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Luminus Adds White LEDs to Horticulture Portfolio Spanning UV to Far Red

May 21, 2018

Luminus Devices Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA – which designs and makes LEDs and solid-state light sources for the global illumination market – has expanded its horticulture LED portfolio with new SST-20 series white LEDs to ...

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Pairwise Plants Raises $25m Funding to Speed up Crop Innovation

Mar 22, 2018

Pairwise Plants has closed a $25m Series A funding round co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture capital arm of Monsanto to accelerate crop innovation. Pairwise is an agricultural company focused on ...

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Cargill Invests in Pea Protein Producer Puris

Jan 19, 2018

Cargill has invested in Puris to accelerate pea protein production for North American and global markets. With the rapid rise in consumer demand for plant-based protein, Puris, the largest North American producer of pea protein, and ...

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Tata Steel Unveils Mobile Canning Line Concept to Reduce Food Loss

Jan 15, 2018

Tata Steel has unveiled a mobile canning line concept to help farmers process and preserve food onsite. The concept will help to lower food loss at source and generate additional revenues for farmers. As per the United Nations ...

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High Yields and Nutritional Quality of Leafy Greens Achievable Using Lumileds's LUXEON SunPlus LEDs

Dec 7, 2017

The results of a controlled horticulture lighting study conducted by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA have ...

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Ben & Jerry's to Launch Glyphosate-Free Ice Cream Products

Oct 12, 2017

US-based Ben & Jerry's said it will roll out glyphosate-free ice cream products following recent tests that revealed traces of a herbicide called glyphosate in several of its flavors. The ice cream manufacturer said that it will no longer ...

Tags: ice cream, organic food

Self-Steering Volvo Truck to Boost Sugar-Cane Harvest in Brazil

Jun 12, 2017

Volvo Trucks has developed a new self-steering truck which is expected to significantly boost sugar-cane harvest in Brazil. The truck, which is used to transport newly harvested sugar-cane, is steered with great precision through the ...

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Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Announced for PS4, Switch and PC

May 17, 2017

The next entry in the charming farming series is coming to PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC, Rising Star Games has announced. According to developer Natsume, Harvest Moon: Light of Hope aims to “encompass twenty years of spirit that has ...

Tags: Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4

Cherkizovo to Acquire Russian Grain Producer Napko

Apr 11, 2017

Russian meat and feed producer Cherkizovo has agreed to acquire domestic grain producer Napko for around RUB5bn ($88m). Cherkizovo will also assume the net debt of the grain producer which stood at RUB751m ($13m) as of 31 March 2017. ...

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CPI Launches New Standard for UK's Fresh Produce Industry

Apr 5, 2017

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has launched the common footprint quality (CFQ) standard for fresh produce industry in the UK, in a bid to provide better packaging for fruits and vegetables. The new CFQ standard has been ...

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UK's Morrisons Starts Search for Best Local Food Producers

Mar 1, 2017

Morrisons is starting a search for the best local food producers who can help to feed the nation, as a new report calls for the UK to be more self-sufficient in food production and new consumer research shows an increasing appetite from ...

Tags: Food Producers, food

Monsanto Reaches Licensing Agreement with Broad Institute for Crispr System

Jan 10, 2017

Monsanto announced that it has reached a new global licensing agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for the use of the novel CRISPR-Cpf1 genome-editing technology in agriculture. The CRISPR-Cpf1 system represents an ...

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Where Food Comes From Acquires Controlling Stake in SureHarvest

Jan 5, 2017

Where Food Comes From (WFCF) has acquired a 60% stake in California based SureHarvest for nearly $2.8m in a cash-cum-stock deal. Based in Colorado, WFCF is a North American food verification company whose controlling stake in an agri-food ...

Tags: SureHarvest, cash-cum-stock

Inocucor's Specialty Ag Biological Products Registered in Canada

Dec 15, 2016

Inocucor Technologies announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has registered its first two specialty ag biological products for use by Canadian farmers and greenhouse growers. Synergro is a live-cell formulation for ...

Tags: Inocucor, Synergro

Kaiima and Horizon Ag to Jointly Develop New Rice Varieties for US Market

Nov 30, 2016

Kaiima Bio-Agritech has partnered with Horizon Ag to develop new rice varieties for the US market by using a breeding tool developed by Kaiima. While Kaiima, based in Israel, is a genetics and breeding technology company, Horizon Ag is a ...

Tags: Kaiima, EP technology

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