by Alli Sweigard | Jun 27, 2025 | Company News, News
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced News A UC Merced team competing in a U.S. Department of Energy contest won its division with a proposal to use floating solar panels to power the campus’s Experimental Smart Farm. The Solar District Cup is a collegiate competition that...
by Alli Sweigard | Jun 27, 2025 | Company News, News
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced News At UC Merced’s biggest lab, students work from before sunrise to well after dusk. They are operating the university’s Experimental Smart Farm, 40 acres of dirt and plants, research and experiments. They study everything from...
by Alli Sweigard | Jun 24, 2025 | Company News, News
Jaimie Colores Flores feature in UC Merced’s Monday Memo Email Role: Administrative Assistant for VISTA/ORED Graduation Info: BA in Public Health, Class of 2024 Is there a staff or faculty member that had a positive impact on your time as a UC Merced student? ...
by Alli Sweigard | Jun 20, 2025 | Company News, News
See AgTech in Action—Right in the Field On September 17, VINE Connect brings its Field Day series to UC Merced. This grower-focused morning features live demonstrations of six emerging technologies tackling key farming challenges. Each solution is vetted through the...
by Alli Sweigard | Jun 18, 2025 | Company News, F3 Highlight, News, Uncategorized
By Alli Sweigard, VISTA F3 Communications Coordinator Growing up in Watsonville, a vibrant agricultural community on California’s Central Coast, Adamaris Alvarez always knew she wanted to work in agriculture. She worked on her family’s berry ranch, Alvarez...
by Alex Yanez | May 29, 2025 | Company News, News
Transplants are in the ground! We’re planting nearly an acre of pumpkins for an AgTech Club U-Pick event this October and we have a corn maze coming soon. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, melons, and more are also on the way. This is just a preview of the...
