Chonex/StrongSoil Joins HudsonAlpha Campus
The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is excited to welcome Chonex to its campus this fall.
Chonex, dba StrongSoil, is a soil health company that restores health to degraded soil by adding microbes that are essential to higher yields and growing nutrient-dense crops with fewer chemical inputs.
“To improve the human condition around the world is core to our mission at HudsonAlpha,” said Alex Cate, Director of Entrepreneurship Programs for HudsonAlpha. “This is one of the reasons we are so glad to welcome our newest associate company to campus, Chonex. Their work with regenerating topsoil is a clear fit with HudsonAlpha’s research focus on sustainable agriculture.”
Recycling Nutrients for More Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Health
When it comes to sustainability in agriculture, there’s more to chicken waste than you might think. Chonex, a nutrient recycling company focused on poultry manure, converts chicken manure into its product, StrongSoil, which helps restore soil health.
With Prosperity Fund Help, Startup CHONEX Aims to Turn Waste Into Profit
Corey Tyree, Ph.D., Southern Research’s director of strategic growth initiatives and a co-founder of The Prosperity Fund, said CHONEX’s technology not only has commercial potential but also addresses several problems facing the agriculture industry today.
For one thing, the industry needs sustainable and more efficient methods to produce protein since most soybeans, one-third of all grains, and a large portion of caught wild seafood go to make animal feed. At the same time, egg producers need new sources of organic protein.