RespectFarms, in collaboration with the Province of Zuid-Holland, will host the first Cell Farmers Symposium at the Provinciehuis Zuid-Holland in The Hague on June 4, 2026. The one-day event will bring together stakeholders from agritech, cellular agriculture, food policy, research, and investment to address the industrial and agricultural integration of cellular cultivation.

Seppic has introduced “the tail-ored pet care collection,” a six-piece animal hygiene and care formulation kit for dogs, cats, or horses. The kit aims to provide technical evidence and inspiration to help brands develop pet care products. The kit complements Seppic ’s companion animal ingredient collection, Sepifriend, launched in late 2025.

V-Label LATAM, the regional arm of Fundación Veg, will hold its first VegBusiness event on 27 May 2026, bringing together companies across Latin America to examine how vegan certification functions as a commercial tool in the region’s expanding plant-based market.

Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and Philipps University of Marburg, working with the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP), have developed a generative AI tool designed to reduce the number of animals required in preclinical drug testing.

South Korean foodtech company SOYFT BIOME has closed an undisclosed funding round from MYSC via its ExtraMile Lycon Fund, with plans to scale its plant-based cream and sauce lines into B2B foodservice channels and expand into adjacent markets, including cosmetics and medical nutrition.

Two years after forming a partnership to help decarbonise the cocoa industry with bean-free chocolate, Cargill and Voyage Foods are now introducing the fruits of their labour.

Bond Pet Foods and Hill’s Pet Nutrition have secured a Letter of No Objection from the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine for Lamb Protein Yeast, a fermentation-derived animal protein ingredient developed for use in dog food. The clearance is the first FDA GRAS notice completion for a precision fermentation protein ingredient targeting the pet food market.

巴西国家粮食供应公司（Conab）根据4月份开展的实地调研，预计2025/26年度巴西粮食产量将达到358亿吨。这一预测基于该公司第八次调查。产量比2024/25年度增加570万吨，增幅达1,6%，创下农业生产的新纪录。