Month: November 2018

Robotics Wants to Solve the California Farm Labor Shortage

Share This: Robotics wants to solve the California farm labor shortage By Victor Martino There’s a dark cloud hanging over California’s $54 billion agricultural industry — labor scarcity. According to a recent California Farm Bureau Federation survey of 762 California

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Fire, Water, and Farming in the Golden State

Share This: Farm to Fork Column By: Victor Martino Fire, Water, and Farming in the Golden State As I write this column Friday, Nov. 16, the Golden State is on fire, from upscale Malibu in the south to rural Butte

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Meet the farming side of Sears

Share This: Farm to Fork Column By: Victor Martino Meet the farming side of Sears Sears, the 132-year-old iconic department store chain, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, October 15. It faced a whopping 132-million debt payment which it could not

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