Food & Agriculture

East Asia bets on biotech as downstream innovation lags in 40% agrifoodtech funding plunge

Like most regions of the world, East Asia’s agrifoodtech industry suffered in 2024, posting a significant 40% year-over-year decline in funding, its lowest point...

Minnesota farmers getting the planting itch

Conditions are nearly fit to begin planting across much of southern Minnesota. Dan Glessing farms west of the Twin Cities near Waverly. “We’re getting...

ZimmComm Announces Travel Retirement

After over 20 years of hitting the “agriblogging” highway, ZimmComm principals Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman are retiring from business travel at the end of...

The Week in AgriFoodTech: First Water nets $43m, INTAKE raises $9.2m Series C, AgroStar bags $6.7m

This week, salmon-farming startup First Water raised $43 million, while precision fermentation company INTAKE closed a $9.2million Series C deal, and Accel India lead...

Precision Ag News 4/10

The Conservation Technology Information Center will release the results of the 8th National Cover Crop Survey Report on April 15, noon CT, during a...

The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 7

The Feed newsletter highlights recent legal developments affecting agriculture, with issues released twice a month. Click below to sign up for... Source: https://nationalaglawcenter.org/the-feed-vol-3-issue-7/

FARMERS SPEAK: What we heard from you on Canada’s 2025 federal election and what matters for Canadian agriculture

Canadians are weeks away from choosing their next federal government and Glacier FarmMedia wants to know what farmers want to see on the electoral...

Humbird was ‘spectacularly wrong’ on cultivated meat economics says report as Vow predicts it will soon be ‘unit margin positive’

In 2021, chemical engineer and engineering consultant Dave Humbird PhD published a widely-publicized techno-economic analysis (TEA) concluding that cultivated meat faced intractable challenges at food scale....

Congress Seeks to Strengthen Oversight: Proposed Amendments to AFIDA

by NALC Staff Over the past few years, federal and state lawmakers have become increasingly concerned about foreign investments in U.S.... Source: https://nationalaglawcenter.org/congress-seeks-to-strengthen-oversight-proposed-amendments-to-afida/

Beige Living Room Ideas: Cozy, Calm, and Completely Captivating

Have you ever walked into a living room and instantly felt at peace like time slowed down, your breath got deeper, and all the...

🎥 Synthesis Capital: ‘We avoided the plant-based CPG blood bath’

It’s fair to say that investor sentiment in foodtech has soured somewhat in recent years, but specialist investors are in it for the long...

Veridi pairs nematodes with machine learning to tackle Europe’s $55bn soil biodiversity problem

Nematode communities have been trusted indicators of soil health for decades, but the process of identifying types and numbers in any given soil sample...

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