After months of partisan wrangling, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed the 2018 Farm Bill. It now awaits President Trump’s signature. He’s expected to sign it into law before the end of the year.
Agriculture and the food industry have been undergoing significant change for the last decade. These changes are something farmers and others in the agribusiness industry need to be aware of from a business and supplier standpoint as 2018 comes to an end and we ring in the new year.
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
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
Share This: The promise of more water for San Joaquin Valley Farmers: Real or more water politics? By Victor Martino President Donald Trump appears to be giving San Joaquin Valley farmers the big ticket item he promised them in return
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
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into our daily lives and virtually every industry you can think of, from food and farming to transportation, entertainment, manufacturing and banking, to name just a few. In agriculture, AI offers farmers and others the ability to make better decisions, increase productivity, and see patterns that cannot be seen or figured out with human capability.
Industrial hemp, which unlike it’s cousin marijuana contains a negligible amount of THC, the compound that gets you high, may soon be given the green light as a fully-legal commercial crop in California. So whats in store for the commodity in California?
Lloyd Tiede never cries. “I have never seen my Dad cry besides when his father passed away,” said Adrianna Tiede, Lloyd’s daughter. But in a phone call with his daughter Thursday, Sept. 13, Tiede, 55, simply couldn’t hold back the tears any longer. And neither could she. “I could tell right when I picked up the phone that it wasn’t good news,” Adrianna said. “I answered and it was quiet on the other end.”
We live in a cross over age. What was once all about hardware, is now becoming all about software.
Companies like John Deere, Apple, Toyota, and Samsung (among others) have designed products in such a way that only approved technicians can repair them. This might not sound like such a big deal with things like cell phones or TVs, which are relatively low cost. However, what about a tractor that can cost as much as a new home?
