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VISIMO proposes to develop a risk management platform referred to internally as Demeter thatleverages a custom machine learning model to enhance the efficiency profitability and safety ofsmall and mid-sized farms. Demeter will advance the state of farm safety by identifying risksproviding mitigating actions and offering economic cost-benefit analyses for suggestedmitigations. Users can utillize th ...

USDA seeks to develop tools appropriate for small farms that enhance farm safety and riskmanagement. Farming remains an extremely dangerous occupation: agricultural workers are 33times more likely to die than workers in other industries (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020).Farm-related injuries cost the U.S economy over four billion dollars per year (Leigh et al 2001).VISIMO will develop a machi ...

PROJECT SUMMARY - ABSTRACT OF USDA-NIFA-SBIR GRANT APPLICATIONTITLE: Feasibility and Application of Industrial Hemp Fiber as an Agricultural SubstrateIncorporated in Growing MixesThis research is to advance the use ofnew farm produced Industrial Hemp biomass as acomponent for applications in agriculture specifically as a horticultural growth media and soilamendment. It will be conducted by PittMos ...

Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) proposes the development of an advanced lowcost insulation solution for small scale anaerobic digesters (AD) that relies on a salt hydratephase change material (PCM) to improve passive digestate temperature control and thereforesignificantly boost methane production while using the inherent thermal storage capability ofPCM to enable the use of unsteady ther ...

In this SBIR Phase II project Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) and University ofCalifornia Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) propose to develop anirrigation system to desalinate brackish water for high value crop yield. This concept uses ahumidification/condensation process to provide affordable freshwater to depleted agriculturalregions. The successful implementation o ...

The socioeconomic geographic and demographic characteristics of rural and tribal communities putthem at even greater risk of environmental variations than their urban or suburban counterparts; thereforethey need different data-driven tools to help them increase community resilience. To facilitate long-termadaptation planning these communities need affordable flexible software applications that can ...

Consumers are demanding replacement of synthetic food colors with compounds from naturalsources. We have prepared a stable water-soluble yellow-red extract from avocado seeds.AvoColor® has favorable colorant properties in a variety of food systems. Structural analysisidentified the major pigment as a novel glycosylated benzotropone. The overall goal of theproposed studies is to commercialize a "g ...

The goal of this research is to enable users to take advantage of panoramic ground-level imagery toremotely discern the presence of street trees in their neighborhoods and to derive the geographiccoordinates and baseline data on tree species or genus diameter and condition that can be used tosupport future planting initiatives and best management practices.By providing an alternative totraditional ...

In the US alone, 3 billion pounds of consumed fresh tomatoes are grown in greenhouse farms. These farms improve food security, require less land, and consume less resources; however, for these farms to operate, large labor forces are needed to maintain, harvest, and package the tomatoes. These jobs, though paying well above minimum wage, do not attract local workers and force farmers to use immigr ...

As biodiesel production in the USA increases, bottlenecks in feedstock appear likely. Several companies have formed to investigate novel forms of conversion of lower cost feedstocks but all have found the same substantial hurdle, meeting the 15PPM sulfur specification of ASTM D6751. Numerous experiments have shown that low-cost fats, oils and greases may contain 300 - 500PPM sulfur and that no sin ...