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Boost Your Late-Season Crops with StrongSoil: Harnessing the Power of Biologicals in Late Summer and Fall
Enhance your farming practices this summer and fall with StrongSoil. Learn about the benefits of this biological product, including improved soil health and increased yields.
Revolutionize Your Farming Practices with StrongSoil
After 5 years of development and testing, we are excited to share the results of StrongSoil.
CHONEX CTO Sofia Andreola selected as 2022 Women to Watch Honoree by Birmingham Business Journal
CHONEX CTO Sofia Andreola, PhD, Selected was announced as one of the Birmingham Business Journal’s 2022 Women to Watch honorees.
This annual award highlights women who have emerged as key leaders in their companies or organizations, have potential to shape the future of Birmingham's business world and are primed to make a significant impact in the Birmingham business community.
Birmingham-based Chonex raises $5.78M in seed round funding
Chonex receives $5.78M in seed funding to expand production capacity for its biological fertilizer StrongSoil.
Alabama AgTech Innovator Offers Alternative to Skyrocketing Fertilizer Prices
Fertilizer prices have risen about 100 percent in the past year. STRONGSOIL allows farmers to save money by cutting fertilizer use and still maintain yields. Graph: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index by Commodity: Chemicals and Allied Products: Fertilizer Materials [WPU0652], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0652, April 21, 2022.
2022’s Shitshow Highlights the Need for More Manure Tech
Manure tech is massively underhyped, but that’s going to change in the coming months and years. Why? Let’s dig in.
Fertilizer prices are out of control.
Firstly, the major news right now is that fertilizer prices are soaring – and there’s no real relief in sight.
BIO Alabama Approves New Board Members
BIO Alabama is excited to welcome one new director and three new executive committee members. Our new board director is Roger Graben, PhD. Vivek Lal, MD; Michael Lynch, founder and CEO of CHONEX; and Amy Sturdivant will join the executive committee.
StrongSoil Lab and Field Trials Show Promising Results
StrongSoil lab and field trials show promising results for Chonex. Read more in this feature article in Future Farmer Magazine.
Alabama Farmers and Companies Shine at American Farm Bureau Convention
After meeting virtually last year, farmers from 50 states and Puerto Rico welcomed the opportunity to fellowship and share ideas at the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Convention in Atlanta Jan. 7-11.
At the closing session, two Alabama companies, CHONEX and Caravan Tech LLC, received $10,000 each as Top 10 finalists in the AFBF Ag Innovation Challenge. CHONEX has developed a patented process for producing organic fertilizer called StrongSoil, while recycling poultry litter.
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.”
Celebrating and Elevating Ag Entrepreneurs with Emma Larson
On this episode of Farm Credit MidAtlantic, Katie Ward interviews Emma Larson, Assistant Director of Industry Relations at American Farm Bureau. Emma grew up on her family's farm in California and made her way to Washington, D.C. to begin her career advocating for America’s farmers and ranchers.
Emma leads the Ag Innovation Challenge, a national business competition that showcases American startups developing innovative solutions that address challenges facing farmers and rural communities. Listen to this episode as we get to know the top 10 Ag Innovation Challenge semi-finalists and talk about how these entrepreneurs are changing the agricultural industry for the better.
CHONEX on StartupBREW Fargo Podcast: Creating a Sustainable Future in Farming
Michael Lynch, CEO and founder of CHONEX, and John Mascoe of Leaftech Ag led the Ag Tech Talk on StartupBREW Fargo, a weekly event on Wednesday mornings from 8:30am - 9:30am to learn, support, and inspire. This morning meetup is for entrepreneurs, innovators, creatives, and community members alike to come together and explore the entrepreneurial journey.
This event is built on the notion that entrepreneurs do better when they have access to each other and the greater community that supports them. Entrepreneurship is energized over brews - coffee, tea, beer, or others. Connection over coffee has been at the center of energizing our community, which is where the name StartupBREW came from.
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