Meatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine flu epidemic ravages one quarter of the world’s pork supply — and has raised $10 million in financing to support its new direction. 
According to the territorial administrations of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), the export of grain and products of its processing (hereinafter - products) from the Russian Federation in 2019/20 MY (hereinafter - years), taking into account shipments to the territory of the countries of the Customs Union, amounted to 26.9 million tons, which is 2.9 million tons or 10% less than volumes on the same date in 2018/19 (29.8 million tons, for comparison - for the… 
The Laboratory of Quality and Safety of Animal and Plant Products, Feed and Environmental Objects of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) received 382 samples for the first half of December, with which 3655 tests were conducted. As a result, four samples were found that did not comply with the regulatory documentation. 
In November, chilled and frozen chickens in Russia cost an average of RUR 143.44 per kg ($ 2.29), which is 0.9% less than in the previous month, and 3.4% less than in November 2018. Since the beginning of the year, the price has fallen by 6.2%. 
On December 14, a Winter Project Training was held. Its organizers are the residents team of the OmSAU business incubator (Omsky Biocluster member), together with the Omsky Biocluster StartUpAcademia. The purpose of this training event is the formation of project teams from among the OmSAU business incubator residents with the participation of leading Omsky Biocluster companies in order to promote projects in a digitalized economy. 
The European Union plans to drastically limit the use of chemicals for plant protection and pest control. According to the new plans of the European Commission, their use should be reduced by 50% by 2030, according to the publication of Funke media group. 
The volume of investments in agriculture, forestry and fisheries of Kazakhstan in the first ten months of 2019 increased by 379.4 billion tenge ($ 974 million), which is 33.8% more than in the same period in 2018. 
Farmers Edge, a global leader in digital agriculture, today announced that it is modernizing agricultural lending, moving beyond the "five C's of credit" to a data-driven model that will fuel the next era of loan services for the industry.