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AgrotechBlocked DJI shipments cut new US spray drone sales from 8,950 to 3,711 last year, and a new FCC proposal could bar existing foreign models that spray pesticides, the American Spray Drone Coalition says.
OrganicFirst-year results from the Regenerative Organic Alliance and food-testing firm Edacious found 46 certified products from 13 brands measured better than USDA reference values on several nutrients, including a much lower omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in meat.
AgribusinessKenya's Twiga, once the flagship of African agrifoodtech, has gone into administration, and investors say the sector now needs patient capital and businesses that live on cash flow.
India-based Myca turns the WhatsApp messages, calls and photos of agribusiness field staff into structured data and lets AI agents handle supervisors' follow-up work; it has raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding.
AgrotechFrench startup Verley, which makes the milk protein beta-lactoglobulin by precision fermentation, is moving to 200,000-litre tanks at a co-manufacturer and plans commercial sales next year.
AgrotechThe Israeli startup's long, bendy arms snake past branches, cut the fruit stem and let the fruit roll through the hollow arm into the grower's own bin, with customer pilots planned from January 2027.
AgrotechThe UK start-up maps how pathogen proteins switch off plant immune receptors, then designs small DNA edits that seed companies can use to let potato, tomato, soy, corn and spinach defend themselves without chemicals.
AgribusinessAt the AgRI 2040 conference in Brussels, EU officials and farmers said agricultural research must reach farms faster, with less red tape, more partnerships and stronger demand for new products.
AgrotechIceland's Atmonia makes ammonia from nitrogen and water in one electrochemical step, without producing hydrogen first, and aims for a container unit making about 150 tons a year on farms.
AgrotechThe UK startup's autonomous robots treat strawberry crops with UV-C light instead of fungicide sprays, and it now wants 300 of them deployed in 2027 as growers buy the machines outright.
LivestockThe Boston start-up is developing a vaccine that trains a cow's immune system to curb the rumen microbes that make methane, and aims to sell its first product in New Zealand from 2028.
AgrotechFrance-based Plantik Biosciences and Hudson River Biotechnology are combining machine-learning trait discovery with transgene-free genome editing to build a heat-tolerance trait that any strawberry breeder can license.
AgribusinessInterviews with 15 businesses that grow food on salt-affected land, from halophyte farms to salt-tolerant seed and desalination firms, find weak demand rather than money holding the sector back.
