Continuum Ag

THE PROBLEM Quantifiable soil health data and standards are lacking. This gap creates uncertainty in how to achieve soil improvements and perpetuates lack of upside for growers.  If standardized and benchmarked, soil health can provide a foundation for farm productivity, land value, crop premiums, and sustainable sourcing. THE SOLUTION Continuum Ag’s software imports soil data from many different sources and converts to universal format so that it can then benchmark metrics such as nutrients, organic matter, and CO2 for different geographies, soil types, and cropping systems.  Not only does this capability quantify soil health, it identifies ...

Croplife 100 - MFA

Dennis Bork

CoverCress/Clarkson

Intrinsyx Bio

At Intrinsyx Bio, we are commercializing 3 decades of the leading academic research in the plant microbiome. Our endophytic microbes cause crop plants, grasses, ornamental plants, and trees to fix Nitrogen (N2) directly from the atmosphere into ammonia which helps improve nutrient use efficiency, supplement synthetic fertilizer requirements, and increase chlorophyll.  These microbes live in leaves, stems, roots and don't require a nodule.  Our endophyte microbes also mobilize insoluble phosphorus (P2) from soil into roots, as well as increased drought and salt tolerances.

Lynn Clarkson

Clarkson Grain

MFA: Mainstreaming Precision Ag Services

Nanospy

The breakthrough biosensor is here. ​NO time-consuming bacteria enrichment process. NO environmentally hazardous reagents. NO laboratory requirements. Welcome to NanoSpy Rapid Pathogen Detection Biosensors NanoSpy’s state-of-the-art biofunctionalized nanomaterials create a new biosensor platform and a new paradigm in pathogen detection.  Sensitivity, specificity, and speed now are combined in one convenient test.  Detect a specifically targeted pathogen in CFU/mL in less than 20 minutes.   would like to meet with Jonathan Claussen, - pending

Neogen

Rapid tests for deoxynivalenol (a.k.a., DON and vomitoxin) from Neogen® can screen a wide variety of grain and grain product samples at 1 ppm, or provide fully quantitative results in the range of 25 to 250 ppb (high sensitivity test), or 0.25 to 5 ppm. Deoxynivalenol (DON) is most commonly produced by the pink mold Fusarium graminearum. DON, a member of the trichothecene family, is produced by fungi living on cereal commodities such as wheat, corn, barley and ensilages. The toxicological effects attributed to DON include: nausea (vomiting), feed refusal, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, immuno-suppression and blood disorders. Neogen provides several DON (...

Ostara

THE OSTARA SOLUTION Ostara’s nutrient recovery solutions are transforming resource recovery— closing the loop on a broken cycle. In addition to the cost benefit of recovering nuisance nutrients, the solution helps protect local waterways from nutrient pollution at a time when clean water, food security, fertilizer runoff, and growing populations are issues for communities around the globe.   would like to meet Molly Biedenfeld

Plastomics

Plastomics is a biotechnology startup using chloroplast genetic engineering to develop the next generation of high performing crops.