Ag on Instagram: The week’s best photos on March 13, 2026
We bring you some of the best farm photos from the week this Friday, March 13, 2026! Be sure to hash…
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National Dairy Board opens 11 scholarships worth $2,500
Eleven scholarships worth $2,500 each will be awarded, in addition to a $3,500 James H. Loper Jr. Me…
Sanitary crackdown slows Brazil soybean flow to China at peak export season
Documentation and inspection changes disrupt soybean flows from Brazil to China as exporters navigat…
FDA clears F10 wound spray for New World screwworm treatment
The FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization allowing F10 Antiseptic Wound Spray with Insectici…
Farm community pushes back against Maryland governor’s MeatOut Day
Maryland Farm Bureau and others have spoken out against Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's declaration of Mar…
Precision spraying startup AgZen nets $10m Series B. ‘Quantifiable ROI drove our investment,’ says DCVC Bio
Farmers using AgZen’s RealCoverage tech have been able to reduce chemical inputs by 30-50% without a…
North Dakota diversion project dials up the discord in Missouri River Basin states
Stakeholders in Missouri and North Dakota see this as the latest step in decades of conflict over th…
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Sponsors demand refunds as organizers of delayed Food Tech Congress go ‘silent’
Sponsors who have parted with cash to back the event say the organizer has gone “silent,” with requests for refunds garnering no response. The post Sponsors dem…
UnitedAg awards $100,000 in scholarships to agricultural students
UnitedAg awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships to 40 students from agricultural companies in Ca…
AgriFood Signals: First close for Aqua-Spark Africa fund, Anchr nabs funds for AI in food distribution
Plus: A new way to define ultra-processed foods. The post AgriFood Signals: First close for Aqua-Spa…
Tropic bags $105m to scale gene-edited bananas, deploy TR4 resistant bananas in 2027
"2025 proved that our technology delivers, not in the distant future, but right now," says CEO Gilad…
Angus Foundation introduces new vo-tech scholarship for 2026
The Angus Foundation is launching a new Vo-Tech Scholarship in 2026 to support students pursuing ski…
ADM, American Farmland Trust launch $500K farmer initiative
ADM Cares is investing $500,000 through a partnership with American Farmland Trust to provide Midwes…
Rising oil prices push input costs higher for cattle producers
A record weekly surge in U.S. diesel prices is raising transportation and operating costs for cattle…
Proposed rail merger could raise costs for farmers
Farm Bureau warns the proposed $85 billion Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger could reduce rail c…
FFA Next Gen conference connects students with technical careers
The National FFA Organization hosted its first 2026 Next Gen Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, …
Mycotoxin report shows global feed risks remain high
Cargill’s 2025 Global Mycotoxin Report shows widespread feed contamination worldwide, with multiple …
FBI arrests Agridime executive Joshua Link in $220M cattle-fraud case
The FBI arrested Agridime executive Joshua Link at Los Angeles International Airport in connection w…
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Crop Diagnostix launches RNA-based crop health early-warning system
RNA reveals plants' real-time biological response to stress, which occurs long before conventional tools detect problems, says the firm. The post Crop Diagnosti…
New York farmers positioned themselves perfectly for dairy’s production boom
Brands such as Chobani and Fairlife have identified New York as the ideal environment for a dairy re…
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Leaps by Bayer’s PJ Amini on exits, epigenetics, AI-driven discovery and his ‘50% rule’
Unicorns are vanishingly rare in agrifoodtech, says PJ Amini. "But people still pay to go to the zoo to see a bunch of zebras.” The post Leaps by Bayer’s PJ Ami…
California Cultured bets on $3k reusable plastic bioreactors to transform economics of cultured cocoa
"When people see the production costs and the product quality later this year, it will shift the con…
Buckle up, say investors as AI reshapes agrifoodtech: ROI may be “unusually tangible’
"Physical AI agtech” could “draw a lot of capital and bring back 'tourist' VC," predicts Antony Yous…
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Guest article: The alt-meat reset. Scale won’t fix broken unit economics
"If margin is only coming from massive scale, success is tenuous," says Christie Lagally. The post Guest article: The alt-meat reset. Scale won’t fix broken uni…
AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches paraquat, TARGAN bags $100m for animal health, AeroFarms for sale
Plus: scientists harvest chickpeas from "moon dirt." The post AgriFood Signals: Syngenta ditches par…
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Remembering Rob Trice, a founding voice in agrifoodtech
Much of agrifoodtech's early identity was shaped through conversations with Rob Trice, cofounder of The Mixing Bowl and Better Food Ventures, and the connection…
With crop protection at a crossroads, it’s time for big ag to embrace its big pharma moment
Major agrochemical companies should look to pharma's recent history to address their current structu…
Amatera raises $7m to accelerate climate smart crop development by tackling screening bottleneck
Amatera’s approach is “2x faster and 10x more cost-effective” than current industry standards for de…
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Bindbridge raises $3.8m for targeted protein degradation platform for next-gen crop protection
Targeted protein degradation tricks the internal machinery of cells in weeds to destroy proteins that are essential to their survival. The post Bindbridge raise…
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Can fermentation undercut synthetics? baCta chases astaxanthin’s ‘collagen moment’
baCta—grows astaxanthin in fermentation tanks from yeast strains optimized at “unprecedented speed” …