Guest article: How extreme weather is shaping the future of coffee
January 14, 2025
As shifting weather patterns continue to wreak havoc on the global coffee market, adaptation strategies will be essential.
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GLP-1, GWP*, and the state of ag robotics: the top 10 guest posts on AgFunderNews in 2024
January 2, 2025
The most popular guest posts of 2024 covered GLP-1, regenerative agriculture, artificial intelligence, and more.
Guest article: Agtech poised for a rebound in 2025?
January 1, 2025
Despite some widespread challenges for agtech, Rabobank has identified multiple themes that remained resilient in 2024.
2024 was ‘a year of reckoning for agtech’
December 30, 2024
Arguably more important than fundraising is the need to build further trust with the farmers meant to be using agtech solutions.
Guest article: The real impact of tariffs on US produce prices
December 20, 2024
The past has shown that tariffs have often been more a tool for negotiation than anything else. Will 2025 be the same?
Guest article: When minimum isn’t viable – the case against MVP in foodtech and beyond
December 10, 2024
While the concept of minimal viable product (MVP) has proven its value in software, it doesn’t translate so well into food Unlike software, a food product cannot be “patched” once it hits shelves…
The Arla Bovaer case highlights a new frontier for agrifoodtech: combatting misinformation
December 9, 2024
In food and ag, the stakes are too high to ignore the power of misinformation.
Voltiris leverages spectral filtering to ‘transform the greenhouse into a solar field’ and cut costs for growers
December 3, 2024
Voltiris believes spectral filtering is the key to helping growers accelerate their energy transition and gain profitability in the process.
Kelp Blue unpacks the benefits of turning seaweed into biostimulants: ‘What we sell works better for a farmer’
November 22, 2024
Kelp Blue founder Daniel Hooft discusses the ups and downs of farming giant kelp and his journey from the oil industry to aquaculture.
Notes from the food-health nexus: how can we get consumer pull for nutrient density?
November 20, 2024
Lately, I’ve found myself in more and more conversations about the “food-health nexus”—the notion that what we eat is directly impacting our health, and while it excites me, consumer demand remains to be seen.
Sponsored post: The innovator’s dilemma: why agbioscience innovation must focus on the farmer first
November 5, 2024
“Those innovators that are directly linked to the farmer and to the customer are the ones that are going to win.”
Are agtech stakeholders actually collaborating? FIRA USA 2024 attendees weigh in
November 1, 2024
The industry is moving in the right direction, said various growers, startups, agribusinesses and investors polled by AgFunderNews.
Guest article: Pure sustainability isn’t enough. Why stewardship is better for farmers and the planet
October 31, 2024
Too often, conversations about ‘sustainability’ focus too narrowly on specific farming practices without acknowledging the many other considerations farmers juggle in a given season. Stewardship is about a more holistic approach.
Dark side of the genome: Inside Plantik’s mission to grow heat-tolerant crops through genome editing
October 22, 2024
The Plantik process grows high-heat-tolerant tomatoes in a fraction of the time it would take to do through traditional breeding.
Guest article: Farmers aren’t buying today’s ag robotics model. You shouldn’t either
October 11, 2024
Farm automation faces a trust and manufacturing barrier that investment money alone cannot overcome.
Enko Chem boss on biologicals: ‘We need as much innovation as possible to solve all the issues facing agriculture’
October 10, 2024
Jacqueline Heard discusses a new discovery capability for the Enko platform and what should happen next to progress crop protection.
The venture capital model is still suitable for agtech. Sort of
October 7, 2024
VCs need to think longer term and more realistically for future agtech investments, said panelists at World Agri-Tech London.
Guest article: EU regulators are more focused on reducing pesticides, not building a future where they aren’t required
October 4, 2024
Europe needs a roadmap for minimizing reliance on these chemicals altogether to build food security around the world.
Guest article: Technology is a regenerative ag tool, not a silver bullet, but we’re trapped in the belief that it can solve all our problems
September 27, 2024
“The use of AI to evaluate problems in the natural world seems to carry the potential of reducing or losing our capacity for critical analysis and ecosystems thinking.”
Australians look to World Agri-Tech to fill horticulture, grains investment pipeline
September 26, 2024
For more than 30 years, Australia’s rural R&D corporations have partnered with traditional research providers to drive innovation that solves industry challenges. Now, they’re also looking to the startup ecosystem for faster, bolder solutions that reach producers sooner.
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