the company’s potential sale, and her future plans.
It’s been a few months since Miyoko Schinner c... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | ‘Not all crackers look the same.’ Sustainability intel platform HowGood targets land-use emissions with latest tool | Corporates missing sustainability targets is an old problem, but there’s a new urgency surrounding it in light of accelerating climate change and agrifood’s responsibility for one third of global emissions. While consumers, investors and go... |
| Sep 18, 2023 | How Sustainable is Animal-Free Dairy? We Compare Precision Fermentation LCAs | 10 Mins Read Precision fermentation, described as the third pillar of alt-protein alongside plant-based and cultivated foods, is on the rise. There are at least 62 companies working in this space globally across the supply chain, with a big... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | The climate wrecking ball striking food supply | Extreme weather events and our warming planet are primed to strike commodities and the food supply like never before.
Why it matters: The recent global heat wave, deadly floods across China's grain belt and wildfires that spanned several co... |
| May 14, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Kathleen Merrigan: These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and how the U.S. eats | By Kathleen Merrigan
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that will shape what kind of food U.S. farmers grow, how they raise it and how it gets to consumers. These measures are large, complex and expensiv... |
| May 12, 2023 | Leftovers: Dos Equis leans into low-alcohol trend with new beer; Flipz twists into State Fair pretzels | Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can’t write about everything that we get pitched, so here are som... |
| Jan 2, 2023 | 23 things we think will happen in 2023 | This will be the fourth year in a row that the staff of Future Perfect has given itself the task of trying to predict, well, the future. It’s in the name of the section, but forecasting is something that can benefit you as a thinker whether... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Propagate raises $10M Series A to advance agroforestry industry | Funding will allow commercialization of its agroforestry-focused software, development, and financing ecosystem
Propagate, a commercial agroforestry platform, has closed a $10M Series A led by Belgium-based The Nest. Other investors include... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | Enriched Ag discusses its $9m mega-seed round & how it could help ranchers rein in cattle emissions | US-based Enriched Ag recently closed a $9 million seed round for its grazing and carbon insights platform for ranchers and landowners.
Radical Ventures and Future Ventures led the round.
Enriched Ag will use the funding to develop and deplo... |
| Nov 9, 2022 | A mini guide to agroforestry: what is it & how can it improve ag and fight climate change? | Like many regenerative and restorative agricultural practices, agroforestry is a newish term for an ancient concept.
Cultures around the world have for centuries relied on traditional land-use practices that link trees, crops and livestock ... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Attack ads in full force as election nears | The claws are coming out in California — not because it was just Halloween, but because voters have only one week left to cast their ballots for the Nov. 8 election.
As campaigns enter the final countdown, fights over hotly contested seats ... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Paint it Green: Meat & Dairy’s Top Greenwashing Tactics, Exposed | 6 Mins Read
Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement – a new opinion column by Irina Gerry
If cows were a country, they would compete with the United States for the title of the world’s second-highest emitter. Cows alone p... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener | Berlin-based agriTech startup Klim is in a hurry to get farmers adopting so-called ‘regenerative’ methods — which are touted as less harmful to soils and biodiversity than conventional farming — arguing this evolution offers the best chance... |
| Aug 26, 2022 | There is No Such Thing as Low Carbon Beef | 5 Mins Read Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement – a new opinion column by Irina Gerry
There has been a lot of chatter lately about “Low Carbon Beef”, but does the climate math hold up?
The United States Department of ... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | USDA’s Proposed Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards Would Deliver First Federal Legal Standards for Farm Animals | Pasture Raised Chickens that would be allowed to have outdoor access under new proposed rule
Final Rule Should Be Implemented With One-Year Phase In; Option for a 15-Year Phase-In for Laying Hen Welfare Is Absurd and Unacceptable
This rule ... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: WayCool bags $40m, Rohlik raises $231m despite e-grocery woes | Indian farmer-to-business marketplace WayCool landed another round of funding this week, as did Czech e-grocery startup Rohlik. Elsewhere, France’s HappyVore secured nearly $40 million to open a facility for plant-based meat, and cereal gia... |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Brief: Nanobubble startup Moleaer raises $40m to make water more impactful for agri and aquaculture | US startup Moleaer has closed a $40 million Series C round for its nanobubble technology that treats and enriches water systems for a variety of industries, including agriculture and aquaculture. Apollo led the round, joined by Husqvarna Gr... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | BREAKING: John Kempf’s innovation-forward regenerative agriculture business Advancing Eco Agriculture raises $4.7m | If you’ve met John Kempf you’ll remember.
