Latest Food Headlines
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Partnerships Powering AI Advances In Agriculture
12/8/2025
CGIAR’s global partner network has worked alongside rural communities for over five decades, accumulating unparalleled data, experience and knowledge to deliver technologies that can help tackle today’s agricultural challenges.
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AvironiX Unveils AviSpray-10c, A Backpack-Sized Agricultural Spraying Drone For India's Precision Farming Sector
12/8/2025
AvironiX Drones, a Chennai-based deep-tech drone company focused on precision farming and defence technologies, today announced the launch of its latest agricultural innovation, the AviSpray-10c, a compact, backpack-sized spraying drone 53% smaller than the current generation, designed to significantly reduce the cost, operational complexity, and manpower requirements of drone-based crop spraying in India.
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Bioleum Corporation Acquires Hexas Biomass Inc
12/8/2025
Comstock Inc. (NYSE American: LODE, the “Company”) today announced that one of its strategic investees, Bioleum Corporation (“Bioleum”), acquired Hexas Biomass Inc. (“Hexas”), a global leader in the development and deployment of purpose grown energy crops and biomaterials, including all of its intellectual properties and certain liabilities, in exchange for a purchase price of approximately $6.5 million comprised of approximately $3.5 million paid with 146,637 shares of Bioleum common stock at $24 per share, $500,000 in five annual cash payments of $100,000 each, commencing at closing, and $2.5 million of convertible debt, redeemable with cash payments payable from 5% of Hexas’ aggregate revenues or convertible into Bioleum common stock, also at a conversion price of $24 per share.
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Maizex Seeds Invests In The Future Of Seed Corn Production In Canada
12/8/2025
Maizex Seeds, the seed division of Sollio Agriculture, announces the groundbreaking of a major $8.8 million investment in a new seed corn processing and packaging plant at their Blenheim, Ontario, facility.
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Engineering The Next Superfood: BTI Unlocks Goldenberry's Large-Scale Farming Potential
12/5/2025
Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly popular in U.S. grocery stores.
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CABI Partners With The African Academy Of Sciences To Support Africa's Agricultural Transformation
12/4/2025
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will see CABI work together with The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) on agricultural science, food security and sustainable development across Africa.
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Mars Investing $20M In Sustainable Rice Sourcing
12/4/2025
Today, Mars is announcing a $20M (USD) investment in sustainable rice sourcing over the decade (2020–2030) through its new Raising Rice Right platform, as climate change places unprecedented pressures on rice farming communities around the world.
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Eyes For An Agricultural Robot: AI System Identifies Weeds In Apple Orchards
12/4/2025
Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can reduce fruit yields.
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Syngenta Announces EPA Registration Of New Insecticide Active Ingredient: PLINAZOLIN Technology
12/4/2025
Syngenta announced today that its latest insect control tool, PLINAZOLIN technology, has received registration from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and is available for use, subject to state approvals.
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Agroz Inc. Announces Launch Of Agroz Robotics With UBTECH To Integrate AI-Robotics Technology Into Farm Operating System
12/3/2025
Agroz Inc. (NASDAQ: AGRZ) ("Agroz," the "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), an innovative, fully vertically integrated agricultural technology company specializing in AI-powered Controlled Environment Agriculture ("CEA") vertical farms, today announced the launch of Agroz Robotics in collaboration with UBTECH Robotics (HKEX: 09880.HK) ("UBTECH"), a global leader in humanoid robotics.