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What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk?
September 2, 2019. Richard Martyn-Hemphill. This really was an extraordinarily wacky and perhaps controversially ‘Homo Deus’ news story — GM goats who had been transplanted with a spider’s silk-making genes to transform their milk into something much less drinkable and much more silky. Yet this was all years ago now.
Farmers Business Network (FBN) looks back on 10 years
Dec 18, 2023 · In 2014, Charles Baron and Amol Deshpande were concocting an idea that was practically unheard of in agriculture. “The goal was to put the world of agriculture at the farmers’ fingertips and empower them through information, technology and a network,” Baron tells AgFunderNews. Farmers Business Network, commonly known as FBN, was born of ...
Online ag marketplaces: An entry point for farmers into
May 4, 2021 · As internet connections spread further into rural areas and smart devices penetrate the world’s largest agricultural markets, more opportunities to use technology for the benefit of farmers are being unlocked. According to BlueWeave Consulting, the total value of the global digital farming market is expected to reach $10.2 billion by 2025.
Regenerative Agriculture Investing: 70 Investment Groups Worth …
Jul 11, 2019 · This week, a new report, cleverly called Soil Wealth, has come out detailing the level of investment in regenerative agriculture-related projects and the numbers are surprisingly high: there are some 70 investment strategies with assets under management of over $47.5 billion, and that’s just in the US. Just to clarify, that amount includes ...
Aspire ramps up world’s largest automated cricket production facility
Mar 21, 2023 · Aspire Food Group ramps up world’s largest cricket production facility, scouts for 2nd site. March 21, 2023. Elaine Watson. If crickets—which pack an attractive nutritional punch with a low environmental impact —are going to carve out a meaningful space in the alternative protein market, two things must happen, says Aspire Food Group ...
One Acre Fund aims to safeguard farmers facing climate change
Jan 10, 2024 · Starting with a premium volume of $1.5 million, which it intends to increase to $4 million in a couple of years, One Acre Fund will offer insurance to 1 million smallholder farmers this year at premiums up to 30% lower. The fund has started out with Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Malawi; initiatives in Tanzania, Burundi and Zambia are planned for ...
Farm robotics startup farm-ng bags $10m - AgFunderNews
January 18, 2024. Jennifer Marston. California-based farm-ng has raised a $10 million Series A round to deploy more of its modular robotics for small- and mid-sized farms. Acre Venture Partners led the round with participation from Xplorer Capital, HawkTower and 10 other institutional and individual investors. Funds will go towards building out ...
eFishery nets $90m, aims to be 'world's largest digital
Jan 10, 2022 · Indonesian aquatech startup eFishery nets $90m in Sequoia, SoftBank-led Series C. January 10, 2022. Jack Ellis. Indonesian startup eFishery, which provides technology and services for aquaculture farmers, has raised $90 million in Series C funding. The round was co-led by Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek, the Indian unit of VC firm Sequoia ...
What will transform the unit economics of precision fermentation?
Nov 7, 2023 · Larger fermentation vessels and the resulting economies of scale will drive down the cost of precision fermentation. But technical advances that improve titer, productivity, and yield will be “more powerful levers” to unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy, says a new report from Synonym, a financing and development platform for biomanufacturing infrastructure.