The next major opportunities may depend less on inventing new technologies and more on building the financial, commercial and data infrastructure needed to bring existing innovations to farms.
China is implementing a programme to develop its most promising agtech companies as it seeks greater self-reliance and strength in agricultural science and technology.
The protein boom is reshaping the food industry and our diets. The growing craze for protein is now giving cheesemakers access to a more lucrative market.
Many African countries still import a large share of the poultry they consume. This is often seen as a sign of insufficient production capacity, but the real problem lies elsewhere.
Diverse foods derived from livestock production systems, including grazing and pastoralist systems, and from the hunting of wild animals, provide high-quality proteins, important fatty acids and various vitamins and minerals.
Years of research and field trials have demonstrated many ways to grow crops sustainably in saline conditions. But even as punishing droughts, saltwater intrusion and intensive irrigation threaten to drive.
Farmers go to extraordinary lengths to shield their perfect strawberries and grapes from the elements. But the industry hasn’t been able to protect itself as well from intellectual property theft.
A UN index of food-commodity prices has hit its highest level in more than three years, as extreme weather, wildfires and conflicts disrupt crop growing and transport.
Fertilizer decisions are rarely simple. The current phosphorus and potassium market outlook is creating an especially difficult planning environment for growers and their agricultural retail advisors.
Consumers are switching back to normal dairy. In the past year, the volume of plant-based alternatives to milk sold in America has fallen by 5.4%, according to Circana, a market-research.
