Local Bounti Corporation (NYSE: LOCL) has announced the commercial launch of a six-product assortment of its indoor-grown leafy greens at Harris Teeter, covering the grocer's entire network of more than 250 stores across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The placement strengthens Local Bounti's retail footprint in the region and expands its
Picketa Systems has closed an oversubscribed $2.1 million funding round led by Tall Grass Ventures, with participation from new investors
Between 2022 and mid-2026, 32 companies in the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry filed for bankruptcy, entered restructuring, or ceased operations. The first wave had a clear explanation: rising interest rates, energy price spikes, the withdrawal of cheap capital. But those conditions began to ease in 2025, and the failures
French agricultural cooperative group Océalia has announced a minority stake investment in agtech startup Cyclair, as part of its Cap 2030 strategic plan. The investment is positioned as a direct step toward offering cooperative members a concrete alternative to chemical herbicides — one that reduces environmental impact without cutting into
Ardian and Societe Generale have announced a nature-based solutions equity partnership centered on Averrhoa NBS, a new impact fund managed by Ardian's Infrastructure team alongside aDryada Advisory. Societe Generale has committed EUR 100 million as the fund's anchor investor and will provide financial advisory and structuring support through its affiliate,
Tiryaki Syria, operating under Tiryaki Anadolu — a wholly owned subsidiary of Tiryaki Agro — has signed a cooperation agreement with the Syrian Sovereign Fund to build a large-scale agricultural processing facility in Syria. The deal covers a 10-year operational period and targets around USD 500 million in annual processing
The University of Warwick is leading a €6 million EU Horizon project called PhytoPRISM, bringing together 15 research institutions and stakeholders across eight countries to build Europe's first integrated platform for coordinating responses to transboundary agricultural and forest pest threats.
Farm Credit Canada has launched a $1 billion Agri-Food Project Financing Fund, a dedicated vehicle aimed at accelerating agri-food infrastructure development across the country. The fund is part of the Canadian government's National Food Security Strategy and responds directly to a well-documented structural weakness in the sector: most of Canada's
Agricultural AI company Farmwave has named Michael K. Stern as Advisor and Member of its Board of Directors. Stern, who previously served as CEO of The Climate Corporation and Head of Digital Farming at Bayer Crop Science, joins the company as it prepares to expand its Precision Harvest System into
Circularity Fuels has announced the completion of what it describes as the world's first end-to-end conversion of raw agricultural biogas into sustainable aviation fuel. The six-month pilot drew biogas directly from the manure digester of a California dairy farm, processing it without pre-treatment through an integrated system developed entirely by