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WGCIT: 2020 Reflection, Moving AgTech Forward in 2021
December 31, 2020 — Salinas, CA (Source: WGCIT blog) The Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology is continuing our mission of solving agriculture’s most pressing issues. Farmers are feeding more people, with less resources, […]
Watch: Intellectual Property in AgTech
(Source: Vimeo) December 10, 2020 — Salinas, CA Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT) recently hosted a ‘Lunch and Learn’ Webinar to learn more about IP and patents in AgTech. Watch Rudy Darken, […]
ApisProtect uses unique sensor technology to monitor honey bees to ensure global food supply
By Sara IsenbergFounder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat September 22, 2020 – Salinas, CA and Ireland ApisProtect’s new beekeeping technology combines the sensor data on hive conditions, strength and activity levels with its proprietary […]
Dennis Donohue: A New Kind of Worker
By Dennis DonohueDirector at the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology September 22, 2020 – Salinas, CA (Photo above: Dennis Donohue is the Director at the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology in […]
Past News Articles Bak
News: August 2020 Parallel Flight: Why aren’t your drones out helping the fire? – August 26, 2020 UCSC protects fire-threatened property off the main campus, too – August 26, 2020 MBARI: New animation drains Monterey […]
News: January – December 2019
News: December 2019 Uber’s plan to launch an air taxi service in 2023 just got a boost from Joby Aviation – December 21, 2019 UCSC HCI Experts Help Mediate between Oceangoing Robots, Scientists and Engineers […]
Musings on the Future of AgTech
By Dennis DonohueDirector of Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology July 7, 2020 — Salinas, CA (Photo above: From left to right: Hank Giclas, King City Mayor Mike LeBarre, and Dennis Donohue at the […]
WG Tech Center Hosts First Virtual Grower Trial Network
(Source: WGCIT Agtech Blog) May 26, 2020 — Salinas, CA In an effort to assist Western Growers members in their mission to continue putting food on tables across the country and the world, the Western […]
New “Innovating in Challenging Times” Webinars Feature Continued Tech Development Amid Crisis
(Source: Western Growers) May 6, 2020 — Salinas, CA Entrepreneurs from different agtech startups share how the crisis has impacted their company and creative methods they are implementing to move business forward The Western Growers […]
Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops (SISC) and SupplyShift announce the soft launch of the new SISC Stewardship Calculator
(Contributed) May 5, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo source: SupplyShift) Online platform makes on-farm sustainability data easy to collect and share Following last April’s news of their partnership and initiative to develop an on-line […]