Ag tech

Benson Hill says the merger will speed up the development of more sustainable and healthier plants to help address the increasing global demand for food.

Opposition to electronic tracking is bringing together an unusual group of interests in the agriculture community, but its use overseas may make it an inevitability in time.

Edison Agrosciences is the St. Louis based agricultural biotechnology company working to develop alternative rubber crops. It’s found a product that it believes can become a source of homegrown rubber: sunflowers.

Foodshed.io is testing its technology in the region through a deal with Schnucks Markets. It also has agreements with more than two dozen area farms with plans to add more.

At the St. Louis Science Center’s GROW exhibit on agriculture, a metal box casts violet light on a dozen basil plants.A St. Louis-based startup called…

Rising temperatures in tropical forests along the equator are threatening cacao trees -— the source of beans used in making chocolate. Benson Hill, a St.…

More than 400 researchers, entrepreneurs and investors are expected to attend Ag Innovation Showcase this week, the 10th year it’s been hosted by the…

The sign at Monsanto’s former headquarters now says Bayer.This week, Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto officially got underway. While the $66-billion deal…

When human exploration on Mars becomes possible, St. Louis startup MARSfarm aspires to grow crops there.But because it will be years before humans will be…

In a Brookings Institution study of 70 older industrial cities, St. Louis ranks among the ones with stronger economies that are making progress on the…