“No matter where I travel in the world, consumers are looking for safe, healthy, affordable food produced with less chemicals,” says veteran executive Kevin Helash. As the new CEO at Biotalys NV he’s in a position to help meet those demands.
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MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation, preparing barley seeds by the bucketful.
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Agtech startup AgBiome is laying off 123 workers, according to a layoff notice filed with the state of North Carolina. Agtech startup AgBiome is “potentially” laying off all its 123 workers, according to a layoff notice filed with the state of North Carolina. AgBiome is trying to raise capital, one of its co-CEO says, in order to stay in business “for the foreseeable future.”
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The AgTech Innovation Alliance, an agricultural innovation network spearheaded by California-based nonprofit AgStart, has won a $150,000 Small Business Administration award that includes funds to boost North Carolina’s growing ag tech industry.
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Research Triangle Park-based AgBiome has tapped Ginkgo Bioworks to help it accelerate the development of new agricultural biologicals and improve existing products used in crop protection.
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The winner of the Gig East Summit pitch event is Druid Agriculture, a Charlotte-based startup that has developed a simple, affordable AI-enabled software and camera system that allows farmers to remotely manage and monitor crops so they can solve problems faster and improve yields.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Iowa State University have demonstrated an automated technology capable of accurately measuring the angle of leaves on corn plants in the field. This technology makes data collection on leaf angles significantly more efficient than conventional techniques, providing plant breeders with useful data more quickly.
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The Research Triangle Park-based startup is developing a targeted way of controlling agricultural diseases and pests that can devastate crops. Innatrix’s environmentally friendly technology uses peptides to attach and block pathogen-promoting proteins, and RNAi to shut down genes that are essential for the survival of pests in targeted crops.
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Ever thought of farmers as the ultimate entrepreneurs? Or considered how the food we eat can taste good and create social good at the same time? Let’s take a look.
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