Tag Archive: AgTech

Register: Feb. 17 Labor, Automation, and Agriculture Webinar

February 10, 2021 All Articles, , , , , , , , , , , , , 0

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Register to attend the Labor and Automation in California Agriculture: Equity, Productivity & Resilience with Tom Harmon webinar on February 17 at 12 pm. Tom Harmon is a professor and director of the UC Merced Department of Civil &…
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Wireless Smart Farming to Keep Frost Away From Citrus

November 7, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles, , , , , , , , , 0

UCSB SmartFarm sensor approximately 5 feet off the ground surrounded by citrus will help UC researchers know when to turn on windfans to protect plants from frost.

By Susan Rambo. Computer science researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are using the internet of things to prove that smart farming can be a farm implement as basic as the tractor and plough. The husband and wife…
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Napolitano Sees Opportunity in Nexus of Agricultural Bounty and Technological Innovation

August 30, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles, , , 0

By Pamela Kan-Rice.  “As we confront the problems in California today, we must ask ourselves, how will ag and tech solve these problems together? How can Salinas Valley and Silicon Valley work more harmoniously and how will the University of…
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