Elaine Watson
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Farmers sound alarm on anti-seed oil rhetoric and escalating trade tensions
Efforts to weaken customer self-confidence in seed oils– which Trump cupboard choice RFK Jr claims are “poisoning” Americans– can seriously harm United Stat…
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Bags… from bacteria? Modern Synthesis raises $5.5m to expand biomaterials platform
[Disclosure: AgFunder—the parent company of AgFunderNews—is an investor in Modern Synthesis.] Modern Synthesis—a London-based startup developing biomaterials for high-end fashion b…
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Exclusive: Vanilla Vida celebrates “world’s first’ large-scale indoor vanilla harvest
Vanilla Vida— an Israeli start-up dealing with the huge inequality in between supply and need in the all-natural vanilla market– has actually introduced its very first …
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CH4 Global begins production at first commercial-scale Asparagopsis growing facility
[Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in CH4 Global.] CH4 Global, a startup dedicated to cutting livestock methane emissions with feed supplements from …
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Exclusive: BIOMILQ files for bankruptcy amid IP dispute that made it ‘uninvestable and unacquirable’
BIOMILQ— a start-up culturing mammary cells to create bioactives discovered in breastmilk– has actually declared insolvency amidst a lengthy IP disagreement with the ex…
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Exclusive: Perfect Day buries legal hatchet with co-manufacturer; searches for new CEO
The prominent legal dispute in between animal-free dairy products leader Perfect Day and co-manufacturer Olon mores than, with court documents revealing that the lawsuits has actua…
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Lever VC announces $50m first close of agrifoodtech Fund II
Lever VC has actually introduced the very first close of its Fund II with a first $50 million for early-stage financial investments in agrifoodtech start-ups. The fund– which…
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Exclusive: Vanilla Vida celebrates “world’s first’ large-scale indoor vanilla harvest
Vanilla Vida – an Israeli startup addressing the vast mismatch between supply and demand in the natural vanilla market – has announced its first scaled harvest of vanilla plants gr…
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Pictor Biotech creates “vertically integrated synthetic biology and biomanufacturing powerhouse”
Pictor Biotech, which was developed last autumn by previous Novozymes director Peter Rosholm to acquire the assets of bankrupt biomanufacturing startups Solar Biotech, has actually…
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USDA nominee promises financial aid to farmers to offset “devastating” impact of a trade war
The United States Division of Farming (USDA) will certainly supply financial assistance to United States farmers and breeders adversely influenced by a “damaging” profe…
