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May 13, 2019

In this week's Home Grown segement we are honoring Victor Smith, CEO of JV Smith Companies. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Agriculture and Life Science at the Univeristy of Arizona on Friday.

April 28, 2019

For more than four years, the Yuma Center for Excellence in Desert Agriculture has been doing something radically practical — responding directly to the needs of the farming industry.

April 25, 2019

Dairy farmers in Arizona are dealing with challenges brought by tariffs and competition from alternative milk products, such as almond and soy milk, as well as persistent drought across the Southwest.

April 12, 2019 University of Arizona students have the opportunity to work with the agriculture industry to identify its needs and develop a product to address those challenges with the Go To Market Initiative.

March 29, 2019

Our Go to Market Initiative project was featured on "Inside Tucson Business" website!

March 18, 2019 We have had the privilege of working with these phenomenal UofA engineer students on integrating a thermal camera on a drone. We will use this in our water management and soil health research.

March 4, 2019 “What they were trying to do is build a mechanism a little fancier than a nylon stocking, which they did with a 3D printer that would dispense pollen at the command of a control system, so it goes from one tree and dispenses the pollen and then onto the next tree so it’s a savings of pollen and of l

March 4, 2019

We teamed up with engineering and business students design time- and money-saving agricultural technology and form a startup to bring the invention to market.

February 27, 2019 “A lot of that is multi-institutional research so we work with the USDA and we work with the FDA and there’s a lot of federal agencies that are part of research efforts,” said Paul Brierley, executive director for Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture.