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Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

World Agri-Tech

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. 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.

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Switch Bioworks Raises $17M in Series Seed Financing

World Agri-Tech

Nitrogen fertilizer is an expensive yet essential crop nutrient, supporting the food supply of half the world’s population. 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.

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Precision Ag News 10/23

Agwired

USDA, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a new web-based tool on the Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation for companies that develop microbial biotechnology products. sales of Ag tractors decreased 19.2 Sales of combines also fell during the month, dropping 40.7

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Coalition Letter on President’s Export Council’s Agricultural Trade Proposal

NASDA

More than twice as many Americans are manufacturing agricultural products as are manufacturing cars and trucks, and millions of food scientists, production workers, logistics experts, truck drivers, and engineers work in more than 200,000 food manufacturing, processing, and storage facilities. While our two million U.S.

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Custom Agronomics Appoints New CEO

Agwired

a global plant biotechnology company specializing in nutrient use efficiency, plant innate immunity and plant physiology. is a leading formulator and manufacturer of liquid nutrients, specialty chemistries, nitrogen stabilizers, and high-performance wetting agents and surfactants.

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

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. In contrast, today’s dominant players genetically engineer and mass produce seed alongside complementary inputs including fertilizers and pesticides. Diverse plants and manure must take their place. Source: Philip H.

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