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Innovator Spotlight: Wexus Technologies, Empowering Farmers with Data-Driven Insights
By Leanna Sweha
Wexus Technologies empowers farmers, food processors and others to save money and time by being more energy efficient. Its IoT platform analyzes utility usage and billing data in real time to drive…
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Soon We’ll Use Smartphones to Trace Our Food on the Blockchain. But There’s a Catch: We’ll Be Traced Too.
By Jessica McKenzie in The New Food Economy
Foodies interested in the provenance of their groceries may have to give up something in return: their privacy.
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How Precision Dairying Milks Cows for Data–Not Just Dairy Products
By Matthew Stuber, Gary Kazmer, Shalabh Gupta, and Steven Zinn in The New Food Economy
This new technology could help farmers understand how an individual cow’s activities—eating, standing, resting, milking—affects her milk production, milk quality and health.
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FOOD IT: The Full Stack – An event stacked to the brim with great discussion on food and agriculture innovation
Over 300 attendees gathered at the fifth annual Mixing Bowl Food IT conference for an interactive discussion of the “digital full stack solution” for new food and agriculture products and services. The Mixing Bowl’s Rob Trice…
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The Business of Agriculture
Originally from the Sacramento Business Journal.
The Sacramento Business Journal held a roundtable discussion on May 11 featuring panel experts and a moderator who discussed the business of agriculture, the challenges, the opportunities and what’s ahead for this multibillion dollar…
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The Race in the Field: Imports, Machines, and Migrants
By Philip L. Martin published in California Agriculture
Four ways farmers are responding to the tightening labor market.
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Innovator Spotlight: Athena Intelligence – An Advocate for the Acre
By Leanna Sweha
The VINE (The Verde Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship) mission is to help sustainable food and agriculture innovators access the connections and resources they need to build, launch and grow their innovations. As a part of…
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Female Farmers Struggle to Work and Take Care of Children. And No One’s Really Talking About It
By Danielle Beurteau published in The New Food Economy
Across the country, the newest generation of female farmers is discovering that having children can redefine their relationship to farm work. Danielle Beurteau for The New Food Economy
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Startups Focus on the Microbiome As An Organic Solution to Increase Crop Yields
By Jonathan Shieber published in TechCrunch
One of the multi-billion dollar problems facing the world these days is how to grow more food…
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Growers Get Labor-saving Ideas at UC Grape Day
By Pamela Kim-Rice published in UCANR Blog
Will machines replace the romance of the hand-cultivated wine grape vineyard?
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