Marcelo Bustamante, PhD student in Akif Eskalen's lab, is on a mission. A sort of microbial safari. Only the fungi and bacteria Marcelo is collecting aren't easy to catch-they live inside the grape vine, potentially protecting it from deadly canker disease organisms.
Hi Fodder Folks! "Precision Agriculture" is a term you've probably heard. You may think of farm mechanization, remote sensing, computers, and maybe even drones when you hear it, and you'd be correct in all of those associations.
Greetings Fodder Family! How have you been? Well, I hope! I've been busy too and I've got stories to tell! Over the years as Farm Advisor here (gosh, 19 years this October) my job has changed in many ways with the times.
Everyone, and I mean EVERY one, is all smiles as the 2018 California foothill winegrape harvest sails in on cool weather after a bit of a tumultuous season.
