Indianapolis-based The Bee Corp has received its second investment from IU Ventures. The company, which has developed technology to determine the health of beehives, says it will use the $125,000 from the IU Angel Network to enhance its technology and bring it to new markets.... Read More
The Purdue University Board of Trustees has approved $20 million for a new phenotyping greenhouse facility. Additionally, the board approved new metrics to measure President Mitch Daniels' performance for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.... Read More
Crawfordsville-based agricultural cooperative Ceres Solutions is planning to invest in United Prairie LLC, an agricultural supply business in Illinois. In the proposed purchase, Ceres Solutions would become a 20% owner of the company.... Read More
A 30-year veteran of human and animal health is the guest this week on the Ag+Bio+Science podcast presented by AgriNovus Indiana.... Read More
Four Purdue University researchers have been awarded a total of $143,000 in grants from the Trask Innovative Fund. Two of the projects are aimed at improving corn, the other focuses on an affordable, cancer screening technique.... Read More
A monthly measurement of farmer sentiment of the agricultural economy is starting 2022 on a downward path... Read More
Exactly one year since the merger of two Indiana agricultural cooperatives became official, the new organization announced plans to relocate from Avon to Indianapolis... Read More
An Indiana based agtech company is making it possible for growers to know what beehive health looks like ahead of that first step. Details in this week’s episode of the Ag+Bio+Science podcast.... Read More
The South Bend City Council this week gave a positive recommendation for two tax abatements that could build the northern Indiana city into a major hydroponic produce market in the nation’s heartland.... Read More
Tim Hassinger is no stranger to Indiana agriculture after having worked for Dow Agrosciences in Indianapolis for more than three decades, including a three-year stint as chief executive officer... Read More
Indiana was one of 12 states to grow record corn and soybean crops last year, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ... Read More
AgriNovus Indiana Chief Executive Officer Mitch Frazier says over the past two years, the entire world focused on the food supply chain as it faced multiple challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic... Read More
Two startups founded by Purdue University alumni have each received $100,000 from the Purdue Ag-Celerator fund. The university says Insignum AgTech and Verility Inc. will use the funding to commercialize and scale their agricultural ventures.... Read More
A fourth-generation farmer and his wife from LaPorte County were just named winners of the Young Farmers & Ranchers Achievement Award competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s National Convention in Atlanta. ... Read More
Jasper-based Farbest Foods Inc. is in the midst of a nearly $13 million expansion of its plant in Huntingburg. The turkey processing company is adding more than 22,000 to its deboning room, which it says will streamline the deboning process and improve output.... Read More
John Deere, the world’s largest farm equipment maker, unveiled a fully autonomous tractor at the Consumer Electronics Show 2022 in Las Vegas. ... Read More
For just the second time in 2021, farmer sentiment of the agricultural economy improved over the previous month. ... Read More
The former chief executive officer of Dow Agrosciences has been named CEO and president of agriculture tech company IntelinAir Inc. ... Read More
North Manchester-based egg producer MPS Egg Farms has broken ground on a facility that the company says will produce the world’s first carbon-neutral, cage-free eggs for The Kroger Co. ... Read More
The Great Resignation has resulted in millions of Americans leaving their jobs, and sometimes the workers are leaving jobs without a new job secured. ... Read More
