Healthier crops. Brighter future.

Creating cleaner pest control solutions, promoting better health for our crops, plates, and planet.

Cleaner Crop Protection

At Agragene, we are driven to provide growers with effective biological crop pest control solutions that reduce dependence on pesticides, chemicals, and radiation.

Healthier Returns

Our exclusive Precision-Guided Sterile Insect Technology (pgSIT) provides environment and plate-friendly pest control to help enhance growth of crops, yields, and profits.

Precise, Targeted Technology

Our innovative gene-editing platform proactively reduces and controls pest population, preserving crop yield.

Recent News

AGRAGENE SELECTED FOR USDA GRAND CHALLENGE AND FFAR GRANTS TO COMBAT NEW WORLD SCREWWORM

Side View of New World Screwworm - courtesy of USDA St. Louis (June 25, 2026) – Agragene announces funding from the USDA New World Screwworm Grand Challenge and from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. The grants were awarded through competitive processes by both USDA and FFAR with the former involving hundreds of submissions. Both grants are designed to facilitate additional research on the company’s novel insect sterility technology. Agragene uses precision-gui

Jun 252 min read

Lupe looking at KNOCKOUT-SWD parents under the microscope.

H.A.R.V.E.S.T. AgTech is giving four local start-ups a big boost

The global innovation incubator is supporting seven companies pursuing innovations that can help cut back on chemical inputs in agriculture. by Eric Schmid April 16, 2026 St. Louis-based companies pursuing cutting-edge agricultural innovation are leading the way in a new program designed to incubate novel technology in that space. Four of the seven companies in H.A.R.V.E.S.T. AgTech ’s inaugural cohort, announced Thursday morning, are based in the Ga

Apr 175 min read

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