Far Eastern Agriculture

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Biotechnology company, Qi Biodesign recently announced the completion of its million dollar Series A funding round to pioneer next-gen genome editing technologies The company has raised a total of US$75mn across its Seed, Series Pre-A , and Series A stages.

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Agwired

JUNE 26, 2024

AMVAC® , an American Vanguard® Company, announces the promotion of Rick Rice to business unit leader, application technologies. Under Rice’s leadership, AMVAC’s ATBU will continue its commitment to positioning the company’s innovative precision ag technologies as tailored solutions to address evolving market demands. He holds a B.S.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Klein focus on four major areas of change: the commodification of food production, new food technologies, new culinary identities, and migration. Today, that number is less than 1 percent.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 21, 2024

The authors of book “ Moving Crops and the Scales of History ” have been awarded the Edelstein Prize 2024 for their work to “redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop.” Here’s one.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason.

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Agritech NZ

JUNE 27, 2023

By enabling genetic technologies in a way that respects people, place and planet, New Zealand can demonstrate true leadership in how we tackle the pressing challenges of our time, AgriTechNZ chief executive Brendan O’Connell says. Many of these tools are just improved forms of standard practice that enable faster progress. “By

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The Farmers Daughter USA

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The lawsuit, brought by anti-bioengineering activists (pretending to be worried about family farms), reinstates a regulatory framework in place since 1986, while the technology was only in its infancy and not yet even commercially available. Department of Agriculture through its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Innovation and Technological Mismatch: Experimental Evidence from Improved Crop Seeds. Breeding for Na+ exclusion to improve salinity tolerance in crops has compromised their drought tolerance, but both tolerances are down to more gene copies in key families when comparing species.

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Agwired

JUNE 12, 2024

Annette Kleiser, CEO of Dalan Animal Health, as the recipient of the George Washington Carver Award and Sylvia Wulf, president and CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, as the recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Award. Nemasphere is the first and only biotechnology trait for SCN, the number one yield-robbing pest in soybeans in the United States.

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Agwired

JULY 25, 2023

“Iowa is such a hub for ag technology,” said Melissa Moyer, Economic Development Coordination Manager. “Whether it’s bioscience, whether it’s biotechnology, whether it’s molecular…we have technology to feed and fuel the world and there’s no bveretter place.”

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Agwired

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ASTA FCSC Majors Panel 56:02 Boeck sees global demand, sustainability, and technology as the major issues driving the industry right now. “With gene editing on the horizon and that being able to complement biotechnology as a way to drive innovation and drive yields higher for farmers, that’s a big part of it,” he said.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 20, 2023

NASDA and NASAHO share common interests in animal agriculture including foreign and emerging animal diseases, animal biotechnology, antimicrobial resistance and rural veterinary shortages. Learn more about careers in agriculture at nasda.org/WorkInAg.

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Agwired

AUGUST 1, 2024

Keynote speaker Wendy Srnic, Vice President of Biotechnology for Corteva Agriscience, provided the group with a good working knowledge of what gene editing is, and what it is not, so they can be informed as the technology is more widely adopted. All women working in the agricultural technology space are welcome to join.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Leveraging Corteva s global leadership in agricultural innovation along with Gates Ag One s mission to accelerate the most promising agricultural innovations into the hands of smallholder farmers, the collaboration aims to lead the development of novel seed technologies, to boost sustainable crop productivity while building climate resilience.

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Agwired

JUNE 5, 2024

With nearly three decades of excellence in biotechnology and algae innovation, LaMont will oversee algae and lab operations, leading a diverse team of scientists and engineering staff on the Operations team. Soil health company MyLand announces that Mike LaMont has joined the company as Senior Director, Algae Operations & Innovation.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. A Michigan State University researcher has received a $394,600 grant from the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bayer and Pairwise, a ag and food company that offers gene-editing for the U.S. market, have announced a five year deal to further develop short-stature corn. This deal will focus on gene-edited, short-stature corn for future use in Bayer’s Preceon Smart Corn System. Short-stature corn – with a targeted height of 30 to 40 percent. Read More

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“The team of talented biotechnology experts at Switch have assembled from around the world to develop an innovative approach that dramatically improves the performance and cost-effectiveness of biofertilizers, tackling a significant climate challenge.”

