In Missouri, Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, a non-profit member-based organization launching a national scale ecosystem service market program for agriculture, and Benson Hill, Inc., a food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, completed the first year of a carbon credit pilot leveraging Benson Hill’s farm to ingredient business model. Over 2021, ESMC […]
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research builds unique partnerships to support innovative science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. If you missed ABLC Connect last week, check out this slide guide on SARA – sustainable, affordable, reliable, available supply-chains and raw materials supplies through public-private partnerships for agricultural research and creating bioeconomy ecosystems that […]
In Washington, D.C., for the first time in four years, EPA relaunched its Climate Change Indicators in the United States website for the public. The site features interactive data-exploration tools offering a closer look at graphs, maps, and figures, the importance of indicators and how climate change can affect human health and the environment. This […]
In Kansas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting comments on an updated Draft Guidance for Plant Regulators and Claims, Including Plant Biostimulants that contain naturally occurring substances and microbes. “Plant biostimulants are increasingly being used by farmers to increase agriculture productivity,” said EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention […]
In Germany, BASF and TECNALIA, a European center for research and technological development, are collaborating in digitalization to accelerate the global research and development of new crop protection products which will help contribute to a faster development of innovations that respond to farmers’ needs worldwide to control weeds, fungal diseases and insect pests in their […]
In Missouri, Benson Hill announced the close of a whopping $150 million Series D funding round led by Wheatsheaf Group and GV (formerly Google Ventures). The company’s food innovation engine CropOS taps nature’s genetic diversity to develop and commercialize healthier and more sustainable food and ingredient options that benefit farmers, food companies, and ultimately, consumers. […]
In Germany, researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum are looking at the benefits of biopolymers for the targeted introduction of fertilizers into agricultural soils and to develop a method to encapsulate fertilizer and continuously introduce it into the soil. The capsule material forms a barrier to the environment and is intended to prevent a sudden release of […]
In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is offering its entire portfolio of patented technologies on a research trial basis—at no cost—to spur economic development and ultimately create new jobs. Dozens of technologies could be deployed across U.S. markets spanning everything from analytical instruments, human health and agriculture to advanced manufacturing, […]
In Illinois, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL) helped pass a comprehensive Agriculture and Rural Development funding bill out of the powerful House Appropriations Committee that would deliver more than $152 billion in agriculture and rural support, including bolstering biofuels. Congresswoman Bustos successfully secured a number of provisions for Illinois and rural America including: Bolstering the use […]
In Germany, UFOP criticized the “Farm-to-Fork Strategy” presented by the European Commission, saying “This is not what perspective and collaboration look like” and “With this document, the EU Commission is far from taking this collaborative approach. On the contrary, agriculture is more or less directly denounced for undesirable nutritional developments and the use of technical […]
