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A New Web-based Tool for Predicting Pistachio Nut Growth
Thus far, deciding when to deficit irrigate, spray pesticides and harvest pistachios has been based on the current…
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Category: New Tech
Labor
California Legislative Recap for 2021
The 2021 legislative session was an interesting one, still subject to COVID-19 restrictions limiting access to the Capitol,…
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New Tech
CARB Updating Regulations for Trucking Industry
In January 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-79-20, which banned the sale of light-, medium- and…
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New Tech
Working at Heights
As one of many post-agricultural harvest operations, the nut hulling and processing industry continues to flourish in the…
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New Tech
Bridging the Ag Tech Divide
Do you sometimes feel like we are living in two alternate realities when it comes to ag technology?…
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New Tech
Taking Flight
Research in a Colusa County almond orchard that compared insecticide applications using an unmanned aerial vehicle to an…
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New Tech
Artificial Intelligence Drives Defect Sorting Decisions
Admitted innovators, the family members behind Travaille and Phippen Inc. embrace technology to improve their production efficiency and…
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New Tech
Ag Tech in a Pandemic
2020 was the year that changed everything. Our typical focus on bloom conditions, crop set, and spring meetings…
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New Tech
Putting Local Weather Data to Work in your Orchards
Cold temperatures usher in the dormant season, giving trees and growers a much-needed respite from the intensity of…
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Almonds
Supplemental Pollination
Large-scale almond trials are looking at different forms of mechanical application to supplement bee pollination in almond orchards.…
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