The Nutrition of Breastmilk, the Practicality of Formula

The Nutrition of Breastmilk, the Practicality of Formula

The Nutrition of Breastmilk, the Practicality of Formula

Biomilq is developing new technologies to culture breast milk outside of the body, using human mother cells to create a custom product. Its bioreactor grows these cells to produce milk as they would in the human body, resulting in sterile milk that ships in shelf-stable, pre-portioned containers directly to the customer’s door. The company’s cultured breast milk is intended to offer families a more nutritious and more sustainable option for feeding babies than current dairy-based infant supplements.

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Safe, Effective and Sustainable Crop Protection with Biological Peptides

Safe, Effective and Sustainable Crop Protection with Biological Peptides

Safe, Effective and Sustainable Crop Protection with Biological Peptides

Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection, providing growers with novel, effective chemistries that address proven targets while also being to humans, birds, fish, pollinators and the environment. The company is dedicated to improving the safety, efficacy and sustainability of crop protection by displacing our reliance on conventional synthetic pesticides with biological peptides. Vestaron’s first peptide, SPEAR®, was the winner of both the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award and the 2020 EPA Green Chemistry Award for novel biocontrol solutions.

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Sentera: Better Data, Better Ag Outcomes: Optimizing In-Season Decisions for Farmers

Sentera: Better Data, Better Ag Outcomes: Optimizing In-Season Decisions for Farmers

Sentera: Better Data, Better Ag Outcomes: Optimizing In-Season Decisions for Farmers

Sentera’s FieldAgent™ platform helps advisors, agronomists, and producers gather data, develop insights, and take action to optimize outcomes. The cloud-based system delivers concise reports with quick access to satellite, drone, weather, field operations data, and issue detection that gives users the knowledge they need to produce the best results. During this practical look at model-based crop scouting, you will learn how to leverage data to drive agronomic decisions and improve economic outcomes.

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Boost Biomes: Harnessing the Full Potential of Microbiomes: New Approaches to Crop Protection

Boost Biomes: Harnessing the Full Potential of Microbiomes: New Approaches to Crop Protection

Boost Biomes: Harnessing the Full Potential of Microbiomes: New Approaches to Crop Protection

Boost Biomes is developing novel microbial crop protection products with improved reliability and effectiveness relative to microbial products developed using traditional approaches. Its proprietary discovery platform uses high-throughput DNA sequencing, selective enrichment and advanced informatics to identify microbial products with important commercial roles. This approach is faster and less expensive than traditional approaches and uniquely identifies multi-microbial products which are often more effective than single microbe products. Its first products will manage diseases of high-value crops, increase overall yield and extend the shelf-life of fruit and vegetables after harvest.

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Beta Hatch: Bugs in the System – How Insect Farming Can Add Resilience to the Supply Chain

Beta Hatch: Bugs in the System – How Insect Farming Can Add Resilience to the Supply Chain

Beta Hatch: Bugs in the System – How Insect Farming Can Add Resilience to the Supply Chain

In order to meet the $8B protein gap that’s expected by 2025, Beta Hatch is growing mealworms to feed the world’s farmed animals and fish, replacing protein and fat in these diets and producing quality organic fertilizer in a virtually zero waste system. Its proprietary process can use a huge range of inputs, including mycotoxin contaminated feedstocks that would otherwise go to landfill or be diluted in the supply chain. The Beta Hatch technology portfolio includes a combination of genetic technology, diets, processes and equipment and the company is currently building what will be the largest mealworm producing facility for animal feed in North America.

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