Western Growers announced Friday a three-year, $1.5 million partnership with Reservoir Farms to expand testing and development of agricultural robotics and automation technologies for specialty crop growers.
The agreement gives Western Growers members and affiliated startups access to field demonstrations and on-farm trials at Reservoir Farms locations in Salinas, California wine country and a planned Central Valley site.
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Western Growers President and CEO Dave Puglia said the partnership will help growers identify “workable automation and efficiency solutions” to address rising labor and production costs. Reservoir CEO Danny Bernstein said the deal creates “a direct line between the problems growers are facing and the technologies being built to solve them.”