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Our Nation Needs to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence for Farm Tech
Melissa Brandao, a former Apple engineer, wanted to find ways to give back to her rural agricultural community in southern Oregon. Rather than traditional farming, though, she began designing robots to provide farmers with extra sets of eyes, ears and wheels…
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Innovator Spotlight: INPUTS – An Online Marketplace For All Things Ag
INPUTS is an online marketplace where local retailers make bids to farmers looking for the best price for agricultural products and services. INPUTS’ mission is to become the de-facto e-commerce platform for any web-enabled transaction…
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Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire
The incredible growth of the food delivery business has led to some unconventional arrangements.
By Kate Krader in Bloomberg
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Innovator Spotlight: SensIT Ventures, Inc. builds miniature chemical sensors for agriculture and food system sensing and optimization
Photo provided by UC DavisSensIT Ventures, Inc. uses proprietary technology to develop, build and sell custom chemical sensors for many industries, including food and agriculture. The sensors are miniaturized, inexpensive and require minimal power, so they can…
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Survey of the pathogen of Alternaria late blight reveals different levels of carboxamide fungicide resistance on the main pistachio producing regions of California
By Paulo Lichtemberg, Ryan D. Puckett, Yong Luo, Lorene Doster, and Themis J. Michailides originally in California Agriculture
Alternaria late blight (ALB), caused mainly by the fungal pathogen Alternaria alternata, is an important pistachio disease that causes severe tree defoliation and fruit…
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Innovator Spotlight: WISRAN – ‘Live Lean Farming’ to Capture Labor and Other Efficiencies in Agriculture
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…
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Can Seaweed Cut Methane Emissions on Dairy Farms?
By Diane Nelson in Food & Agriculture
Seaweed may be the super food dairy cattle need to reduce the amount of methane they burp into the atmosphere. Early results from research at the University of California, Davis, indicate that just…
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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 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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