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| Aug 12, 2026 | Agritech and Foodtech Surge: AI and Biotech Redefine Global Food Systems | Agritech and foodtech markets are booming. Significant capital infuses AI, biotech, and sustainable solutions across the global food system. Ambrook closed a $30M Series B for farm financial management software, reaching 8,000 customers. Pl... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Eatable Adventures launches accelerator, Ambrook raises $30m, LIVEKINDLY acquires Dalco | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 Plantible raises $35m in debt, equity, to increase RuBisCO protein production fivefold AgFunderNe... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Black Sea Grain Exports Face Structural Crisis: Ukraine Destroys Taman Terminal, Russia Warns | By Zachary Chambers
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| May 7, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Corteva names seed spinout, Vori bags $22m for AI grocery, FMC sells India biz | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and... |
| 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... |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Mytra Consulting Appoints Rural Broadband Pioneer Rick Harnish as Senior Advisor for Wireless and Fiber Strategy | Industry veteran and WISPA co-founder strengthens Mytra's support for rural ISPs, cooperatives, and broadband providers nationwide
ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Mytra Consulting today announced that Richard (Rick)... |
| Nov 30, 2025 | As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
The U.S. government has caused massive food waste during President Donald Trump’s second term. Policies such as immigration raids, tariff changes and temporary and ... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | HowGood & Watershed re-envisioning agrifood sustainability reporting through new partnership | Sustainability intelligence tracker HowGood said this week it will expand its partnership with enterprise sustainability platform Watershed to provide a “comprehensive sustainability reporting platform” to “any company with a significant fo... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Confection companies may pass higher cocoa costs on to consumers for Valentine’s Day | Listen to the article 3 min
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Chocolate boxes and truffles will cost more this Valentine’s Day as confection makers pass on higher cocoa prices to consumers already paying... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | Grain bins are hazardous. Nebraska startup Grain Weevil aims to make them safer through robotics | Chad Johnson had no formal background in agriculture or robotics when he started his Omaha, Nebraska-based robotics company Grain Weevil with his son in 2021.
“It started out as a challenge,” he tells AgFunderNews. “A local farmer and a fri... |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Farmers ‘ready and willing to try’ biological crop solutions. Only ‘strong business models’ need apply | The ag biologicals sector has seen numerous changes over the last year spanning the technological, regulatory, and ag retail realms, to name a few. There is also an increasingly louder call from consumers and governments alike for more biol... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Fermentation Frenzy: ProteinDistillery's €15M Boost | Germany's ProteinDistillery has stirred up the agri-foodtech scene with a €15 million seed round to launch Europe's first Prew:tein Competence Center. The company's innovative approach to biomass fermentation is set to revolu... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: ProteinDistillery brews up $16m, Rozana raises $22m for rural commerce in India | There’s been a lot of news brewing lately around fermentation, including a new raise by Germany’s ProteinDistillery. Over in India, Rozana, which runs an e-commerce/logistics platform for rural parts of the country, announced its own fundra... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | 2 million acres and counting: unpacking ADM’s regenerative agriculture progress report for North America | Food processing and commodities corporation Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has released the first report on its progress implementing regenerative agriculture.
In 2023, the company has signed up nearly 2 million acres of land in its supply ch... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | Brief: Grace Breeding trials shows 50% reduction in nitrogen application with biofertilizer, registers in Brazil | Grace Breeding’s biofertilizer reduces synthetic nitrogen use in corn production by 50%, according to the latest results from the Israel-based company’s ongoing field trials.
The ongoing field trials are taking place in Brazil, in collabora... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Dave Marston: Colorado is conflicted about cutting water use | By Dave Marston
In Colorado, farmers must enroll in a four-state program by March 1, if they want to get paid for fallowing their fields — perhaps the best option to plump up the Colorado River’s giant reservoirs, Mead and Powell.
Not every... |
| Feb 20, 2023 | State ag officials push for on-time farm bill to fund slew of programs | Wheat fields and rain clouds at the Marc Arnusch Farms in Keenesburg on June 19, 2020. Lance Cheung/USDA/Public domain
WASHINGTON – State agriculture officials from across the country sought this month to remind a new crop of lawmakers in C... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Cheeseburgers and steaks are about to get more expensive because there just aren't enough cows | The US cow population fell 3% last year while beef cows decreased to their lowest level since 1962, according to the Department of Agriculture.
That fall in supply is likely to drive up the price of food like burgers and steaks.
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| Oct 10, 2022 | How the Supreme Court animal welfare case could reshape the pork sector | A contentious case about the state of livestock confinement is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, with the potential to upend the way meat and egg producers conduct sales of their products between states.
