Farmers visiting the Benson Hill booth at the 2024 Farm Progress Show may have chatted with Dan Cosgrove. If so, they discovered how Benson Hill hopes to reinvent common soybeans as higher-value, differentiated products.
“Our goal is better feed, better food and better fuel through better seed,” says Cosgrove, chief administrative officer and general counsel for Benson Hill, based in St. Louis. “We’re finding quality traits through proprietary methods using AI technology and gene editing with non-GMO soybeans. Later, we will add herbicide tolerance to specific varieties.”
Benson Hill is betting its future on the ability to find unique traits that will bring more value to standard crops. The company’s mission is to do this more quickly than in traditional breeding programs. Read more here!