Minnesota has been innovating in food and agriculture for over 150 years from farm to fork. The state is home to six Fortune 500 companies in food and agriculture, a major land grant university with leading industry researchers, many commodities and specialty crops,...
The Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, or AURI, works to foster long-term economic benefit for Minnesota through value-added agricultural products. Its 2019 New Uses Forum is dedicated to the idea of accelerating innovation and investment. The forum brings...
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) works in partnership with Minnesota food and beverage companies on business and market development opportunities to increase the use of Minnesota agricultural ingredients, create and protect jobs, and promote economic...
This guest post is published at Techstars. To learn more, please visit the Techstars website. 2018 – The Results Our first Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator Class, in partnership with Cargill and Ecolab, completed our first program this past October. Applications...
The first Food | Ag | Ideas Week (FAI) in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota featured 5 days of individually ticketed panel and speaker sessions, structured networking and meet + eat networking lunches, and signature events led by Grow North and its partners to...
In October 2018, 14,000+ attendees convened in Minneapolis-Saint Paul for WE18, the world’s largest conference for women engineers. It was inspiring to see people from all over the country, and even the world, take over the Minneapolis Convention Center for...
