CURRENT HEADLINES

• METTLER TOLEDO Introduces New Inspection Systems At Pack Expo Las Vegas 2021

  9/22/2021

  METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection introduces several new technologies in booth C-1814 at Pack Expo, being held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, September 27 – 29, 2021.

• Inline Ultra High Shear Mixer 700 Series Designed For Challenging Shear Requirements

  9/17/2021

  The ROSS Inline Ultra High Shear Mixer 700 Series is designed for challenging shear requirements, a more efficient alternative to colloid mills which generally suffer from low throughput.

• Advanced Model And Field Data Add Up To Better Cover Crop Management

  9/16/2021

  Cover crops are widely seen as one of the most promising conservation practices, improving soil health while also removing carbon from the atmosphere.

• New Meat Analogue Developed By Lithuanian Scientists – Healthier, More Flavours And Environmentally Friendly

  9/16/2021

  A team of researchers from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania and the University of Helsinki have proposed an extremely nutritious meat analogue using fermented okara (soy press cake).

• New Food Freezing Concept Improves Quality, Increases Safety And Cuts Energy Use

  9/16/2021

  Shifting to a new food freezing method could make for safer and better quality frozen foods while saving energy and reducing carbon emissions, according to a new study by U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of California-Berkeley scientists.

• Soft Robotics Launches SoftAI™ To Accelerate Adoption Of Robotics In Food Processing

  9/15/2021

  Today Soft Robotics Inc. announced its launch of SoftAI Solutions incorporating proprietary 3D vision, artificial intelligence software, and industry-proven soft grasping to address the most pressing problem plaguing the food industry – the inability to meaningfully automate operations.

• Extreme Weather Requires New Approaches To Farming

  9/14/2021

  Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), announced its GrowPods can be used to grow food in areas prone to extreme weather or damaged by floods, hurricanes, and fires.

• Tracking Wild Peanut Genes To Improve Crop Resilience

  9/13/2021

  A decade ago, University of Georgia plant scientists David and Soraya Bertioli were living and working in Brazil when they began to wonder about peanut plants they encountered in different corners of the world with an astounding ability to withstand fungal diseases without the use of fungicides.

• Loma Systems® Is Back On The Road With The Ultimate X-Ray Inspection And Metal Detection Solutions For Harsh Washdown Environments At Pack Expo Las Vegas

  9/13/2021

  Loma Systems, a global leader in inspection technologies for food quality and safety, will be showcasing its latest technologies at Pack Expo Las Vegas on 27 - 29 September 2021 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company is exhibiting on booth #4222.

• Researchers Design Sensors To Rapidly Detect Plant Hormones

  9/13/2021

  Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and their local collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), have developed the first-ever nanosensor to enable rapid testing of synthetic auxin plant hormones.