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Whole Foods widens the road to regenerative certification with SCI standard

The Soil Climate Initiative is the fifth regenerative agriculture certification to land on the shelves of Whole Foods.

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Corporates

The Bland Company raises $2.7m to functionalize plant proteins from ag side streams

The Bland Company can transform ag side streams into highly functional proteins that can replace eggs without requiring novel equipment, claims cofounder Yash Khandelwal.

Alternative protein

EMEA

Whole Foods widens the road to regenerative certification with SCI standard

The Bland Company raises $2.7m to functionalize plant proteins from ag side streams

PFerrinX tunes iron saturation for precision-fermented lactoferrin, aims to be ‘largest and lowest cost producer’

Cell ag ‘picks & shovels’ pioneer IntegriCulture turns a profit, but cautions that ‘As long as cell ag remains so capital-intensive, it will be difficult to take off’

Agtech isn’t dead—just sobering up, says Syngenta Group Ventures MD: ‘Now is the time to deploy capital’

Guest article: Food production is the foundation of healthy diets. The system has not yet caught up

Polybee raises $4.3m to automate yield forecasting and pollination with ‘physical AI agents’

CropX and the case for consolidation in agtech: ‘We are an M&A machine’

Terradot acquires Eion to build global enhanced rock weathering carbon removal platform

AgriFood Signals: UAE’s Kitopi nabs $50m, new Defra investments in UK ag, Carbon Robotics launches AI model

Brilliant Harvest raises $4m to solve ag equipment’s service bottleneck with AI

David Protein scores initial victory in antitrust case over EPG fat replacer; plaintiffs say battle isn’t over

Azaneo bets electroportation can outpace herbicides on weed control

Drone-Hand reshapes livestock management from the air with AI-powered precision

DeepSight takes augmented reality to the factory floor

Guest article: What CES really told us about robotics in the produce sector

Peter McGuinness stepping down as CEO at Impossible Foods

Ripelocker bets on container-scale vacuum storage to unlock global produce markets

AgriFood Signals: Syngenta inks clean energy deal, SemCap closes $125m food fund, McDonald’s nixes veggie items

Guest article: How the state’s ‘visible hand’ is driving China’s new agrifood investment playbook

Revolution Drones and Exedy Drones target US ag spray drone market as FCC rewrites the rules

Behind the scenes of Bayer’s strawberry strategy

Made in America: FCC decision sparks scramble to localize ag spray drone production

Planetary explores collaboration to unlock low-cost mycoprotein production in India

As ‘fibermaxxing’ gains traction, one.bio launches invisible oat fiber: ‘We could add 50g and you still wouldn’t notice it’

🎥 A 10-page reset? Nutrition experts unpack the new US dietary guidelines

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