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Meet Your Neighbors: Allied Blending, LP
Allied Blending, LP is developing specialty blends for the dairy, tortilla, and plant-based markets but they didn’t start out that way. According to CEO Frederic Schulders, Allied Blending, LP has…
Read More(Harvest Public Media) Agriculture companies are desperate for workers
Want to work in agriculture but farm life is maybe not for you? Well, right now, the largest number of open positions in agriculture is actually in cities, and science…
Read More(STL Post Dispatch) CoverCress deal is a big win for St. Louis’ ag-startup effort
The pitch sounded audacious: Turn a plant that most farmers considered a weed into a cash crop. Creating a new cash crop is a tall order, but the startup would…
Read More(AgFunder) AgTech NEXT 2022 will examine how technology, trade and talent can reinforce our food system
The Donald Donald Danforth Plant Science Center just announced AgTech NEXT 2022, a three-day event that will examine the intersection of technology, trade, and talent as they relate to our regional and global…
Read More(INNO) Bayer buys majority stake in St. Louis agtech startup
Bayer AG is acquiring a majority stake in St. Louis-based agriculture startup CoverCress Inc., a move that comes as CoverCress this year plans for a full commercial launch of its…
Read More(INNO) Fire Awards: Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator looks to elevate agtech firms
Since inking a partnership with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in 2018, the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) has placed a focus on elevating agtech startups in St. Louis.…
Read More(INNO) Two IPOs. Zero regrets.
Startup Exit Awards: Exits of the Year – Benson Hill and Nerdy Benson Hill and Nerdy didn’t begin with ambitions of becoming public companies. They started in hopes of providing…
Read MoreTwo St. Louis-Based Food Innovators Partner to Introduce Heart Healthy Cooking Oil Into Food Service Applications, Forming More Sustainable Seed-to-Shopper Supply Chain
Benson Hill, Inc. (NYSE: BHIL, the “Company” or “Benson Hill”), a food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, has signed a supplier agreement with Schnuck Markets, Inc.…
Read MoreMeet Your Neighbors: Jeffrey Straub, Plastomics
After retiring from Monsanto, Jeffrey Staub, founder and chief technology officer of Plastomics, couldn’t stay away from his first “science love”, chloroplast engineering technology. In 2016 Plastomics came to life…
Read More(Farm Progress) Pennycress: The first cash cover crop
Illinois and Missouri farmers are trying out 10,000 acres of pennycress this year, a common weed that’s been bred into a high-value oilseed good for biofuels and high-protein meal. Back…
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