Barbara Bessy was featured in an article today about the Willamette Valley Bioscience Industry Consortium. She told them all about the great stuff that was happening to help coordinate and promote bioscience. Way to go Barbara!

Larry Plotkin a member of the WVBIC, CEO and Founder of Precision Plant Systems, Inc. did a master-full job yesterday at the Bend Venture conference. The competition was stiff and yet he was able to convince the judges that his CropIQ system and business was worth supporting to the tune of the $120,000 cash prize. A lot of hard work went into the presentation and the entire Precision Plant Team is to be congratulated. Precision Plant Systems, Inc. is a resident client of the regional business… Continue

The Oregon Way...the governor has attempted to provide a system and process to achieve accountability and transparency over all the ARRA money coming to Oregon. A lot of great information is on the web site but the first energy deadline is tomorrow April 15th. It is a shame that those submitting, at least us, were unable to have our form sent through the web site as required. Our IT folks assured us that the error was NOT on our end. We ended up using snail mail to get the submission post… Continue

Is it possible that Linn and Benton County can work together along with OSU, a local non profit, a couple of cities and a couple of private start up companies to create a novel and innovative solution for a renewable energy source? Stay tuned because it seems a possibility if the State of Oregon and Department of Energy are really serious about job creation and novel renewable energy solutions. The feedstock would be algae. The two private companies would be Bioalgene and OrAgrow. Both… Continue

Today, the big 3 of Vermiculture in Mid Willamette Valley, met to discuss the possibility of having a commercial reactor solving some of the problems that the populace of Marion County may be facing. This is a problem that the knowledgeable are seeking solutions for and yet most folks don't read about it, hear about it, understand it, care about it or even suspect that their precious tax dollars are going to be under utilized trying to solve it. The problem of wet waste going to the burner and… Continue