by Michael Tapia | Mar 5, 2023 | Student News
By: William Le, Bodrul Babul, Derek Stanford Inspiration Our inspiration for this project is a desire to create a more efficient irrigation system to reduce water waste to help combat the effects of the ever present droughts present in California. We wanted to improve...
by Michael Tapia | Mar 1, 2023 | Faculty News
By: Charles Radke Ingredients to transform the economy California’s vast Central Valley has long been globally recognized for its distinctive agricultural economy, one that produces hundreds of commodities valued at billions of dollars every year. The region feeds the...
by Michael Tapia | Nov 28, 2022 | Company News
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced November 28, 2022 Land has been tilled at UC Merced’s smart farm, the first physical step in developing the state-of-the-art project. “Even though it’s just a blank field, we have overcome some pretty big obstacles to be where we are today,”...
by Michael Tapia | Nov 16, 2022 | Faculty News
By Lorena Anderson, UC Merced November 16, 2022 UCs Merced and Santa Cruz became the newest campuses in the system to be named an agricultural experiment stations (AES), UC President Michael Drake announced at today’s Regents’ meeting. They are the first campuses in...
by Michael Tapia | Oct 22, 2022 | Company News, Faculty News
By: Vanessa Vasconcelos FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — One of the oldest buildings in downtown Fresno that’s sat vacant for decades is poised to become a central hub for agriculture and innovation. But that’s only part of what’s to come for the...