Tag: Crops
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Integrating agriculture with solar panels shows promise
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” wrote singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1969, lamenting the view from her hotel window in Hawaii of parking lots “as far as the eye could see,” she said in a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times.…
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Palisade crops unscathed by recent cool down; growers still on edge after last year’s devastation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than one year ago, record low temperatures destroyed more than half of the crops within the Grand Valley region. National Weather Service meteorologist Megan Stackhouse said the temperature dropped to 19 degrees in Grand Junction on April 14, 2020 — the lowest since 1933.…
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BUSINESS | Barn Owl Drone Services
Company brings drone systems, robot technologies to agriculture. (Video provided by Barn Owl Drone Services)
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Study: Vegetables irrigated by PFAS-contaminated water exposed to the chemicals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The public might be exposed to concerning levels of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) through vegetables grown with PFAS-impacted water, according to a study by Colorado School of Mines researchers. The study, published Tuesday by…
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Department of Agriculture gives $850,000 in grants to specialty crop projects
Colorado’s specialty crop industry received over $850,000 in grants from the Colorado Department of Agriculture to fund several projects in 2021, the department announced Wednesday. The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program funds new or ongoing projects regarding specialty crops including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, horticulture, greenhouse and nursery plants. “Interest in the program this year…