When thinking about ag tech, it’s useful to know which crops are rising and falling. Bob Gore, Techwire’s agricultural and food technology blogger, picks out the numbers you should pay attention to.
The division is aggressively partnering on projects around mechanization and new crops, writes Techwire agriculture and food technology blogger Bob Gore.
At the field level, more sophisticated apps are needed to identify teeny-tiny critters and wind-borne spores. Interactive platforms with scientists would be a good thing, writes Techwire ag and food technology blogger Bob Gore.
Trends and outtakes from a recent meeting on sensor management, regulatory reporting innovation, the near future of the UC agriculture researcher and why agriculture tech venture capital is tightening, writes Techwire agriculture and food technology blogger Bob Gore.
For all the gee-whiz and genuine benefits of ag tech, it doesn’t work without broadband, and large chunks of rural California are without broadband, writes Techwire ag tech and food blogger Bob Gore.
In a special convening with California’s agricultural, regulatory and academic research leaders, the pro bono AgTech Roundtable gathers today, Feb. 28, in Sacramento to find applied agricultural technology solutions to the unprecedented onslaught of new regulations looming in 2017-18.
Farmers want tech prototypes now, says UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean Helene Dillard, as there's a regulatory-driven urgency.
Regulatory regimes are a boon to ag tech developers and a burden to growers and food processors. This unprecedented onslaught of new regulations looms in 2017-18. Agribusiness leaders and state regulatory agency executives will gather Feb. 28 at a special convening of the pro bono AgTech Roundtable in downtown Sacramento to find common ground and collaboration, writes Techwire agricultural and food technology blogger Bob Gore.
A summit in Sacramento on Wednesday was a prelude to a new program that puts “soils back into the forefront of agriculture,” writes Bob Gore, Techwire’s agricultural and food technology blogger.
Agricultural and food technology and food waste reduction are two peas in a pod. Ag tech expertise is essential to feeding hungry people, dramatically reducing the 40 percent food waste rate and conserving precious natural resources, writes ag and food tech blogger Bob Gore.
Growers, packers, food processors and ag-related businesses need ag tech solutions quickly. They need online interactive permit applications, monitoring and reports for water, fertilizers and pesticides, explains Techwire food and ag tech blogger Bob Gore.
California farmers are shouldering what many believe to be a fatal regulatory burden of new and stringent rules on water, inputs (fertilizer and pesticides), energy and labor. Ag tech could emerge as a critical path out of the maze, writes Techwire food and ag tech blogger Bob Gore.
Dr. Amrith Gunasekara, chief science adviser at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, shared his cutting-edge ag tech development insights in a lengthy conversation as his executive suite office.
Insights on broadband, innovation and regulation for developers and general ag tech enthusiasts from the AgTech Roundtable quarterly convening last week in Sacramento.
“We’re not seeing sufficient level of detail” in adapting and adjusting various software products to the specific farmer’s operation, Amrith Gunasekara, the chief science adviser at the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), tells Techwire agricultural food technology blogger Bob Gore.
Agricultural technology can solve the mystery of missing crop yields a maximize the effectiveness of irrigation, says U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s (USDA) California innovation director and former California Department of Food and Agriculture deputy secretary, in a conversation with Techwire ag and food tech blogger Bob Gore.
Drones, spore collectors, mini climate stations and other gadgets worth paying attention to, according to Techwire agriculture and food tech blogger Bob Gore.
Dr. Robert Tse, a former State Fair Tech Champion of the Year, explains how agriculture technology in California is becoming prescriptive — farmers are working like doctors.
California State Climatologist Dr. Michael A. Anderson forecasts critical changes ahead that will immediately cascade down to agricultural water managers and ag tech developers' ability to craft new software and connections to new hardware.
Should the State Water Resources Control Board enact stringent statewide controls requiring each and every farmer to monitor and report what happens to applied irrigation water? How much, at what time and where it goes? Ag and food tech will play a critical role.
Agricultural technology is now officially disruptive – the global giants have noticed. Revenue streams cultivated for two centuries are irrevocably changing.
Ag tech developers must help farmers feed twice as many people on the same amount of land by 2040, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Sustainable intensification means enabling yields to double while doing no environmental harm.
Ag and food tech entrepreneurs are invited to join an interactive, real-time conversation about the future of market parameters, customers and strategic vision.
Agricultural technology is a significant factor in the future of the ag and food continuum; what’s called “seed to shelf.” This Techwire blog is now a food and ag tech platform.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spurred by the USDA and the nation’s land grant universities, this week called for a new commitment to research in agriculture and food.
