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