Latest Food Headlines

  1. Friendly Fungus Could Help Protect Wheat From Disease 10/9/2026

    A naturally occurring fungus found inside wheat seeds could help protect one of the world's most important food crops from one of its most damaging diseases, researchers say.

  2. Harnessing AI To Feed The Future 10/9/2026

    With artificial intelligence adoption rising on farms in the United States and beyond, the AgTech360 podcast is sharing insights from four leading AI-in-agriculture experts about what’s needed to ensure the technology can strengthen farmers’ bottom lines and their ability to feed a fast-growing world.

  3. Kickstarting Mid-Atlantic Kernza 10/9/2026

    The University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Newark Farm hosts a smorgasbord of crops Alexandra Huddell studies: a couple plots of corn, an alfalfa plot and one unplanted plot.

  4. Pairwise Expands Fulcrum® Network With Rainbow Crops Licensing Agreement 10/8/2026

    Pairwise and Rainbow Crops today announced a licensing agreement granting Rainbow Crops access to Pairwise's Fulcrum® plant gene editing platform.

  5. New Research Aims To Protect UK Crops From Diseases Spreading Across Europe 10/7/2026

    Scientists are launching a major new research project to help protect UK food security from bacterial plant diseases that are spreading across parts of continental Europe.

  6. BASF | Nunhems Expands Lettuce Breeding Capabilities With New Automated Greenhouse In 's-Gravenzande 10/6/2026

    BASF's vegetable seeds business, operating under the Nunhems brand, has completed a new automated greenhouse facility in ’s-Gravenzande.

  7. Sorghum May Help European Agriculture Face Climate Change 10/6/2026

    Research by INRAE and AgroParisTech suggests that global warming could have an overall positive effect on sorghum yields in Europe.

  8. Soilytix Launches AI Models To Find New Crop-Protection Candidates In Soil DNA 10/6/2026

    Soilytix today released LOAM, a family of genomic AI models trained on long-read environmental genomes, alongside a preprint evaluating their biological performance.

  9. Funding For Leiden Researchers Working On Projects Involving Biochemical Substances 10/6/2026

    From sustainable crop protection using micro-organisms to energy-efficient enzymes from residual streams: five projects involving Leiden researchers are receiving funding from NWO and co-funders.

  10. Enko Identifies Novel Fungicide And Insecticide Modes Of Action Using ENKOMPASS 10/6/2026

    Enko Chem, Inc. today announced that it has utilized its ENKOMPASS platform to rapidly and cost-effectively identify novel modes of action (MOAs) for fungicides and insecticides.