by vine-admin | Aug 29, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories
By Brian Barth in Modern Farmer Leah Penniman is an American anomaly: black, female, and a farmer. Her primary focus involves fighting what she considers a far more common, yet more subtly brutal, form of oppression. “Corporations, and white folks, in particular,...
by vine-admin | Aug 28, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Innovator Spotlight, Technology
By Leanna Sweha Sunnyvale-based WISRAN helps improve ag machinery and labor utilization efficiency, resulting in a potential 2 to 5 percent boost in revenues. WISRAN won the 2015 UC Davis Big Bang Competition award for innovation in food and, a Rabobank-MIT Innovation...
by vine-admin | Aug 21, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories
As a kid I loved to draw cities of the future that were in the sky with gardens and homes far above the ground. Perhaps this is one reason that I am a huge fan of vertical farming and its potential. In addition to it being a childhood dream, it also makes a lot of...
by vine-admin | Aug 21, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories
George Washington, the father of our country, said it well when he proclaimed he grew “crops to eat and sell” and “crops to replenish the soil.” Generations of farmers follow his footsteps. Cover crops (also known as green manures) are plants primarily grown for the...
by vine-admin | Aug 21, 2018 | Featured Stories
School food service is a multibillion dollar industry that impacts the lives of over 30 million (mostly) low-income students. Every school day and, with increasing frequency, during summer weekdays as well, this industry provides two-thirds of students’ meals...
