Food innovation company Benson Hill says it more than doubled planted acres of its high protein soybean varieties this growing season, in part to keep up with growing demand for meat alternatives.  

Benson Hill CEO Matt Crisp tells Brownfield the company partnered with farmers to grow more than 70,000 acres of the company’s soybean varieties.  

“Just that alternative meat market is projected to be a $140 billion category over the course of this decade, that’s a pretty impressive number,” he said.

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