Antibiotic and methane rules fuel animal feed innovation

Antibiotic and methane rules fuel animal feed innovation Chart of the Week – Antibiotic and methane rules fuel animal feed innovation The use of sustainable livestock feed additives is growing, driven by advances in animal nutrition science, and growing regulatory scrutiny, for example around antibiotic use in agriculture, and methane emissions. We summarise key relevant […]

Precision Fermentation Nears Milk Protein Disruption

Precision Fermentation Nears Milk Protein Disruption Graphic of the Week – Precision Fermentation Nears Milk Protein Disruption Precision fermentation may be poised to disrupt key agri-food markets, extending successes in high-end uses for human medicine, by using microbes to create animal-free proteins, where precision fermented (PF) milk has the largest near-term potential. New Food Finance […]

Bacterial Pesticides: Beating the Incumbents

Bacterial Pesticides: Beating the Incumbents Graphic of the Week – Bacterial Pesticides: Beating the Incumbents Microbe-based pesticides have sustainability advantages over chemicals: they may be less toxic, target pests more specifically, break down quickly and harmlessly, and they may be less likely to trigger pest resistance. However, questions remain over their relative efficacy and price […]

Spectroscopy: Lighting up Agri-Food Start-Ups

Spectroscopy: Lighting up Agri-Food Start-Ups Graphic of the Week – Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024 Spectroscopy technology is seizing the imagination of agri-food start-ups, in new applications from precision ag measurement of soil nutrients, biology and carbon, to foodtech applications, verifying crop ripeness or food quality. Complex data interpretation, plus high upfront costs, has historically […]

Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024

Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024 Chart of the Week – Five Robo-Tractor Fund-Raisings in 2024 Robotic tractors are emerging as a commercial proposition, especially in the context of farms with large, flat fields, where ease of use coupled with labour and fuel savings are starting to build an economic case. Challenges include farms of unusual […]

Startups set to benefit from regen ag asset management

Startups set to benefit from regen ag asset management Chart of the Week – Startups set to benefit from regen ag asset management Three deals in the past month show how regen ag is emerging as a “real asset” class, within farmland, drawing asset managers expecting both food and environmental market income streams, as well […]

Where $9bln has gone missing in 2024

Where $9bln has gone missing in 2024 Chart of the Week – Where $9bln has gone missing in 2024 The agri-food greentech sector has seen a savage year for company-level fund-raisings, in the first three quarters this year, down 73%, compared to the same period in 2023, New Food Finance data show. Our chart of […]

UK incentives halve payback periods for robotic sprayers

UK incentives halve payback periods for robotic sprayers Chart of the Week – UK incentives halve payback periods for robotic sprayers New UK incentives almost halve the payback period on more environmentally friendly, high-tech sprayers, in a promising example of how the country’s imminent, farm subsidy overhaul will boost green technologies, New Food Finance analysis […]

Precision ag and IPM lead agri-food start-up survivors

Precision ag and IPM lead agri-food start-up survivors Chart of the Week – Precision ag and IPM lead agri-food start-up survivors Precision ag and integrated pest management companies are among the great survivors of a brutal VC funding environment, New Food Finance data show, after including some of the smallest companies, which often fade silently […]

European Agri-Chemical Green Investment Under Threat

European Agri-Chemical Green Investment Under Threat Chart of the Week – European Agri-Chemical Green Investment Under Threat Investment by Europe’s biggest agri-chemical companies in “green transition” start-ups outperformed the global space through 2023, but has since followed a more general crash downwards in 2024 to date. The four big European agri-chemical companies, Bayer, BASF, Yara […]