The Supreme Court will hear ... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Why Does Sunshine In France Matter To Farmers In Iowa? | Nearly 42 percent of the country is in a continued drought this week, with several states considered ... [+] in extreme drought. Farmers and ranchers are now forced to take drastic steps as a result of the conditions. Getty Images |
| 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 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Why The California Furor Over Humanely Raised Pork Matters Everywhere | Sows lined up in crates. Humane Society of the U.S. |
| Mar 30, 2022 | 2022 is turning out to be a real shitshow | Connie Bowen is executive-in-residence at AgLaunch, and a board member and co-founder at The Yield Lab Institute, based in St Louis, US.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent thos... |
| 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 ar... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | $1 Billion USDA Program Will Fund Pilot Projects For The Development Of Climate-Smart Commodity Markets | No-till soybeans following corn - a practice that can lead to carbon sequestration NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service, USDA) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | How a Georgia farmer is ensuring a sustainable, safe space for Black residents in a developing 500-acre town | Georgia farmer Wayne Swanson detailed the sustainable farming plans he has in mind for developing land (pictured above) near Toomsboro, Georgia. Courtesy of Freedom Georgia Initiative
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| Dec 15, 2021 | American farmers want SA workers to be exempt from the US’ travel ban | (Getty Images)
South Africans have been banned from entering the United States in the wake of the Omicron coronavirus variant’s discovery at the end of November.
The latest travel ban comes less than a month after the first one, imposed in ... |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Bad Weather – Another Concern For A Stressed Global Supply Chain | Given the already overwhelmed supply chain systems, any extreme weather event—or even a weather ... [+] anomaly—could have significant impact further contributing to supply chain congestion. Getty Images |
| Apr 7, 2021 | What Does The Biden Presidency Mean For Investors In The Meat Industry? | Jeremy Coller Foundation, Chairman and CIO of Coller Capital, Founder of the FAIRR Initiative. |
| Feb 9, 2021 | A new White House signals new opportunities for agtech startups. Are we up for the challenge? | Editor’s note: Ponsi Trivisvavet is CEO at Inari, a seed genetics startup based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of AFN.
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| Jan 14, 2021 | Sweetgreen Has Launched A Salad Interpretation Of The Crispy Chicken Sandwich | Sweetgreen's new Crispy Chicken Salad is part of its new Crispy Collections menu, a digital-only ... [+] iteration of the Collections menu launched in September. Sweetgreen |
| Dec 28, 2020 | How Augmented Reality Will Affect These Four Industries In 2021 | 13 October 2020, Thuringia, Jena: Canan Gallitzschke observes an optical experimental set-up with AR ... [+] (augmented reality) glasses during the opening of the "Digital Teaching Labs" of the Max Planck School of Photonics. Here... |
| Sep 8, 2020 | How to spot opportunities and land funding in agriculture tech, the multibillion-dollar industry that's only becoming more crucial with population growth | Tortuga AgTech robots. Tortuga AgTech This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Conventional farming methods are unable to produce enough food to feed the world’s growing... |
| Aug 20, 2020 | It Always Seems To Be Just More Bad News For Farmers | When something bad happens, it is becoming more of the norm to just shrug ones shoulders with the murmur “2020.” Nowhere does it seem like additions to the rolodex of bad luck occur more this year than in the farming business. |
| Aug 12, 2020 | JBS Plans to Buy, Convert Lamb Processing Facility | By Hannah Packman, NFU Communications Director
Brazilian company JBS, the world's largest beef and pork processor, plans to buy the second largest lamb processing facility in the United States and use it to process beef instead, drawin... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | Beyond the Pandemic: Harnessing the Digital Revolution to Set Food Systems on a Better Course | How is it possible to have over-abundance on one hand and scarcity on the other?
This article argues it is vital to correct pervasive information asymmetries and transaction costs across a vast food system (Figure 1) to move toward a more i... |
| Aug 3, 2020 | HEALS Act Provides $20 Billion For Agriculture | The HEALS Act will allocate $20 billion to the USDA.Getty |
| May 4, 2020 | Friendly Fire: Ethanol Battles Oil As COVID Destroys Demand For Both | PALESTINE, IL - JULY 25: A field of dead corn sits next to the Lincolnland Agri-Energy ethanol ... [+] plant July 25, 2012 in Palestine, Illinois. This summer's extended drought, which has scorched corn and soybean crops across the Mid... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Three Ag Data Startups Offer Open Access to Data Amid Indefinite Government Shutdown | The government shutdown has left growers without access to important crop data published monthly by the USDA. The federal agency is responsible for publishing the monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, a compr... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | After A Wave of Agtech Acqui-hires, DTN-Spensa Deal Changes the Script | On April 2, DTN, a Minnesota-based digital insights company spanning multiple industries including agriculture and oil and gas, closed the acquisition of pest detection technology startup Spensa Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
DTN is a... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | How Big Data is Disrupting Agriculture from Biological Discovery to Farming Practices | Editor’s Note: Vonnie Estes is an agtech consultant with a particular focus on building biotech-focused startups. She has worked in business development roles at three of the big 6 — Monsanto, Syngenta, and DuPont — and is a known face in t... |
| May 23, 2016 | Ag Tech’s Third Wave — 1 Technology Hits Pay Dirt | HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) — Steve Hess may be the grandfather of nine, but when it comes to farming, he is a millennial at heart. In fact, Hess, his wife Phyllis and their son Marcus are adopting cutting-edge technology this sea... |
