Food & Agriculture

Aerobic gas fermentation: the final frontier in novel fats?

A flurry of startups has sprung up in recent years using fermentation to coax microbes to produce more sustainable, functional, or healthier alternatives to...

2 Sides of the Great Debate: Organic Hydroponics

Organic hydroponics’ bona fides have been questioned since the passage of the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) in 1990. For both producers and consumers,...

The Week in AgriFoodTech: ‘Carbon ratings’ agency BeZero Carbon raises $32m, alt-cheese maker Willicroft shuts down

Some of the biggest agrifoodtech deals of the week include London-based BeZero Carbon closing a $32 million Series C round to expand global carbon...

Precision Ag News 1/23

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the appointment of 36 members to serve on the newly formed Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and...

Meet a Grower: Haury Farms

Meet the Haury Family Meet the multi-generational citrus growers behind Homegrown Organic Farms’ pummelos, mandarins, and pomegranates! Jim Haury started farming his father Edgar Haury’s...

Dr. Jonathan Wendel Receives Cotton Genetics Research Award

Dr. Jonathan Wendel, Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University was announced as the 2024 Cotton Genetics Research Award recipient last week during the 2025...

Perception Is Not Reality: The 20 ‘Cons’ (that aren’t) of Regenerative Ag

Perception Is Not Reality: The 20 ‘Cons’ (that aren’t) of Regenerative Ag Kent Solberg, UA Consultant After a recent Understanding Ag, LLC event, someone commented about...

Pictor Biotech creates “vertically integrated synthetic biology and biomanufacturing powerhouse”

Pictor Biotech, which was created last fall by former Novozymes exec Peter Rosholm to acquire the assets of bankrupt biomanufacturing startups Solar Biotech,...

Salford wins two AE50 engineering awards

The Salford Group won two AE50 awards for a new precision cultivator and a high capacity boom fertilizer applicator. The AE50 awards are from the...

Bad-Actor Certifiers Acting as Agribusiness Front Groups/Lobbyists

Soli Organics: A major hydroponic operation certified by CCOF Crushing Family-Scale Organic Farmers Hi folks, OrganicEye is supporting farmers who are switching certifiers after finding out that...

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