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UCDavisPlants

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1 week ago

Red and blue filters above the tomato plants with the monitoring sensors. The infrared radiometer, directed to the canopy under the blue treatment is shown in the right-bottom panel while the Atmos 14 and PAR sensors appear in the lower panels as installed on white PVC tubes.

🍅 From Energy Nexus: Spectral agrivoltaic panels cut tomato yields but improved water use efficiency and land productivity by producing both crops and solar power. (Majdi Abou Najm, Andre Daccache, Mohamed Emami)

▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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UCDavisPlants

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1 week ago

Transformative Gift Propels UC Davis’ Leadership in Ag Tech UC Davis receives a $25 million gift from the estate of Dan G. Best II to fund endowed chairs, scholarships and agricultural innovation in honor of C.L. Best.

🚜 From UC Davis: $25M gift from Dan G. Best II, grandson of founding leader of Caterpillar Tractor Co., will accelerate ag tech research in AI, robotics and data driven farming methods to tackle climate resilience and sustainable #agriculture.

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UCDavisPlants

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1 month ago

Techno-economic Analysis of Fungal Biomass Production from Agricultural Byproducts: Exploring a Low-Cost Solution for Myco-food Production - Food and Bioprocess Technology Fungal biomass production from agricultural byproducts offers both economic and environmental advantages as a novel myco-food. A system model was developed using SuperPro Designer and applied to the t...

🌱 From Food and Bioprocess Technology: Converting almond hull byproducts into fungal foods could deliver low-cost, sustainable protein and fiber while reducing agricultural waste. (Lin Cao, Yike Chen, Hamed M. El Mashad, Zhongli Pan & Ruihong Zhang)
▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Oxford Energy Solutions

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1 month ago

We don’t just supply equipment — we design the process behind it.
Because better process means better product.
#ProcessDriven #AgEngineering #FoodSecurity #AgriculturalPartner #BuiltForFarms #ruralontario
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UCDavisPlants

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1 month ago

🚜 From IEEE Robotics and Automation: A fast planning algorithm boosts multi-arm robotic fruit harvesting, scaling throughput efficiently while generating collision-free schedules and trajectories. (Stavros Vougioukas)
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UCDavisPlants

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2 months ago

The flowchart illustrates the proposed two-stage pipeline for real-time biomass prediction and forecasting, where RGB images are processed through a real-time biomass prediction model to generate hourly biomass estimates, which are then combined with the record.

🖥️ From ASABE: A two stage machine learning pipeline accurately estimates and forecasts lettuce biomass from RGB images, enabling real time yield prediction in indoor vertical farming. (Shehran Syed, Md Shamim Ahamed, Saeed Karimzadeh, Ken Omwange)

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UCDavisPlants

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4 months ago

Figure 1. Autonomous tractor (www.monarchtractor.com) (left) and autonomous sprayer (www.gussag.com) (right).

🚜 From Journal of Agricultural Safety Health: As robotics reshape farm work, researchers call for urgent study of human–machine safety, event tracking, and collaboration to protect agricultural workers. (Farzaneh Khorsandi)
▶️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40794928/
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4 months ago

Characterization of Insect Damage, Physical and Thermal Properties of Off-Ground Harvested Almonds and Their Components as Influenced by Harvest Time - Food and Bioprocess Technology Off-ground almond harvesting is a promising alternative to conventional on-ground methods, reducing dust, microbial contamination, and insect damage. However, the high moisture content (MC) in off-gro...

🌱 From Food and Bioprocess Technology: Off-ground almond harvest cuts insect damage by 52% and reveals key drying needs tied to moisture and thermal properties at different harvest stages. (Zhaokun Ning, Ragab Khir, Zhongli Pan)
▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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UCDavisPlants

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4 months ago

Fig. 1. (a) percentage share of post-harvest losses (PHL) at different stages of fruits and vegetables supply chain, and (b) percentage share of global PHL with respect to different commodities, data is taken from [11].

🌱International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer: A solar-powered cold storage system cut produce weight loss threefold and extended shelf life fourfold, offering an efficient, low-cost preservation method. (Md Shamim Ahamed)
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UCDavisPlants

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5 months ago

AI Tool to Help Farmers Measure Real-Time Crop Health from the Field Leaf Monitor, a new mobile tool backed by artificial intelligence and predictive modeling, could revolutionize how farmers monitor crops and make decisions by providing real-time nutrition and leaf tr...

From UC Davis: AI-powered Leaf Monitor uses spectrometry to give farmers instant nutrient and stress data, enabling real-time crop management and more precise fertilizer use. (Alireza Pourreza, Parastoo Farajpoor)
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UCDavisPlants

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7 months ago

Production of Filamentous Fungal Biomass (Aspergillus awamori) in Pellet Form from Almond Hull Extract - Food and Bioprocess Technology Fungal cultivation using agricultural byproducts is a sustainable approach to produce valuable bioproducts for applications such as protein-rich foods. In this study, Aspergillus awamori (A. awamori) ...

🌱 From Food and Bioprocess Technology: #Almond hull extract supports efficient A. awamori pellet growth for protein-rich biomass. C/N ratio and agitation key to yield. (Lin Cao, Hamed M. El Mashad, Zhongli Pan, Ruihong Zhang)

▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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UCDavisPlants

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10 months ago

Research progress in the application of infrared blanching in fruit and vegetable drying process Fruits and vegetables offer substantial nutritional and health benefits, but their short shelf life necessitates effective preservation methods. Conventional drying techniques, while efficient, often...

🌱 Infrared blanching (IRB) improves fruit & veg drying by boosting nutrient retention, color, and efficiency. Cuts drying time by up to 50%. (Zhongli Pan)
▶️ ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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