Let’s wrap things up with our Video of the Week. Last episode, we toured the TerraMax facility, today we’re stopping by the 39 North ag tech innovation hub in St. Louis, where more than 35 growing companies call home. Let’s check it out. 

“One of the reasons we wanted to create this coworking space is that, prior to this being opened in June of 2024, there wasn’t really this neutral-ground space for companies to come and have meetings or for people to co-work and run into people serendipitously. What we’ve found over the last year that we’ve been in operation here at The Hub is that folks really enjoy that random connection, like, ‘Oh, I don’t know who’s going to be in the coworking space today, but whoever it is, I might strike up a conversation.”

“Then you have these cool interdisciplinary interactions. A company working on biologicals, a company working on precision ag or gene editing, talking about issues they see or solutions they’ve found or relationships they’ve built with farmers or marketing folks or other backend services to help their business run that you wouldn’t find elsewhere, because you’re in isolation in your own company or in your own lab. As we think about plant science and agtech becoming more interdisciplinary, it seems like more and more of these relationships and conversations need to be happening, and this is a great place to do that without having to spend a lot of your own energy building these relationships yourself.”

Watch the full version of this episode of Conservation Ag Update.