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Founder and journalist at iGrow News, covering Agriculture, Energy, and Water technology. I report on the companies, funding, and trends shaping these sectors, with a focus on accurate, unbiased coverage. Follow me on LinkedIn and Twitter.

McDermott and ULC-Energy Sign Cooperation Deal to Advance Rolls-Royce SMR Projects

McDermott and ULC-Energy have signed a cooperation agreement to support development of Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor projects in the Netherlands, including the integration of SMR-powered energy with energy-intensive industrial processes. The agreement is expected to combine McDermott's experience in energy transition and industrial decarbonization with ULC-Energy's nuclear project development capabilities.

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Adamant Agro Launches to Link Low-Carbon Farming and Renewable Fuel

Zug, Switzerland-based Adamant Group announced on July 20, 2026, the creation of Adamant Agro, a new business unit bringing together the company's agricultural activities worldwide. Headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the unit will build a platform for sourcing and certifying low-carbon-intensity, or Low-CI, agricultural feedstock for the bioenergy and sustainable

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Walden Renewables Secures Up to $250M Financing Facility From Crayhill Capital

Key Takeaways Walden Renewables Development LLC has secured a development capital financing facility of up to $250 million. The facility comes from Crayhill Capital Management. Walden Renewables develops, builds, and […]

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Agerpoint Wins Meta AI Glasses Impact Grant for Agriculture

Agerpoint, a company focused on spatial intelligence and AI for agriculture and natural asset management, has been named a recipient of an AI Glasses Impact Grant from Meta. The grant is part of a Meta program recognizing innovations that drive positive societal and economic value through wearable technology, and Agerpoint

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Pessl Instruments and 1NCE Roll Out Global Smart Farming Weather Network

Pessl Instruments, a smart agriculture company, has partnered with IoT connectivity provider 1NCE to roll out the METOS by Pessl Instruments weather network solution powered by 1NCE. The companies said the platform connects thousands of weather stations and field sensors through a single system, giving farmers real-time data on precipitation

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Mars Brings Shubh Mint Programme Sourcing Into European Chewing Gum Supply Chain

Mars is bringing natural menthol sourced through its Shubh Mint programme into its European chewing gum supply chain, beginning to integrate the ingredient into manufacturing operations in the UK and Poland. Mint is a key ingredient across several of Mars' global brands, but roughly 80% of the world's natural menthol

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Athian Sells First Sustainability Insets for Brazilian Beef

Athian has sold the first sustainability insets generated from Brazilian beef production, applying an insetting framework it developed together with climate technology company Rumin8 and meatpacker Minerva Foods. The underlying study found significantly reduced methane emissions from cattle fed an ingredient developed by Rumin8, tested in a Brazilian feedlot setting.

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KPM Analytics Launches SiftAI FM HD Foreign Material Detection Platform

KPM Analytics has launched the SiftAI FM HD Foreign Material Detection Platform, the next generation of its foreign material inspection technology for the food industry. The company said the platform builds on four years of performance data and adds AI-based inspection capabilities aimed at the meat and poultry sector.

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Eolian Begins Construction on 1+ GWh Flint Grid Battery Storage Project

Eolian has begun building Flint Grid, a 200 MW battery energy storage system with more than five hours of duration, adding up to roughly 1.06 gigawatt-hours of capacity, in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio. The project sits adjacent to New Albany data center and industrial load, an area Eolian describes

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Quadrant Nuclear and Parsons Partner to Advance US Nuclear Fuel Cycle Projects

Quadrant Nuclear Industries (QNI) and Parsons Corporation have announced a strategic alliance supporting proposed nuclear fuel cycle infrastructure at Idaho National Laboratory. The agreement combines QNI's work in nuclear fuel recycling and high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) production with Parsons' engineering, procurement, and construction expertise.

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