by Travis Martin | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Cash crops might be getting a new family member in the coming years, and they might want to prep for the big, warm hug from cousin cacti. According to researchers at the University of Nevada, there’s a notion the low-maintenance cactus pear crop could provide fuel and...
by Travis Martin | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
With a cool $6 million injection from Spruce Capital Partners and Leaps by Bayer, Amfora is inching closer to its goal of producing plants that pack a protein punch. The San Francisco-based food tech startup uses gene editing to make precise genome modifications to...
by Travis Martin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Consumers continue to push for more oversight into animal welfare and sustainability practices, and California’s Proposition 12 (formally titled Prevention of Cruelty to Farm Animals Act) is just the latest in a string of measures that will significantly impact the...
by Travis Martin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
We teased it on Tuesday, but bananas truly had a bonkers 2020. Rewind: Supplies tightened due to late-2020 hurricanes that hit Guatemala and Honduras, wiping out 27% of Honduras’ production alone. The $19 million financial hit had global implications as both countries...
by Travis Martin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Soy and sugar-filled cargo ships are playing a seaworthy game of Tetris at Latin American ports these days. Historically dry conditions have led to Brazil’s slowest soybean harvest in a decade. Farmers now find themselves competing with sugar traders for space at...
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