Courtesy: Gurpinder Brar “California cannot count on potential El Niño conditions to halt or reverse drought conditions. Historical weather data shows us that at best, there is a 50/50 chance…
The Western View: Crowdfunding for Agriculture
…with the USDA. Another, AgDNA, has developed an automated data processing and analytics platform which gathers information using the machinery in the fields and sends it directly to growers’ smartphones…
Army Corps Criticizes EPA for Flawed Rulemaking, Warns WOTUS has Little Legal Standing and is Not Based on Science
…believes that the rule will not hold up in the courts and that it grossly misinterprets Corps data. “Corps data to EPA has been selectively applied out of context, and…
USDA, Microsoft to Launch “Innovation Challenge” to Address Food Resiliency
…blending together USDA data, novel ways of exploring and analyzing data with access to large scale computing and data analysis in the form of Microsoft’s Azure platform,” said Dr. Daron…
Proposal To Strengthen Western Water Bill for San Joaquin Valley
…so that we can understand what is not working, and why. Without collecting, collating, and reporting data on an annual basis about what flows are released and what they achieve,…
The Western View: New Technology, New Opportunity
…lease their surplus water rights out to someone else. That would be an entirely new revenue stream for growers. Another company is working on ways to manage your data. The…
Polluted Rivers, Lakes and Coastal Waters Need Cleanup and Restoration Plans
…waterways in need of cleanup plans to EPA for review. This year, California submitted its 2012 updated polluted waters list based on data collected through 2010 for the North Coast,…
Enrollment for 2016 Dairy Margin Protection Program to Begin July 1
…dairy farmers to quickly and easily combine their unique operation data and other key variables to calculate their coverage needs based on price projections. Producers can also review historical data…
National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods
…in the development of microbiological criteria. In addition, it reviews and evaluates epidemiological and risk assessment data and methodologies for assessing microbiological hazards. “NACMCF members offer invaluable insights on food…
Microbiomes Changing Food Safety Monitoring
…Rodrigue, talked to attendees at the Produce Marketing Associations Technology Conference last month about their microbiome project, and how it can use big data to solve some safety concerns. Rodrigue…
USDA Opens Enrollment Period for Agriculture Risk Coverage
…farms, 99 percent of peanut farms, and 94 percent of medium grain rice farms elected PLC. For data about other crops and state-by-state program election results go to www.fsa.usda.gov/arc-plc. Covered…
USDA Begins Accepting Applications from States for $100 Million Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership
…costs such as additional infrastructure to support pumps, marketing, education, data collection, program evaluation and administrative costs. This new investment seeks to double the number of fuel pumps capable of…
Hortau Secures $5M in Financing from Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners
…business during a critical time here in California and the U.S., where water issues are becoming the norm,” Boudreau said. “Agriculture is currently going through an evolution phase, using data-driven…
Familiarizing Growers With Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
…capture huge amounts of data that log many different variables of a field. A new partner with All Drone Solutions is making the access of that data almost instant. Types…