His appearance is one thing; he’s Amish and dresses accordingly. The silhouette of his boater kapp has become a trademark in a US agriculture industry characterized by plaid shirts and jeans and, in... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Why 48,000 California Grocery Workers Have Authorized A Strike | UFCW 770 member voting to authorize a strike in California. UFCW Local 770 |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Leftovers: So Delicious takes aim at dairy ice cream fans; Patagonia, Dogfish Head harness carbon-sucking grain for new brew | Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can't write about everything that we get pitched, so here are som... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | ‘Double climate dividend’ awaits high-income countries that adopt plant-based diet: study | High-income nations that shift towards plant-based eating will benefit from a “double climate dividend” of reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhanced carbon sequestration, according to the findings of a recent study published in Na... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | U.S. Food Prices Are Up. Are the Food Corporations to Blame for Taking Advantage? | 2021 was a bad year for grocery bills. Shoppers paid 6.4% more for groceries in November 2021 compared to November 2020, according to the consumer price index. All food prices were up a bit more than usual but the most dramatic price increa... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Do Welfare Certifications Raise The Bar For Farm Animals? | Pigs are kind, smart animals with complex personalities. However, when born to a life on a factory ... [+] farm, they don’t get to exhibit their natural behaviors. But what about pigs that are animal welfare certified? Tim Graham/Getty Imag... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | How to truly ‘fix’ our global food system | Sharon Cittone is founder and CEO at food sustainability consultancy Edible Planet Ventures, based in Milan, Italy. The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of AFN.
As we watch ev... |
| Jul 24, 2021 | Heatwaves are killing workers on the job. The government needs to set new rules for employers before more Americans needlessly die. | A man wipes sweat from his face in sweltering heat. Getty Extreme heat is a public health crisis, just like the coronavirus pandemic. Essential workers and communities of color are put at higher risk for heat-related illness and lack protec... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Biden administration eyes ag as anti-competitive | WASHINGTON — Agriculture, together with the labor, health care and technology sectors, will be subject to heightened enforcement challenging industry consolidation and anti-competitive behavior, according to a July 9 announcement from the W... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Biden administration eyes ag as anti-competitive | WASHINGTON — Agriculture, together with the labor, health care and technology sectors, will be subject to heightened enforcement challenging industry consolidation and anti-competitive behavior, according to a July 9 announcement from the W... |
| Jun 5, 2021 | Costco says it’s getting more expensive keep the rotisserie chicken at $4.99, but it won’t raise the price | Costco CFO says that the company is under “inflationary pressures” with shortages.
The company says it won’t increase the $4.99 rotisserie chicken price.
The rotisserie chicken is sold at a loss to draw in customers.
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| Jun 2, 2021 | Shef raises $20M to expand its homemade meal delivery marketplace | It’s still a bit of a legal maze, but more cities are coming around to the idea of letting local home chefs bring in more income by selling homecooked meals to those nearby.
Shef is a marketplace meant to help these home chefs connect with ... |
| May 18, 2021 | Pew Charitable Trusts : New Environmental Justice Measures Might Revive Cap-and-Trade | SEATTLE - After years of failed attempts, Washington state lawmakers last month celebrated the narrow passage of a bill that places an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions and charges polluters for their contributions to climate change.
But... |
| May 13, 2021 | Your College Is Probably Evil. Here’s How to Pressure It Into Doing Better | Because We Can is an ongoing series about making politics a practice, even when there isn’t a national election looming.
