Two interdisciplinary research teams at University of California, Santa Cruz, will develop agricultural technology for farmers with the support of grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.
Two interdisciplinary research teams at University of California, Santa Cruz, will develop agricultural technology for farmers with the support of grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.
Both teams represent collaborative efforts between researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology, the Environmental Studies department, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department within the Baskin School of Engineering. All of the researchers are associated with the UC Santa Cruz’s AgTech Alliance, an interdisciplinary effort to build ethical agricultural technology for a sustainable future.
“Both of these projects represent what we are trying to achieve as the UC Santa Cruz AgTech Alliance: socially responsible solutions for the emerging challenges faced by farmers and other stakeholders in agriculture and food production,” said Colleen Josephson, co-director of the Ag Tech Alliance and a grant awardee.
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Professor of ECE Dejan Milutinovic with an electric tractor at the UC Santa Cruz farm. (Photo Credit: University of California Santa Cruz)
