by vine-admin | Sep 5, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Technology
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...
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 | Jul 30, 2018 | Agriculture, Technology
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 a touch of the ocean algae...
by vine-admin | Jul 10, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Technology
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...
by vine-admin | Jul 4, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Technology
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 set the table with a definition of the...
by vine-admin | Jun 27, 2018 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Technology
By Philip L. Martin published in California Agriculture Four ways farmers are responding to the tightening labor market.
