Latest Food Headlines

  1. Pivot Bio Expands Weatherproof Nitrogen Portfolio With New Dry Planter Box Treatments For Corn And Cotton 11/13/2025

    Pivot Bio, one of the world's leading innovative agtech companies, today announced the launch of new dry planter box treatments for its nitrogen-fixing technology, Pivot Bio PROVEN® G3 Dry for corn and Pivot Bio CERT-N™ Dry for cotton, giving farmers another convenient, reliable way to apply the company's exclusive, proprietary gene-edited microbes at planting.

  2. Accelerating Wheat Breeding, From Toluca In Mexico To The World 11/12/2025

    In Mexico, a project has been completed to develop new elite parental lines of wheat with increased resistance to diseases.

  3. Wild Grass Offers New Genetic Clues To Combat Deadliest Pathogen Of Wheat 11/11/2025

    A new study published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI) has identified Aegilops cylindrica, a wild grass closely related to wheat, as a powerful genetic reservoir for resistance against the devastating fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici—the cause of Septoria tritici blotch (STB).

  4. Kemin Introduces Valena™ FLOW, A Novel Plant Growth Technology Driving Gains In Yield And Crop Quality 11/10/2025

    Kemin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services, now offers Valena™ FLOW, a breakthrough foliar nutrition solution designed to elevate crop performance through enhanced nutrient uptake, improved plant vigor, and measurable yield increases, for growers in the United States.

  5. Collaborative Research Team To Uncover How Plants 'Remember' And Adapt To Heat Stress 11/10/2025

    A new collaborative research team of plant scientists led by Ru Zhang, PhD, associate member, Danforth Plant Science Center has been awarded new funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate how photosynthetic cells retain “heat stress memory” (HSM), a key adaptive mechanism that could help future crops withstand intense and frequent heat waves.

  6. Origin Agritech Strengthens Gene Editing Platform Through Patent License Agreement With Shunfeng BioTech 11/10/2025

    Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED) (the "Company" or "Origin"), a leading Chinese agricultural technology company, today announced it has entered into a patent license agreement with Shandong Shunfeng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. ("Shunfeng BioTech") for the Cas-SF01 gene editing tool.

  7. Precision Genetic Engineering Points To A Future Of Sustainable Agriculture 11/7/2025

    As Earth's climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population.

  8. Crop Rotation: A Global Lever For Yield, Nutrition And Revenue 11/7/2025

    An international study involving INRAE and coordinated by China Agriculture University has shown that the practice of crop rotation outperforms continuous monoculture in terms of yield, nutritional quality and farm revenues.

  9. CGIAR And HarvestPlus Support National Policy Change To Embed Nutrition In Every Seed 11/6/2025

    For over two decades, biofortification has helped make staple crops more nutritious for more than 350 million people.

  10. New Research Advances Understanding Of Nitrogen Management In Cacao Production 11/6/2025

    Two new studies highlight how nitrogen availability and monitoring tools influence cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) growth, nutrient demand, and water use, offering important insights for sustainable cocoa production.