Innovation
ADM invests in pheromone research
ADM has bought a minority stake in a French biotechnology company that develops pheromones for applications in sustainable crop protection, human health and animal welfare. London-based ADM Capital Europe’s Cibus Fund has led a €60 million funding round for M2i Life...
Commonwealth conference for Norfolk in 2020
The Commonwealth Agriculture Conference, held every two years in a different member country, is to be held in Norwich, Norfolk in early July 2020. The 2018 conference was held in Alberta, Canada. Lord Vestey, chairman of the Royal Agricultural Society of the...
Bayer JV to develop biopesticides
The Bayer Group has announced a $110 million collaboration with Arvinas, a US biopharmaceutical company based in New Haven, Connecticut, to develop novel products for the crop protection and human healthcare sectors. The new life science research partnership will...
EU funds largescale French insect protein plant
The European Commission is to part fund an ambitious insect protein factory in northern France, together with a joint feed supply chain consortium. The Farmyng project aims to establish the facility at Poulainville near Amiens, using the Ÿnsect company’s patented...
Protix opens world’s largest insect farm
The Dutch insect protein business Protix has opened what it claims is the world’s largest and most advanced insect farm at Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands. The Protix system uses black soldier fly (hermetia illucens) larvae to convert plant residues to a protein...
TerraMap lifts soil mapping accuracy and window
Hutchinsons has launched a new soil nutrient mapping service, which it says is the first high definition system available in the UK, with an extended data collection window. TerraMap uses gamma-ray detection technology to delivers resolutions of over 800 points per...
