Yearly Archives: 2016

Brookings: Missouri in Top 10 for Advanced Industry Growth

A report released last week by the Brookings Institution tracked the growth of advanced manufacturing industries across the US, and discovered that Missouri was in the top 10 for both output and jobs. ... Read More

Missouri-based Monsanto Launching New Digital Farming Platform

Missouri-based Monsanto Co.’s Climate Corp. unit has completed development on a new in-field sensor network, which includes an industry first soil nitrate sensor, and plans to expand its software infrastructure to ... Read More

Missouri Proves Prime Choice For Israeli Agtech Companies In U.S.

In 2014, plant scientists and business leaders from St. Louis, Missouri, visited Israel in the hope of “planting seeds” that could one day draw expanding Israeli agtech companies into the St. ... Read More

Missouri City Named Among Top U.S. Cities For Entrepreneurs To “Live & Launch”

  Columbia, Missouri was recently ranked the 8th best city in the U.S. for entrepreneurs to “live and launch”, by entrepreneur.com. The website listed its “15 Best U.S. Cities for Entrepreneurs to Live and ... Read More

Missouri-based AgTech Firm Launches Cloud Biology Software

Benson Hill Biosystems, a Missouri-based AgTech firm located in the Helix Center Biotech Incubator, has launched its cloud biology software, called CropOS, which can be used to dramatically accelerate plant genomics ... Read More

Missouri Manufacturer Earns Top Rankings

Kansas City, Missouri, based luxury watch manufacturer Niall has been ranked No. 1 in the nation on The Good Trade’s “Guide to American Made Watches.” The ranking recognized Niall’s “quality and ... Read More

Hacking the Farm

Missouri is the global leader in AgTech due to Missouri companies such as Monsanto and the Climate Corporation. “We’re using data science to de-convolute what’s going on [on the farm],” Climate Corporation ... Read More

Missouri AgTech Tool is First of its Kind

Missouri is the global leader in AgTech, and a new tool from Valent BioSciences Corporation and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is about to add to that leadership position. The large-scale X-ray ... Read More

Israeli AgTech Firms See Missouri As A Place To Grow

When a group of St. Louisans visited Israel in 2014 to build ties with that country’s entrepreneurs, they expected to wait years for the effort to bear fruit. Instead, it took ... Read More

Missouri Will Be Road Map For PACE Success In Ag

Missouri is already the global leader in AgTech, and now Clean Energy is part of our AgTech industry. Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) funding, an increasingly popular tool for financing commercial energy ... Read More