Insero Insero is proud to be a Western Growers member and resident in the WGCIT. Insero is an ag-engineering company focused on helping agri-businesses grow. The company specializes in developing products that are sophisticated in design yet easy to use. Insero has three products currently in the market: AgOtter is a rate controller for ground rigs that helps growers manage labor efficiencies and actively compensate GPA to apply their inputs efficiently. All the data is then collected and sent to the online platform, AgHippo, to assist in reporting compliance and food safety reports. AgPilotX is an innovative guidance system for aerial applicators. AgPilotX is the first and only app-based wireless guidance system in the market. With only three components—Lightbar, Hub, and iPad—the system is designed for simplicity and ease of use. AgHippo Live is Insero’s online website that allows the client to control, monitor, and track the application in real-time. NEOGEN Corporation
Pago wrapped up its first full winter vegetable harvest in Yuma and transitioned back into California. With the addition of new California berry growers on the Pago platform in 2021, Pago now provides timekeeping and production tracking software for all commodities grown by Western Growers members including vegetables, citrus, berries, table grapes, wine grapes, stone fruit, nuts and more. Pago recently added new features to support employers who utilize the H-2A program. And, Pago recently launched new barcode scanning features for better production counting and traceability in field harvest operations. Now, Pago customers have the choice of utilizing NFC employee badges or barcode stickers for production counting. Regardless of how time and production data is recorded, the Pago compliance engine helps ag employers comply with all federal, state, and local wage and hour rules. With minimum wage increasing and the ag overtime exemption disappearing in California, Pago is especially valuable for growers who want to pay piece rate but are afraid of wage and hour lawsuits. In support of the Western Growers Global Harvest Automation Initiative, Pago is expanding its developer API to support integration with the new mechanical and robotic equipment making its way into the fields. Radical Plastics is excited to join the WG community. As part of its goal of making a meaningful contribution to the battle against plastic pollution, Radical Plastics has developed a patented catalyst that renders conventional plastics biodegradable in the environment. The first application is for soil degradable mulch films. Radical Plastics mulch films offer all the benefits of conventional plastic mulch without the downsides. Unlike regular plastic films, which must be collected and disposed of at the end of the season, the company’s films can be tilled into the soil where they biodegrade entirely, leaving no toxic byproducts and no microplastics. Radical Plastics has two patents and a growing pipeline of intellectual property as it continues to validate the technology. Radical Plastics ran successful field trials on its soil degradable mulch films in seven locations across the U.S. in 2020. Radical Plastics is expanding its beta testing in 2021 with the expectation of a commercial product launch in Q4. The company’s mission is to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and REDESIGN plastics so we can enjoy their many benefits without polluting our planet. NEOGEN Corporation, a provider of environmental monitoring and safety solutions, is helping food and beverage brands reduce environmental safety risks by offering the NEOGEN Analytics EMP platform to qualified organizations for a full year, at no cost. The NEOGEN Analytics EMP, powered by Corvium, enables remote monitoring of multiple processing plant sites, centralizes environmental testing data, automates reporting for compliance and conformance and improves food safety and quality for produce companies and consumers. Access to an intelligent analytics platform helps growers make data-driven decisions that improve food safety and compliance. Learn more and request a demo at neogen.com/neogen-analytics/ Tailwater Systems has announced a major expansion of its product line with two new systems targeting unsolved problems in California agriculture. First, they’ve developed an anaerobic digester for converting high strength organic waste to volatile fatty acids (VFA). This VFAs can be used as a carbon source for the company’s nitrate removal systems. VFAs can also be easily converted into an eco-safe replacement for road salt. This system can reduce your ongoing fixed charges related to land application of process water and generate a valuable commodity for resale. The second new system is a hybrid hydroponic brine reduction system. This system replaces water hauling and evaporators at a fraction of the cost. The system uses a combination of carefully curated halophytes to transpire the water and adsorb some of the salt in the brine. Applications include greenhouse RO brine and drainage reduction. Both systems are in the pilot stage.
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