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Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

World Agri-Tech

Current manufacturing is largely based on fossil fuels and leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions and many damaging environmental consequences such as fertilizer run-off and eutrophication. Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population.

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Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

World Agri-Tech

Current manufacturing is largely based on fossil fuels and leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions and many damaging environmental consequences such as fertilizer run-off and eutrophication. Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population.

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Industry Ag News 3/29

Agwired

million acres of corn in 2024, down 5% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). million acres in 2024, up 3% from last year. Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 90.0 Soybean growers intend to plant 86.5

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

AMPI) Association of Equipment Manufacturers Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Austin Chapter 10 IWLA BASF Corporation Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) Georgia Wildlife Federation Ginkgo Bioworks Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council , Inc.

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Industry Ag News 9/22

Agwired

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a number of roles, including Branch Chief of APHIS Biotechnology Regulatory Services. Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Representatives Tracey Mann (R-Kan.), Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) million to $370.9

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The Corporate Consolidation of Seed Breeding Over the past decades, we have seen a hyper consolidation of the seed market with over 50% of seed sales coming from companies that are owned by four large biotechnology corporations. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48 Source: Philip H.

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Inside Bayer’s State-by-State Efforts to Stop Pesticide Lawsuits

Civil Eats

If passed, the legislation could prevent individuals who use pesticides from suing manufacturers based on the argument that the manufacturer should have warned them the products could cause cancer or another illness. Harris represents Soda Springs, where Bayer operates a 540-acre processing plant to manufacture glyphosate.

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