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GRAND RAPIDS—The Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is hosting a webinar to introduce the state to agrovoltaics, the planting of food crops, pollinator habitats, and other vegetation underneath photovoltaic solar panels. …
DETROIT—Heartland Industries has won a three-year, $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to continue research in its “Hemp4Soil” program. This grant will allow …
ANN ARBOR—A new analysis of thousands of native and nonnative Michigan bees shows that the most diverse bee communities have the lowest levels of three common viral pathogens. University of …
MINNEAPOLIS—General Mills, the Minneapolis, Minn.-based maker of Yoplait, Liberté and Mountain High yogurt products, announced the start of a three-year regenerative dairy pilot in western Michigan, a key sourcing region …
LANSING–Neogen Corp. (Nasdaq: NEOG), the manufacturer of food and animal safety testing products, announced it had acquired Productos Quimicos Magiar, a distributor of Neogen’s food safety diagnostics for the past …
ANN ARBOR—A new study from the University of Michigan asserts that targets to reduce phosphorous outputs from the Detroit area to control toxic blooms of cyanobacteria in Lake Erie are …
LANSING—The Lansing-based food and animal safety testing developer Neogen Corp. (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced it has signed a development and licensing agreement with Boston-based Corvium Inc., that will allow Neogen’s customers …
ANN ARBOR—Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) Thursday announced the completion of construction at its new biotech research laboratory in Vietnam. The Ann Arbor-based company, which has spliced spider genes …
DETROIT—Bloomscape, a direct-to-consumer plant company based in downtown Detroit, announced $7.5 million in Series A funding. Washington, D.C.-based Revolution Ventures led the round with participation from New York City-based Endeavor …
DIMONDALE—The San Diego real estate firm Innovative Industrial Properties Inc. (NYSE: IIPR), which focuses on the regulated cannabis industry, announced that it entered into an amendment of the lease with …