Kipster adopts in-ovo sexing to maintain no-cull commitment amid infrastructure challenges
It is only the second US company to use this technology
Archives for June 18, 2025
Commercializing phages: Inside three pioneering companies
As the global agriculture industry wrestles with AMR, tighter regulations, and the call for sustainability, bacteriophage-based solutions have emerged as a promising - but complex - alternative to antibiotics
Waste not: envoPAP new India facility able to process 150,000 tonnes of agri waste
Sustainable material company envoPAP will be able to upcycle 150,000 tonnes of agricultural waste once it opens its manufacturing facility in India this year.
Fill in the blanks: Japan turns to corporate farm ownership as it faces looming abandonment crisis
Japan is calling for more acceptance of corporations owning farmland as they risk abandonment with an ageing agricultural workforce
‘Fear of finance rejection’ stalks adoption of innovative farming practices
With the fear of getting rejected by traditional financial institutions a huge deterrent to trying innovative practices, finance providers InSoil and Key Carbon have joined forces to raise €100 million to give to European farmers to adopt regenerative...
Pivot Bio reports biologicals usage uptick in 2024 impact report
Usage of Pivot Bio’s biologicals grew in 2024, reducing synthetic fertiliser dependence and associated environmental impacts, like nitrate leaching
‘We don’t want to be a company that’s left in the box’: Innov8.ag on what’s key to actionable data
Agtech data company Innov8.ag was started by former Microsoft executive Steve Mantle in 2019, initially to help local apple growers in the US state of Washington reduce their use of water, fertilisers, and labour
Agricultural waste can become the clothes of the future, study says
As cellulose-based textile materials are being sought a more sustainable alternative to cotton researchers in Sweden points to the possibility of using agricultural waste from wheat and oat