Yara Growth Ventures has joined the second close of Stenon's Series B. The German startup's portable FarmLab measures plant-available nitrogen in the field and turns it into fertilizer advice.
AgrotechA rice and mung bean grower in Thailand's Nakhon Sawan province trialled a New Holland tractor and mulcher in the 2026 harvest to chop rice straw and keep it in the field, an alternative to the open burning that sends about 4.8 million tons of straw up in smoke in central Thailand each year.
CropsIntensive farming, climate change and depleted soils are raising the risk that food grains carry fewer nutrients, a BSS special report says, leaving people short of zinc, iron and protein even when they eat enough.
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.
CropsDeep Science Ventures says declines of roughly 20-50% in several nutrients have been recorded in cereals and vegetables, and models a UK scenario in which GLP-1 drugs and falling nutrient density push five million adults below key thresholds.
OrganicA North Carolina study found that enzyme activity, microbial biomass and microbial necromass can act as early proxies for soil carbon under cover crops and reduced tillage, years before carbon itself can be measured.
OrganicCow dung, straw, water hyacinth and leaves can be turned into vermicompost on a simple raised bed, but fresh dung, standing water and direct sun can kill the worms.
CropsCover crops cost $42 to $120 an acre to establish, but South Dakota research found grazing them returned $17.23 an acre in the first year and $43.61 in the second, and EQIP can cover up to 75 percent of costs.
OrganicSaju Mondol of Rajarhat, Kurigram, has made vermicompost with red worms for four years for his own fields; he expects about 12 maunds this year and wants training and support to sell it.
AgrotechThe Swiss climate-tech start-up turns crop residues into biochar in small reactors near where they are produced and returns it to soils, and will use the money to make its system a repeatable hardware and software product.
A 50 kg bag of the state-owned sugar company's Sonar Dana organic fertiliser costs Tk 900, while farmers are paying Tk 2,500 to 3,000 for a bag of chemical fertiliser.
CropsExecutives from IKEA, Royal Canin and Yara told a forum in Beijing that regenerative agriculture has proved itself in pilots, but no one has settled who carries the cost and risk of scaling it up.
CropsThe US Department of Agriculture is raising assistance under its Regenerative Pilot Program from $700 million to $1 billion in fiscal 2027 and making it easier for farmers to qualify.
