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AgriNovus Indiana announces winner of HungerTech Innovation Challenge

Raquel Bahamonde2022-07-22T06:58:10-04:00July 21, 2022|

INDIANAPOLIS (July 21, 2022) — AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit focused on growing the agbioscience economy, today announced Bloomington, Ind.-based Civic Champs won its HungerTech Innovation Challenge, scoring the company $25,000 to help advance their tech-enabled food security product. In partnership with Elevance Health, the HungerTech Innovation Challenge sought innovators to develop new technologies and profitable business models to improve access to nutrition, simplify online transactions and unlock free delivery for food-insecure Americans served by the more than $100 billion annual Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). “The technologies, business models and delivery systems that teams concepted in the HungerTech Innovation Challenge offer an inspiring view into how technology and innovation can connect food supply to those in need,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. “We look forward to working with the Civic Champs team to advance their technology, [...]

New AgriNovus Indiana study identifies tech, business models as key areas of innovation to improve federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Raquel Bahamonde2022-07-18T09:36:28-04:00July 14, 2022|

INDIANAPOLIS (July 14, 2022) — AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, released a study today identifying the need for technology and new business models to improve the $100+ billion annual federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Authored by national food policy expert and Snee Family Endowed Chair at Baylor University, Dr. Craig Gundersen, the study, Leveraging Technology to Improve Food Insecurity, identifies challenges hindering SNAP recipients and recommends adoption of technologies and process improvements to help food-insecure Americans. “SNAP is a critical safety net for millions of Americans,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. “This new research provides data and key recommendations to inspire innovators to bring new approaches to better connect food supply to those who are food insecure.” Key recommendations identified in the study include: Identifying ways to eliminate delivery costs [...]

AgriNovus Indiana launches HungerTech Innovation Challenge to improve food access

Raquel Bahamonde2022-05-19T10:16:45-04:00May 17, 2022|

INDIANAPOLIS (May 17, 2022) — AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, launched a challenge today to inspire innovation that better serves food insecure people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), an approximately $100 billion federal program through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In partnership with Anthem, the HungerTech Innovation Challenge creates an opportunity for companies, entrepreneurs, students and innovators to compete for a $25,000 grand prize by developing new technologies and models to enable SNAP recipients to purchase groceries online and receive the products regardless of location. “Food deserts have long been defined by proximity to a retail grocer; our ambition with the HungerTech Innovation Challenge is to inspire the creation of new technologies and systems that make physical location no longer a barrier,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus. [...]

AgriNovus Indiana’s career exploration platform, Field Atlas, announces spring class of student ambassadors

Raquel Bahamonde2022-01-25T09:57:18-05:00January 25, 2022|

INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 25, 2022) – AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit initiative focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, announced today its spring 2022 class of Field Atlas ambassadors to spark conversation about the agbiosciences on college and university campuses across the state. Field Atlas ambassadors are college students selected to serve as the on-campus connection between students, professionals and academic advisors and the Field Atlas career exploration platform (MyFieldAtlas.com). The ambassadors will provide information about fields of study, traditional and allied career paths in the agbioscience industry and companies offering those opportunities across the state. Additionally, ambassadors connect peers to real-time internship, entry-level and early career opportunities via the Job Board (Jobs.AgriNovusIndiana.com). For the 2022 spring semester, Field Atlas has selected these students to represent the program: Baylee Dwenger – Senior, Hanover College Baylee Fidler – Freshman, Vincennes University Julia Hamblen – [...]

AgriNovus Indiana announces additions to its Board of Directors

Raquel Bahamonde2021-12-04T06:04:19-05:00November 30, 2021|

INDIANAPOLIS (Nov. 30, 2021) — AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative to fuel growth in Indiana’s agbioscience economy, announced today several additions to its board of directors. The board unanimously approved new seats for the following: Brian Anderson, director of economic development, Wabash Valley Power Alliance Anna Haldewang, founder and CEO, InsightTRAC Ambassador Kip Tom, formerly of the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (Rome, Italy) Former AgriNovus board chair, Aaron Schacht, was also approved for an at-large seat representing Elanco’s recent carve-out focused on a microbiome research and development platform. A name for this independent biopharmaceutical company has not yet been released. "AgriNovus has a bold ambition to fuel growth across Indiana's agbioscience economy - from agtech and animal health to plant science and value-added food," said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. "The leaders joining our board add [...]

