by Michael Tapia | Apr 19, 2023 | Faculty News
By: Leigh Bernacchi, VISTA F3 Executive Director The new UC Merced Farms Food Future innovation initiative is investing in 10 graduate researchers to solve climate and community challenges. Their work is the start of a concerted focus in climate-smart agriculture for...
by Michael Tapia | Apr 3, 2023 | Faculty News
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced April 3, 2023 While UC Merced’s Experimental Smart Farm is focused on technology and automation, it’s also about machine-human collaboration. That was among the messages UC Merced’s representatives shared in a panel...
by Michael Tapia | Mar 28, 2023 | Event, Faculty News
LOCATION:SCUP Pacific Regional Conference Davis, CA SPEAKER:Brendan Connolly DATE & TIME:03.28.2023 | 1:30 pm–2:30 pm Food production is a significant driver of human and environmental health. University of California (UC) Merced’s new interdisciplinary...
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,”...
