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Innovator Spotlight: Caroline Cotto of Renewal Mill on the Upcycled Food Movement and the Next Generation of Ingredients That Are Leading the Way
Renewal Mill, a Bay Area food ingredients company that upcycles the byproduct leftover from soy milk production, is at the forefront of the food waste movement. Its current focus is okara, the wet pulp-like substance that’s left…
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Innovator Spotlight: Maas Energy Works, Providing Renewable Energy, Economic and Environmental Benefits in the California Dairy Industry
Maas Energy Works develops, owns, and operates anaerobic manure digesters which produce methane that is turned into electricity and compressed natural gas. Maas harnesses this “cow power” in partnership with dairies and other commercial facilities. Sixteen of…
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Innovator Spotlight: Tobias Peggs of Square Roots on Their Platform to Empower the Next Generation of Farmers
By Wes Melville
Tobias Peggs is the CEO of Square Roots, an urban farming company based in Brooklyn, NY with a mission to bring local, real food to people in cities around the world by…
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Innovator Spotlight: PowWow, Water Management Made Easy
The technology developed by PowWow in collaboration with the University of California was deployed at an almond orchard near Davis part of a 6,000 acre deployment in 2018. Names from left to right: Stanley Knutson, Director of Software Development at PowWow,…
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Pharm Robotics
Pharm Robotics is an agtech startup that is developing a robotic injection system for the dairy business. Its goal is to help dairy farmers deal with labor shortages and become more economically sustainable…
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Innovator Spotlight: Solving Food Waste and Food Insecurity
Maen Mahfoud, Founder and CEO of the food rescue tech non-profit Replate, started Replate in 2016 while a student at UCB. Maen was inspired to start Replate when he realized that food insecurity…
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Innovation Institute for Food and Health 2019 Innovator Summit Hosts a Lively Panel Discussion on Indoor Agriculture
Michael Rose of The Mixing Bowl and Better Food Ventures moderated a fascinating discussion on indoor agriculture at the Innovation Institute for Food and Health…
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Innovation Institute for Food and Health 2019 Innovator Summit Serves up a Compelling Panel Discussion on Food Waste & Innovative Solutions to this Global Problem
The Innovation Institute for Food and Health at UC Davis develops and deploys breakthrough solutions to global issues across the food system through industry-academic collaborations and experiential learning programs.
The…
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InSight Labs – From Quality Control for Breweries to Tomato Processors This Non-invasive, Real-time Food Analysis Solution is Ready to Shake Up the Food System
InSight Labs uses a combination of spectroscopy and chemometric analysis to identify and measure food quality characteristics. InSight Labs’ technology can replace more expensive, time-consuming and destructive analysis methods with real-time, actionable information at multiple levels of the…
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From Drones and Mining to Tractors and Farming, Persistence Data Mining (PDM) Applies Their Hyperspectral Imaging and Data Technology to Solving Soil Health Issues
Persistence Data Mining (PDM) is a software analytics firm that uses hyperspectral imaging to measure soil nutrients.
PDM’s technology can increase producer profits while reducing fertilizer overuse, which is a major cause…
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