Precision agriculture is a timely idea, but profits may not grow fast
Farmers are a skeptical lot. And Ventura County farmers have good reasons to be skeptical. They, and their counterparts in the Tri-Counties, grow high-risk, high-yield crops on relatively small plots of land surrounded by housing developments and urban areas. They are subject to heavy regulations on fertilizer, pesticide and water use. Particularly on strawberry fields Read More →
Read More →Editorial: UAVs should be at core of iHub
Working hand-in-hand with a statewide manufacturing initiative and the emerging unmanned aerial vehicle industry, it could give production, design, energy and technology firms along the Highway 101 corridor a lift.
Read More →Brown taps Ventura County as one of state’s ‘innovation hubs’
Gov. Jerry Brown has named Ventura and Kern counties among four newly-established innovation hubs designed to spur job growth. The so-called Kern-Ventura i-Hub is designed to foster the growth of high-tech companies in aerospace, energy and other fields and is part of the California iDEA Hub. It will be based in Ridgecrest, in Kern County Read More →
Read More →Ventura County could seek drones without FAA
Ventura County would consider going ahead with opening a drone test site even if it is not one of the six applicants out of 50 nationwide that are selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead the way in integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace. That was the word from panelists at Read More →
Read More →Ventura County business groups step forward in bid for drone testing
Ventura County will likely be the official applicant in a nationwide competition that’s expected to be very stiff.
Read More →Editorial: The drone debate continues
State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, weighed in on the debate about drone activity over California with a bill to regulate the airspace above the Golden State.
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