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Although conservatives characterize universities as “bubbles” insulated from “real world” problems, social i... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Instacart Expands EBT SNAP Payment To Three New Retailers | Instacart recently expanded EBT SNAP payment to three new retailers. Photo: Instacart |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Future Food News Review Podcast: Is cultured meat delicious? Should hydroponically-grown food be organic? | A couple of weeks ago we hosted our second Future Food News Review on Clubhouse with leading journalists reporting on the front lines of the foodtech, agtech and food systems revolution. (Read about the first edition here.)
Join us for the ... |
| Mar 18, 2021 | Why Kroger's Store Closures And Hazard Pay Reaction Are So Unsettling | Supermarket workers hold placards in protest in front of a Food 4 Less supermarket in Long Beach, ... [+] California on February 3, 2021, after a decision by owner Kroger to close two supermarkets rather than pay workers an additional $4.00... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Costco’s iconic $5 rotisserie chicken is under fire from animal rights activists | The organisation Mercy for Animals published a critique of Costco’s chicken production practices.
The group says chickens live in filth and suffer injuries.
Costco is well known for its commitment to keeping rotisserie chickens priced at on... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Can Farmers Beat The Data Drought? | Founder and CEO at InnerPlant, making living sensors to help farmers become more profitable and more sustainable. |
| Jan 2, 2021 | 250 million farmers in India are taking a stand against the government as part of the biggest protest in history. Here's why the US and the world should pay attention. | "No farmers, no food." Members of human rights organisations hold placards in support of farmers during a protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms in Amritsar on December 10, 2020. Narinder Nanu/AFP via... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Let’s Refocus Agri-Food Tech To Solve Today’s Critical Problems | The 4 S's: See Problems, Seek Solutions, Solve Problems and Scale SolutionsCanva |
| Dec 21, 2020 | The Top 10 Trends In Plant-Based Food In 2020—And Where We’re Going In 2021 | Plant-based meat was just one of many trends in the vegan category to skyrocket this year.getty |
| Dec 21, 2020 | Quantum dot startup UbiQD raises $7m Series A for electricity free CEA lighting | Advanced materials startup UbiQD (pronounced ‘ubiquity’ and short for ubiquitous quantum dots) has closed a $7 million Series A funding co-led by Scout Ventures and Keiretsu Forum, with additional participation from Sun Mountain Capital, Ep... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Kalera expands indoor vertical farming footprint: 'We're going to take a lot of market share' | Following a $150m fundraise completed earlier this year, Kalera -- which currently operates two growing facilities in Orlando (one at the Orlando World Center Marriott) -- is slated to have six commercial growing facilities open and opera... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Is Joe Biden On Top Of The Climate Agenda When It Comes To Agriculture? | 1
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Fires rage in the West as storms, hurricanes, and floods hit the rest of the country. Progressives are pushing Biden to transform the food system and manage and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.... |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Mooove it or lose it: Why Soilworks launched its own regenerative beef brand | Texan VC Soilworks hit the ground running when it debuted in June with its acquisition of Pasture Map. Co-founders Lew Moorman and Ed Byrne don’t show any signs of stopping.
The San Antonio-based, regenerative ag-focused firm recently unvei... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | How To Break Free From The ‘Pesticide Treadmill’ | Founder and CEO at InnerPlant, making living sensors to help farmers become more profitable and more sustainable. |
| Jul 11, 2019 | Regenerative Agriculture is Having a Moment and 70 Investments Worth $47.5bn are in it | Regenerative agriculture is having a moment. For long-time regen ag practitioners and proponents, this is probably jarring. But having written about regenerative agriculture for five years now, I’ve never seen such engagement or our stories... |
| May 28, 2019 | Regenerative agriculture is getting more mainstream. But how scalable is it? | “Some terms defy definition. ‘Sustainable agriculture’ has become one of them,” writes the USDA National Agricultural Library. “In such a quickly changing world, can anything be sustainable? What do we want to sustain?”
Amid increasing cons... |
| May 17, 2019 | Framing Climate Change as a 'National Security Threat' Is Dangerous | On Wednesday, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced the “Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act” in a Twitter thread and an accompanying Medium post. The thrust of the bill, according to the Medium post, is for the milita... |
| Apr 22, 2019 | We'll be eating the first Crispr'd foods within 5 years, according to a geneticist who helped invent the blockbuster gene-editing tool | The gene-editing tool Crispr can be used to make mushrooms that don't brown or strawberries with a longer shelf life.
