AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foo…

欧盟-南共市场协定推进、美国对华关税博弈持续、印度向后整合加速、拉美大豆种植面积波动——这些新闻，你可能每周都在看。但你是否真正知道，这些宏观变量，正在以什么样的传导路径，影响你的目标市场定价、你的出口竞争力、你的客户明年的采购预算？

The Lausanne-based company said its Phase III LOTIS-5 trial met its primary endpoint, showing that Zynlonta (loncastuximab tesirine) plus rituximab, the anti-CD20 antibody that remains a backbone of B-cell lymphoma treatment across multiple lines of therapy, significantly improved progression-free survival compared with rituximab plus a chemotherapy regimen consisting of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin, commonly known as R-GemOx, in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The study enrolled 440 patients after at least one prior line of systemic therapy.

Researchers working to advance genome engineering in crops face many challenges, including simultaneously introducing diverse genome edits. Although a major goal of modern crop breeding is to efficiently combine multiple desirable traits by “stacking” the favorable alleles that contribute to those traits in a single crop variety, current strategies are time-consuming and inefficient.

While rotary rakes are particularly effective for grass and straw from stemmed crops such as cereals, pickup rakes offer clear advantages for leafy and herbaceous crops such as lucerne or clover. Thanks to the Swativo T 1040 Pro’s gentle collection and conveyance of the crops, leaf loss is minimised and forage quality is further improved.

Lilly announced that it would reduce the not-yet-implemented part of its major project in Alzey, in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, by around half. The production facility for biopharmaceutical medicines is still scheduled to begin operations in 2027, but with lower capacity than originally planned. According to the company, investments of up to US$1.5bn, as well as a significant share of the jobs originally planned, are now in question.

AI tools for measuring and managing food waste are gaining traction, but adoption remains fragmented, with companies rel…

This week, Bio-Techne, a provider of life science tools, reagents, and diagnostic product, and Refeyn, a pioneer in mass photometry technology, announced the launch of an integrated workflow for characterizing charge and size variants in bispecific antibodies and biosimilars. 

By Autumn Demberger, AgInvesting MediaNext week, the global agriculture investment sector will join together in the heart of Brisbane, Australia for the inaugural GAI Australia summit, taking place June 10-11. For the first time in its near-two-decade history, Global AgInvesting (GAI)—the world’s premier gathering for agriculture, water, timberland, and natural capital stakeholders—is heading to the Southern Hemisphere.