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NASDA

MARCH 8, 2024

These policies demonize the technological advancements we have made in agriculture through improved chemistry and biotechnology. These policies have already and will continue to threaten our ability to produce sufficient food and fiber to support the world population, which just recently surpassed 8 billion people.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

MARCH 20, 2024

German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, Bayer recently announced the launch of an expert GenAI system to benefit farmers and up-level agronomists in their daily work By utilising proprietary agronomic data, the company has been able to train a large language model (LLM).

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

a global plant biotechnology company specializing in nutrient use efficiency, plant innate immunity and plant physiology. At Custom Agronomics, we use the highest quality materials to formulate technologies that are truly unique. Snipes most recently served as CEO of Plant Response Inc.,

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World Agri-Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“The team of talented biotechnology experts at Switch have assembled from around the world to develop an innovative approach that dramatically improves the performance and cost-effectiveness of biofertilizers, tackling a significant climate challenge.”

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition to Fast Company, Dalan has also been awarded the animal health innovator recognition by International Zendal Awards , which celebrates and financially awards innovative biotechnology solutions, as well as recent inclusion on TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 in the sustainability category for the promise the vaccine holds for both protecting (..)

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In his later years, Falcon continued to advocate for technological innovation spanning land, water, and energy resources, as well as increased funding for future research. We certainly did not see eye to eye on topics such as organic farming, the use of biotechnology, and corporate influence over the food system.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. This extreme lack of transparency precludes the type of informed, scientific debate that we should be having about this new technology.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While farm tech may conjure images of GPS-driven tractors, robot harvesters, and biotechnology, a new competition in California is calling on innovators to refocus their attention away from scaling up Industrial Ag and towards empowering small farms.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

The benefit of this technology is that it’s not location-specific; you can run it wherever you want,” says Heiko Rischer, principal scientist and head of plant biotechnology at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He notes that the closed system gives growers control over water purity and nutrients.

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Agwired

JUNE 27, 2024

A new article researched and co-authored by American Soybean Association staff explores how farmers can potentially benefit from new biotechnology innovations. Farmers will benefit from new technologies that will help them produce more while restoring nature through innovations that power regenerative agriculture.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The chair of the House of Commons’ agriculture committee has introduced a private member’s bill aimed at speeding up regulatory approvals of new seed genetics, feed products, and crop protection products for Canadian farmers. Kody Blois, Liberal MP from Nova Scotia, tabled Bill C-359 — An Act to amend the Feeds Act, the Seeds Act.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. That’s long for research scientists, or a plant technology innovator. It’s also about a category of technology that could find its way into the world,” he said. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

Canada has finally decided on how crop varieties developed with gene-editing technology will be handled in the registration and approval process. Announced last week, crops developed using the technique will not be considered a GMO or “novel” and therefore will have a more streamlined path to approval.

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Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2025

Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC and Gowan SeedTech LLC announced they have entered into a sale agreement with Gowan acquiring Syngentas FarMore Technology Vegetable Seed Treatment Platform in the United States. Traitology, a leading U.S.-based The Nebraska Ag Expo hosted its third Innovation After Hours event last month.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Natural Products Canada introduces its pick of best-in-class Canadian agtech start-ups Aplantex, Biosun, Index Biosystems, Lucent Biosciences, Soligenic Technologies, Bionorth Solutions, Biopolynet and Nature Recombined Solutions.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

New research by scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Cornell University provides a key enabling technology to produce obligate outcrossing in soybean. PheNode is an advanced, scalable environmental sensor platform designed to empower users with customizable data collection and the rapid integration of new technologies.

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Agwired

MAY 16, 2024

In response to President Biden’s Executive Order 14081, “Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These forward-thinking companies bring cutting-edge expertise in biotechnology and agriculture, bolstering RFAs mission to advance sustainable biofuels and promote innovation. The Renewable Fuels Association is proud to announce the addition of two innovative leaders, Edeniq, Inc. and incite.ag , to its growing network of associate members.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 8, 2024

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s third and final ruling announced Friday on gene-editing for crop variety development clears the path for this precise, cost-effective plant breeding tool to be used in Canada. Does this mean farmers will have access to new drought-resistant or nitrogen-efficient varieties for next year?

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