AgriNovus Indiana announces winner of 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge

Raquel Bahamonde2021-09-23T08:03:28-04:00September 22, 2021|

INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 22, 2021) — AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, today announced Regrow from Durhman, N.H. as the winning team of its Producer-Led Innovation Challenge, awarding them $25,000 provided by Purdue Foundry as well as professional services from The PLAID Agency and Sikich LLP. The Producer-Led Innovation Challenge, presented by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Indiana Soybean Alliance, was designed to inspire innovators to create software that makes it faster for farmers to aggregate complex data sets required to participate in Carbon markets, where companies purchase credits from farming operations that sequester Carbon. From tech startups to student teams, participants worked to create a solution that accomplished the following objectives: Ability to integrate years of multiple data sources from across farm operations to create a market-ready data set with minimal farmer manual data entry, [...]

AgriNovus Indiana announces changes, additions to its Board of Directors

Raquel Bahamonde2021-09-19T13:23:29-04:00September 15, 2021|

INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 15, 2021) — AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative to fuel growth in Indiana’s agbioscience economy, announced today several changes and additions to its board of directors. The board unaminously approved the addition of Paul Nselel, CEO of AgReliant Genetics, to the board in addition to the seat change of Kristin Bloink, vice president of Global Product Development at Elanco. Additionally, the organization’s Innovation Council was dissolved and members were integrated to board seats, including: Bryan Brackemyre – vice president of Member Services, Indiana Municipal Power Agency Nichole Like – president and CEO, The Pantheon Rebecca Schroeder – president, Whiteshire Hamroc Josh Trenary – executive director, Indiana Pork “AgriNovus has a bold ambition to fuel growth across Indiana’s agbioscience economy - from agtech and animal health to plant science and value-added food,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. [...]

AgriNovus Indiana’s career exploration platform, Field Atlas, announces fall class of student ambassadors

Raquel Bahamonde2021-09-08T11:38:38-04:00September 8, 2021|

INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 8, 2021) – AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit initiative focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, announced today its fall 2021 class of Field Atlas ambassadors to spark conversation about the agbiosciences on college and university campuses across the state. Field Atlas ambassadors are college students selected to serve as on-campus connectors between students, professors and academic advisors and the Field Atlas career exploration platform (MyFieldAtlas.com). The ambassadors will provide information about career paths, companies and fields of study in the agbioscience industry. For the 2021 fall semester, Field Atlas has selected these students to represent the program: Noah Berning – Sophomore, Purdue University Kailyn Cooksey – Sophomore, Indiana State University Maranda Elswick – Junior, Purdue University Sylvia Harris – Senior, Huntington University Carly Morris – Senior, Franklin College Gracie Whitaker – Sophomore, Purdue University – Fort Wayne “The peer [...]

AgriNovus Indiana launches Innovation Challenge to inspire tech to make carbon markets more accessible to farmers

Raquel Bahamonde2021-06-24T09:35:09-04:00June 24, 2021|

INDIANAPOLIS (June 23, 2021) — AgriNovus Indiana, the initiative to advance Indiana’s agbioscience economy, launched a $25,000 innovation challenge today for the tech community to solve a critical data gap that prevents farmers from participating in Carbon markets, where companies purchase credits from farming operations that sequester Carbon. Presented by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Indiana Soybean Alliance, the 2021 Producer-Led Innovation Challenge seeks to inspire innovators to create software to make it faster for farmers to aggregate the complex multi-year, multi-source data sets required to participate in Carbon markets. “Carbon markets are emerging as an opportunity to increase net farm income by paying Producers for stewardship of the land,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. “The Producer-Led Innovation Challenge empowers innovators with a Producer view of the current Carbon market challenge and provides a $25,000 grand [...]

AgriNovus Indiana launches Field Atlas Job Board

Raquel Bahamonde2021-05-16T13:29:28-04:00May 10, 2021|

Employers in the agbioscience sector now have the opportunity to reach high-level talent through the AgriNovus Indiana job board. In partnership with ISDA and Farm Credit Mid-America, the job board connects from early career to senior level talent to opportunities available in Indiana and with Indiana-based agbiosciences companies. “To continue growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, we must work together across our industry to attract the world-class talent Indiana companies need to fuel growth and innovation,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO, of AgriNovus. “The new AgriNovus job board provides Indiana’s first digital destination for agbioscience jobseekers and employers to find, post and search for agbioscience jobs – from internships to career positions.” Through talent development and Field Atlas work, employers within the sector and job-seekers have expressed interest in having a one-stop shop for agbioscience job opportunities. Launched in September 2020, Field Atlas [...]

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