Researchers from the University of Missouri and Texas A&M received two grants totaling $14 million to study effective cattle feeding and bovine respiratory disease, the Columbia Tribune reports.   Read More...

Dairy Farmers of America Inc. will gain ownership of Twin Cities dairy operation Kemps LLC. Kemps, based in St. Paul, Minn., said in a statement that its parent company, HP Hood LLC, had entered an agreement that would make DFA the 100 percent equity owner of the company. DFA is a giant in the dairy industry and is the largest private company in the Kansas City area.   Read More...

Trade & Industry Development, a leading magazine dedicated to site selection, has announced its 6th annual CiCi (Corporate Investment & Community Impact) Awards.   Read More...

Talented young adults are increasingly choosing to settle in the close-in neighborhoods of the nation’s metropolitan areas.   Read More...

Washington University in St. Louis is getting a $6.5 million grant for research on a vaccine to reduce recurrence in breast cancer survivors.   Read More...

Silgan Holdings agreed to acquire Graham Packaging for $1.25 billion in cash and stock in a deal designed to expand its food- and beverage-container operations.   Read More...

Will supply equipment for an ultra high voltage electricity line   Read More...

The deal is the third for Endo Pharmaceuticals in 12 months, and will add to the drug maker's treatments for urology and pain.   Read More...

The two analog chip makers are to merge in a $25-a-share all-cash deal.   Read More...

Pfizer Inc said it struck a deal to sell its Capsugel unit, the world's largest maker of hard capsules, to private equity firm KKR & Co for nearly $2.38 billion.   Read More...

The Belgian chemical company Solvay has agreed to buy the French specialty chemicals maker Rhodia, gaining a greater exposure to high-growth emerging markets.   Read More...

The business incubator operated in St. Peters, Mo., by the Economic Development Center of St. Charles County has added 10 startups as tenants, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.   Read More...

The announcement that Google Inc. will bring its ultra high-speed Internet service to Kansas City, Kan., helps rather than harms Missouri efforts to bring data center projects to the Show-Me state.   Read More...

The St. Louis region has been struggling for years to grow more high-tech companies. On Tuesday, it got a truckload of fertilizer.   Read More...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a $685 million agreement Tuesday to begin construction on the next phase of high-speed rail between Chicago and St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal reports. Construction will begin April 5 of a new rail track using concrete ties between Dwight and Lincoln, as well as between Alton and the Mississippi River, along with the installation of a modernized signal system between Dwight and Alton.   Read More...

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has agreed to buy a 35 percent stake in Novatec Solar (formerly Novatec Biosol), an innovative Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology company based in Karlsruhe, Germany.   Read More...

INRIX has the nation’s largest data warehouse of sampled vehicle speeds, including the most extensive data related specifically to freight activity. In this Annual Scorecard, the subset of GPS vehicle probe data from 2010 attributed to vehicles focused on long haul freight movement has been separated from the full archive to present a timely picture on national freight movement via highways. While the distribution of samples may not precisely match the movement of all long haul vehicles nationwide, with INRIX’s billions of data points and sources nationwide, this is the most extensive, consistent, and current analysis available on national freight activity.   Read More...

Emerson Network Power announced it will deliver data center infrastrcture management solutions and cooling and power technologies to leading IT solutions and services provider Datacraft for six Internet data centers in India.   Read More...

Missouri Department of Economic Development Director David Kerr announced yesterday that the state designated a 107-acre tract of land in northeast Columbia as a “certified site,” which bills land as ready for industrial development.   Read More...

Monsanto Co. said Tuesday it entered into an agreement for a multi-year collaboration with Sapphire Energy Inc. to leverage Sapphire’s algae research to discover genes that could be applied to agriculture.   Read More...