Meet the women-run Saint Paul startup taking a novel approach to agriculture.
Founded in 2019, Jord BioScience provides custom solutions designed to optimize plant growth.
Jord, named after the Norse goddess of Earth, keeps 6,000 microbes that can be combined with fertilizers and the like to improve plant performance and consistency.
The business-to-business company collaborates with big-name seed, biological, and chemical companies like Corteva Agriscience, BASF, Syngenta, and Bayer. Jord generated revenue for the first time in 2022 and has hit key milestones in field trials with clients, though it hasn’t yet received full commercialization approval.