At the 49th annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif., on Feb. 9-11, innovators will be showing off new wireless irrigation control systems, automated washers for solar panels, robotic tree shakers and more.
Audits for regulatory compliance, food safety practices, sustainable practices, organically grown products and many more have created an unfilled need to auto-populate all those forms, and to automate the forms so each is acceptable to private and public end-users.
The ag tech sector does much of its groundwork and business in the San Joaquin Valley. This region is simultaneously one of the planet’s most productive areas and one of the nation’s most chronically depressed.
Heed the words of wisdom from the “Shifting Ground” Conference last week at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, the fourth-annual economic development convening from West Hills Community College District. Contained herein are several tips for your products from your customers on their home ground.
One of the next big things in agricultural technology is monitoring the quantity and quality of irrigation runoff water, and complying with the inevitable and evolving regulations.
Reducing labor costs saves money. Historic farm labor shortages plague growers too, so doing essential planting, maintenance and harvesting tasks with fewer works is a big deal.
Regulatory relief is a long-simmering quest by California businesses to reduce the costs of compliance by eliminating redundancies among the many state government agencies and consolidating permits.
System integrators listen up – a significant, global niche industry has no cross-silo (Intentional pun.) communications or data management capabilities, and no device coherence.
Technology, agribusiness and government representatives co-founded the AgTech Roundtable on Wednesday at an exploratory session hosted by Techwire and The Gualco Group, in downtown Sacramento.
Leading applied research faculty from the UC Davis Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department recently conducted a field ag tech briefing for colleagues and regional agribusiness (Monsanto, Syngenta, John Deere et al) executives.
Without agricultural technology we don’t eat, and we all eat. Remember that in 2014, all you cross-silo (pun intentional) app developers and supposedly savvy system integrators.
