Ames startup Farmers Risk receives $50,000 investment from Ag Startup Engine

Ames-based startup Farmers Risk has received an initial $50,000 investment from Ag Startup Engine. Farmers Risk’s mission is to democratize the tools available to help farmers manage risk and create more predictable revenue on the farm. Farmers Risk has built software...

Pivot Bio Raises $430 Million to Replace Synthetic Fertilizers in Agriculture

NEWS PROVIDED BY Pivot Bio Jul 19, 2021, 07:45 ET   The company launches its second-generation nitrogen product to increase farm productivity and deliver improved sustainability – The company tripled its revenue in 2021, providing farmers a breakthrough...

Less runoff, more predictable performance: Pivot Bio touts benefits of nitrogen-producing microbes

By Michael Crumb, Senior Staff Writer Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:16 AM                                                                                                                                                                                                      ...

Iowa State Economic Development and Industry Relations Announces Patrick Klepcyk as the Director, Office of Innovation Commercialization and President, Iowa State Research Foundation

AMES, Iowa (June 28, 2021) –Iowa State University Office of Economic Development and Industry Relations today announced Patrick Klepcyk as the Director, Office of Innovation Commercialization (OIC) and President of the Iowa State Research Foundation (ISURF). Klepcyk...

Mazen Animal Health, Inc. Announces Successful Sow Study: Lactogenic Immunity Demonstrated after Oral Vaccination

Ames, IA. June 16, 2021. Mazen today announced the successful completion of a sow study designed to demonstrate lactogenic immunity induced protection in newborn pigs after oral vaccination against porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, (PEDv). The company is developing...

Business Record honors BrokerTech Ventures, Kevin Maher in 2021 innovationIOWA Magazine awards

By Business Record Staff The Business Record recognizes BrokerTech Ventures as the Corteva Agriscience innovationLEADER of the Year, and VetMeasure Inc. founder and CEO Kevin Maher as the innovationENTREPRENEUR of the Year. Maher and BrokerTech Ventures will be...

Iowa community colleges, CIRAS announce statewide manufacturing technology consortium

By: Jake Slobe of Clay & Milk   Iowa’s community colleges and Iowa State University’s Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) are partnering on a new consortium that will support the manufacturing sector in adapting to “Industry 4.0”—the automation...

Skroot Laboratory Inc. spins off from Iowa State research, helps labs make medicine

AMES, Iowa – It’s necessary work for a cell factory, but monitoring cell growth in small flasks is labor intensive and risks contaminating cell cultures. It can be a bit of lab drudgery, too. “I did this often in graduate school,” said Nigel Reuel, an Iowa State...

Registration Open for 2021 Iowa Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics Conference

AMES, Iowa (April 8th, 2021) – Registration is now open for the 2021 Iowa Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics Virtual Conference presented by Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and BioConnect Iowa. The conference will take place on May 12th and 13th from...

Agricultural and biosystems engineering graduate program ranked among the best

AMES, Iowa (March 31st, 2021) – It has been a tug-of-war for the top spot among the graduate programs in biological/agricultural engineering ranked by U.S. News and World Report magazine. Two years ago the programs at Iowa State and Indiana’s Purdue University tied...