Latest Food Headlines
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Yara And Lantmännen Sign First Commercial Agreement For Fossil Free Fertilizers
1/13/2022
Yara and Lantmännen are the first companies to sign a commercial agreement to bring fossil free fertilizers to market. Produced with renewable energy, these green fertilizers are crucial for decarbonizing the food chain and offering consumers more sustainable food choices.
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Biotalys And Olon Enter Into Long-Term Partnership For The Production Of Protein-Based Biocontrols
1/12/2022
Ghent and Milan Biotalys (Euronext - BTLS), an Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company protecting crops and food with protein-based biocontrol solutions, and Olon, a world-leading contract development and manufacturing organization, today announced a long-term strategic partnership for the manufacturing of Biotalys’ biocontrol products.
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BYU Researchers Sequenced The Quinoa Genome. Now They’re Introducing Hybrids Of The Crop To Developing Nations
1/11/2022
As soils across the world become less fertile and more desert-like due to climate change, it’s getting harder for farmers, especially those in developing nations, to grow basic life-preserving crops such as corn, wheat and rice.
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USDA Offers Expanded Conservation Program Opportunities To Support Climate Smart Agriculture In 2022
1/10/2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is announcing several new and expanded opportunities for climate smart agriculture in 2022.
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May River Capital Acquires Cablevey Conveyors
1/10/2022
May River Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on lower middle market industrial growth companies, announced today that it has acquired Cablevey Conveyors, a global manufacturer of tubular drag conveyor systems based in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
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NPEC: Working On The Crops Of The Future
1/10/2022
From crops that give a high yield to plants that are resistant to drought, salinisation, diseases and other consequences of climate change. Researchers from Agro Food Robotics at Wageningen University & Research are conducting groundbreaking, multidisciplinary research on these topics, amongst others in the recently opened Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Center (NPEC), a high-tech facility for targeted breeding and rapid screening of crops.
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Berkeley Lights And Aanika Biosciences Announce Partnership To Improve Food Safety By Commercializing Antimicrobial Peptides Through Proprietary High-Throughput, Functional Screening Service
1/10/2022
Berkeley Lights, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, and Aanika Biosciences, a growing biotech start-up using edible microbial tags to improve food safety, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable faster identification of outbreak sources, reduce incidents of fresh produce contamination and minimize the impact of food borne illness related recalls.
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New Method, More Accurate Crop Quality Detection
1/7/2022
Based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and data fusion technology, researchers proposed a novel analytical method, through which the accuracy of the spectrometric method for detecting the quality of agricultural products.
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Reducing Food Waste To Increase Access To Affordable Foods
1/5/2022
About a third of the world’s food supply never gets eaten. That means the water, labor, energy, and fertilizer that went into growing, processing, and distributing the food is wasted.
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Smithfield Foods Commits To Reduce Food Loss And Waste 50% By 2030
1/5/2022
Smithfield Foods, Inc. today announced a new goal to halve overall food loss and waste in its U.S. company-owned operations by 2030. The new commitment aligns with various resource conservation and waste reduction initiatives the company has underway in its operations, including efforts to reduce overall waste sent to landfills by 75% and achieve zero-waste-to-landfill certification at three-quarters of its U.S. facilities by 2025.