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‘Farming Data’: UC Merced Students Spend Summer Working with Crops
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced August 22, 2023 For UC Merced students working to maintain the campus's Experimental Smart Farm this summer, the day's tasks can range from the high-tech to the grubby....
What’s The Future of Agriculture?
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced April 3, 2023While 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...
Experimental Smart Farm: Advancing Equity Through AgTech Research at UC Merced
LOCATION:SCUP Pacific Regional Conference Davis, CA SPEAKER:Brendan Connolly DATE & TIME:03.28.2023 | 1:30 pm–2:30 pmFood production is a significant driver of human and environmental health....
Ground Tilled, Crops to be Planted at UC Merced’s Smart Farm
By Patty Guerra, UC Merced November 28, 2022Land 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,...
UC Merced Gains Prestigious UC Agricultural Experiment Station Designation
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...