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Oct 8, 2025

Seed2Grow Spotlight: Verdia Diagnostics’ Zach Hetzler

A recent NC State Ph.D. graduate, Hetzler leads a university startup company out to improve the way farmers detect and diagnose plant diseases. 
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Oct 2, 2025

N.C. PSI Welcomes Three Companies to Innovation Hub

Albaugh LLC, Mosaic Biosciences and Terrana Biosciences have joined 15 other companies in the Innovation Hub, designed to spark new partnerships and ideas among industry representatives, university researchers and students. 
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Sep 23, 2025

Mark Your Calendar for CALS Wolfpack Harvest

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is launching a new fall tradition with Wolfpack Harvest, an event designed to bring together alumni, students, faculty and friends of the college to celebrate everything that makes CALS special. 
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Sep 15, 2025

N.C. PSI Selected as Technical Partner in National Effort to Catalyze AgTech Innovation

The H.A.R.V.E.S.T. AgTech program provides emerging agricultural technology companies with technical resources and direct funding opportunities. 
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Sep 12, 2025

From Crop Science to Computer Science

A passion for growing plants has led software developer Steve Amerige to pursue a doctorate in crop science with an eye toward helping advance the next wave of ag tech. 
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Sep 9, 2025

Study Finds Positive Effects From Some Climate-Smart Ag Practices

No-till farming, cover crops and residue retention can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study using a suite of models. 
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Sep 7, 2025

Seed2Grow Spotlight: Soteria Formulation’s Tahira Pirzada

NC State scientists came up with an ingenious way to use agricultural leftovers to boost crop performance in Africa. Their startup company, Soteria Formulations, is now taking the technology global, with CEO and NC State research scholar Tahira Pirzada leading the way. 
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Sep 2, 2025

Startups Invited to Compete for Ag Tech Incubator Space

Entrepreneurs looking for a place to grow their early-stage ag tech companies are invited to compete for a year’s worth of free, state-of-the-art office and lab space in a leading hub for plant sciences innovation. 
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Aug 14, 2025

Grad Students Dig Into AI for Ag

NC State’s GRAD-AID for Ag program got off to a great start this summer in preparing a future-proof workforce at the intersection of plant science and artificial intelligence, 
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Aug 13, 2025

Growing N.C. Agriculture, One Startup at a Time

Through its Seed2Grow program, the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative helps budding entrepreneurs who want to turn scientific ideas into real-world agricultural solutions.