Touch the Soil News #1784 (Feature Photo – Cargill Facility CCA 3.0 Unported) Agfunder news journalist Jack Ellis, brings us an overview of the future of food that includes comments from the CEOs of Cargill and Bayer – two of the largest agricultural conglomerates in the world. Cargill is the largest privately held company in…
Touch the Soil News #1672 (Feature Photo – Manikandan Pattabiraman in his greenhouse – courtesy of Manikandan Pattabiraman) The Better India journalist Angarika Gogoi brings us the story of Manikandan Pattabiraman. He quit his IT job several years ago and now sells gardening kits to thousands of people. He also runs his own hydroponic farm…
Touch the Soil News #1449 (Feature photo – The Millen Farm – courtesy of the Millen Farm) ABC New of Australia brings us the story of one of the largest urban farms in the nation. Called the Millen Farm, entrepreneur Arran Heideman has turned a waste land area into a non-profit farming enterprise in a…
Touch the Soil News #1445 (Feature photo – Kimbal Musk – CCA SA 4.0 International -1000X2020) There are many large vertical indoor farming enterprises that have emerged over the past five years. One of them is Square Roots, founded and owned by Kimbal Musk, brother to Elon Musk of Tesla. Recently, a partnership was formed…
Touch the Soil News #1351 (Feature photo – Inside a Sainsbury’s Store Today –Public Domain – Jongleur 100) AgFunder journalist Richard Martyn-Hemphill explores an unusual report commissioned by Sainbury’s – the third largest grocer in the United Kingdom. One idea the report puts forth is current trends for bringing diversity back into the seeds and…
Touch the Soil News #1290 (Feature photo – The World’s Nations Supporting the FAO – By Alinor at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18346607) According to the latest report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the future of food is not a system prone to compromise eco-systems, food security, land,…
Touch the Soil News #1281 (Feature photo – Food – Public Domain) With food spending in the U.S. reaching over $1.5 trillion a year, the food sector has become attractive for new investment and innovation that will change the future of food. Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) takes a look at where new venture capital money is…
