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🚜 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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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.
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March 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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🚜 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)
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Figure 1. Autonomous tractor (www.monarchtractor.com) (left) and autonomous sprayer (www.gussag.com) (right).
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🚜 From Computers and Electronics in Agriculture: Rear and combined rack loads most reduced agricultural ATV stability, showing how load placement can influence rollover risk. (Payam Farhadi, Farzaneh Khorsandi)

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Fig. 1. The ATV used in this study.
September 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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🌱 From Food and Bioproducts Processing: Dragon fruit peel waste yielded stable red betalain pigments that colored gelatin without altering taste, offering a potential natural food dye. (Bruno Augusto Mattar Carciofi)

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Graphical abstract showing process and value of pitaya peel powder as a source of betalains.
August 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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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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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...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🍅 From Food and Bioproducts Processing: A simple surface incision improved infrared tomato peeling, reducing energy use, minimizing waste and preserving nutrients while increasing processing efficiency. (Zhongli Pan)

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Coupling incision pretreatment with catalytic infrared heating for high-efficiency tomato peeling
Current catalytic infrared peeling (CIP) of tomatoes is constrained by relatively long heating durations and unpredictable peeling locations. This stu…
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July 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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🌱 From Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: Rapid photosynthesis tests can speed crop phenotyping, but field conditions still favor slower methods for the most reliable results. (Andre Daccache)

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Quantification of leaf photosynthetic traits in field conditions: Towards an efficient and reliable method for plant phenotyping and modelling ecophysiological processes
The maximum rate of carboxylation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (Vcmax) represents a key biochemical trait and a fundamental parameter in C3 models of …
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May 27, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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🌱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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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].
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Marginal gains matter. Accurate force measurement improves yield, fuel efficiency & equipment safety in modern agriculture: buff.ly/7P0gE0z.
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April 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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🌱 Ultrasonics Sonochemistry: Ultrasound pretreatment improved soy protein quality by reducing off-flavors and enhancing functionality, leading to better performance in plant-based foods. (Farzaneh Khorsandi)

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Effect of ultrasound pretreatment assisted drying methods on structural and thermal properties of soy protein isolate
Soy protein isolate, a essential component in various food products, can be greatly impacted by the drying process, influencing its quality and functi…
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March 19, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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💻 From Plant Phenomics: Synthetic training images and limited field data improved thermal crop detection in weedy fields, advancing scalable field phenotyping. (Earl Ranario, Ismael Mayanja, Heesup Yun, Brian N. Bailey, J. Mason Earles)

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Thermal Image Segmentation in Weedy Fields via Synthetic RGB-Trained Models and GAN-Based Cross-Modality Alignment
Accurate plant segmentation in thermal imagery remains a significant challenge for high throughput field phenotyping, particularly in outdoor environm…
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May 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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🌱 Infrared blanching (IRB) improves fruit & veg drying by boosting nutrient retention, color, and efficiency. Cuts drying time by up to 50%. (Zhongli Pan)
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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...
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April 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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🌱 From Food and Bioprocess Technology: Pulsed light and peracetic acid acted synergistically against Salmonella, improving inactivation even at low light doses on model food surfaces. (Ana G. Massia, Bruno A. M. Carciofi)

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Combined Effects of Peracetic Acid and Pulsed Light on Salmonella Typhimurium Inactivation - Food and Bioprocess Technology
Due to the potentially severe implications of pathogenic Salmonella in contaminated food products, especially in fresh and ready-to-eat products, there is a need for alternative microbial intervention...
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August 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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🍅 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)

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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.
March 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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🚜 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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January 20, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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🌱 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)
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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...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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🌱 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)
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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...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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📡 From Earth Systems and Environment: Combining satellite and drone data with machine learning enables precise soil moisture mapping, helping target irrigation and improve water use in dry farming systems. (Andre Daccache)

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Advancing Soil Moisture Prediction Using Satellite and UAV-based Imagery with Machine Learning Models - Earth Systems and Environment
Crop yields in Pakistan are significantly lower than their potential, primarily due to limited water availability and the reliance on rotation water delivery instead of demand-based water supply. The ...
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March 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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🌱 From Case Studies in Thermal Engineering: Ground source heat pumps cut #greenhouse water use by >50% and emissions by >75%, with seasonal trade-offs and ~8.7 yr payback. (T.M. Abir Ahsan, Ahmed A. Hassan, Amrit Kumar Thakur, Md Shamim Ahamed)
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Fig. 1. Schematic representation of the CGH focusing on key technical components of the HVAC system and major water flows.
June 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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🖥️ 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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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.
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🌱 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)

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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) ...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM