COLUMBIA, Mo. — A soy-based chicken substitute developed by Fu-Hung Hsieh, a professor of biological engineering at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, will soon be manufactured just a few miles from where it was developed.
Savage River Farms, a Maryland-based company that specializes in healthy food products, announced it will open a 16,000-square-foot production facility in northeast Columbia that will go online this fall. It will employ 60 people and represents a $5 million investment by the company.
Founder Ethan Brown licensed the technology from MU in 2009. The. . .