Universities propel agtech innovation in the Central Valley

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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This week, we’re heading to California’s Central Valley to see how technology is transforming this agricultural region. And we’re going straight to the innovation source: the University of California, Merced, where academics there are guiding students to research agtech innovations to potentially develop them for commercialization.

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1:05.7	From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.
1:17.6	Thank you. This is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. This week, we're heading to California's Central Valley to see how technology is transforming this agricultural region.
1:27.2	Yesterday, we visited a farm to see the latest
1:29.6	gadgets in action, and today we're going straight to the innovation source, the University
1:35.2	of California, Merced. Thanks for meaking the trip up. That's where we met Lee Bernaki, the executive
1:42.4	director of the Valley Institute for Sustainability, Technology, and Agriculture.
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