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A geneticist at the University of California who helped invent the gene-editing tool Crispr told Busin... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | 3 Obstacles Facing the Urban Agriculture Industry in New York | Results of a new study in New York suggest that urban agriculture may not be able to provide the bevy of benefits that have excited consumers and enticed investors
Urban farming may not be the panacea for healthier, locally-grown food and b... |
| Feb 13, 2019 | Why Did Global Food Giant ADM Invest in Volcanic Microbes? | ADM Ventures, the venture capital arm of Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest food commodities and processing companies, is purposeful about the types of companies it considers investing in.
“We focus on the core of what ADM d... |
| Aug 9, 2018 | AgriFood News: Singapore’s Largest Indoor Farm, SoftBank to Invest $750m into Pizza Robot? SWIIM Raises $3m, more | The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines submitted each week by members of the AgFunder community through our news sharing platform #feedit. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers in the commen... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Accelerators targeting foodtech companies | They include Good Food Business Accelerator, Land O’Lakes’ Dairy Accelerator and H-Farm
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but ... |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: USDA Approves CRISPR-Edited Food While Bucking NOSB Recommendations, more | Doors Open for CRISPR Applications in Food, and Maybe People
The USDA will no longer regulate crops that have undergone gene editing, opening the door for applications of CRISPR technology in agriculture and food production. The decision ad... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Smithfield Partners with Agtech Startup to Convert Controversial Hog Waste Lagoons into Sustainable Fertilizer | Smithfeld Foods, the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer, is launching a partnership with Florida startup Anuvia Plant Nutrients to convert the hog manure created by the company’s farming operations into fertilizer.
Anuvia Plant... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Y Combinator Sweet On Cultured Meat, Granular Partners with Planet, Another Startup Pays for Data, more | Granular Partners with Analytics Company Planet
Granular, the digital arm of DowDuPont’s agriculture vision has partnered with Planet, an integrated aerospace and data analytics company to incorporate its global satellite imagery data into ... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Insect M&A, Kraft Heinz Launches Incubator, Startup Makes Egg Protein from Fungi, more | Alltech president and founder Dr. Pearse Lyons dies at 73
Dr. Pearse Lyons founded Alltech in the 1970s after immigrating to America in the 1970s. The global company provides products related to animal feed, food safety, crop science, and a... |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Gates Puts $40m Behind Livestock Vaccinations, Kroger Courts Alibaba, New John Deere Partners, more | Gates Foundation Pledges $40m to Livestock Rease
Following a trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Bill Gates traveled to Edinburgh to announce a $40 million investment in Global Alliance for Livestock Vete... |
| Jan 12, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Trump Supports Rural Broadband, Sodexo Gets into Delivery Game, Biotech IPO Back On, more | President Trump Calls for ‘Great, Great’ Rural Broadband
Following a speech at the American Farm Bureau annual convention, President Trump signed an executive order that paves the way for companies to locate broadband infrastructure on fede... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: California Cuts Food Waste, Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban, Rabo Launches $1bn Fund, more | Europe to Vote on Glyphosate Ban
On Tuesday, October 24, the European Parliament will vote on whether to ban Monsanto’s controversial pesticide glyphosate in the next three years. The following day, the European Commission’s Standing Commit... |
| Jun 2, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Climate Corp Integrates 3 Aerial Imagery Startups into FieldView, more | Climate Corporation Integrates 3 Aerial Imagery Startups into FieldView
The Climate Corporation is integrated of imagery from aerial imagery startups Ceres Imaging, TerrAvion and Agribotix, to deliver high-resolution imagery to farmers thro... |
| May 19, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: FBN Researching Seed Labels, Syngenta Opens Digital Innovation Lab, more | Farmers Business Network Conducting Seed Relabeling Research
Farmers Business Network, a farm data service that also offers input procurement, is conducting research regarding seed relabeling. According to the company, seed brands relabel s... |
| May 8, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Hampton Creek Lays Off Staff Struggling to Fundraise, Impossible Foods Boosts Management, more | Hampton Creek CEO Cleans House Amid Fundraising Woes
Hampton Creek, which created a vegan egg-less mayo spread, has only raised $7 million toward its recently established goal of capturing $150 million in new capital. So, CEO Josh Tetrick i... |
| 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 4, 2017 | In bid to survive, legacy fishing family to open San Francisco floating fish market | Just a few decades ago, hundreds of fishing trawlers combed the California coast, scooping up fish for local markets. Today, just a handful do so, and the markets are inundated with cheap imported seafood.
And fishermen like Giuseppe Pennis... |
| Feb 3, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Agtech Accelerators Launch & Expand, Syngenta Launches AI Challenge, Vestaron’s New Hire, more | Nuritas Founder Named Woman of the Decade at Women Economic Forum
Founder and chief scientific officer at Nuritas, a digital biotechnology startup, received the Woman of the Decade in Business and Leadership award at the Women Economic Foru... |
| Jan 16, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief, Amber Agriculture Wins Best Startup At CES, Agribotix Partners with SenseFly, Larta Wins SBA Tibbetts Award, more | Amber Agriculture Named ‘Best Startup’ at CES by Engadget
Illinois-based startup Amber Agriculture, a startup that automates farmers’ grain storage through wireless sensors and internet of things technology, was award Best Startup at the re... |
| Nov 24, 2016 | How Technology is Disrupting Your Thanksgiving Dinner | For many Americans, holidays are about traditions that usually involve food. Iconic meals like Thanksgiving turkey, Christmas hams, and black eyed peas on New Year’s Eve have endured for several generations. Although the menu may stay large... |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Ag Industry Brief: Big Strides in Cannabis Legalization, Organic Farmland Hits New Highs, Trimble’s Precision Ag Products, more | Veterans Can Look to Agriculture
On November 11, 1918, the First World War ended and that date is marked by countries across the globe as Remembrance Day or Armistice Day in Europe and the Commonwealth, or Veterans Day in the US.
In the US,... |
| Jul 18, 2016 | raceAhead: Black CEO Calls for Candid Talk on Race Issues | As the country reels from yet another tragic shooting, Bernard J. Tyson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and one of America’s most prominent black CEOs, has written a candid essay calling for unity. In the essay, shared exclusively with Fortun... |
| Jul 13, 2016 | raceAhead: Understanding Obama’s Plea for Unity | President Obama delivered somber and emotional remarks Tuesday afternoon at an interfaith memorial service with the families of the five police officers killed in the recent sniper attacks in Dallas and other members of the Dallas community... |
| Jul 13, 2016 | The Mixing Bowl: More Collaboration Needed to Meet the Key Challenges Facing Food and Ag Today | The Mixing Bowl convened in Mountain View, California, this week to discuss how IT innovation is transforming the food and agriculture industry.
The opening panel — consisting of a consultant, two journalists, an academic, and a food compan... |
| Mar 20, 2016 | Industry-in-Brief: GMO Labeling Bill Dies, Precision Ag Partnerships Signed, Senate Addresses Honeybee Decline, more | GMO Labeling Bill Dies in Senate Cloture Vote; General Mills to Begin Labeling GMO Ingredients
A GMO labeling bill designed to preempt states from enacting their own GMO labeling laws failed to secure the 60 votes necessary for cloture on C... |
| 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... |
| Apr 24, 2011 | Food Is The New Frontier In Green Tech | This is a guest post from Ali Partovi, angel investor, startup advisor and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded iLike, acquired by Myspace in 2009, and LinkExchange, acquired by Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. His portfolio has included s... |
| EGEB: Guatemalans emigrate due to climate-change-induced food shortages; nitrous oxide emissions, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Food shortage due to climate change is forcing Guatemalans to migrate north.
Why nitrous oxide is as much of a problem as CO2 emissions.
Florida’s 100% renewable energy bill has been revived — ... |
| Let’s Refocus Agri-Food Tech To Solve Today’s Critical Problems | What critical problems are my actions solving today? Can we in the agri-food tech innovation space ask ourselves this question more frequently?
We live in a time of unprecedented innovation and unprecedented challenges. The determining fac... |
