Ag tech

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…

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.4 million to researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of…

As European regulators investigate the potential $66 billion Bayer-Monsanto merger, Bayer's CropScience division is preparing to address challenges in…

The public can hear more about plans for 39 North, the 600-acre plant science innovation district in Creve Coeur, on Thursday night.The Danforth Center is…