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Challenges, Opportunities Presented at Small Farm Tech Expo

December 10, 2025

Photo depicts a vendor demonstrating a drone on the UC Merced campus.

The Small Farm Tech Expo brought researchers, farmers, university students and even a group from a Modesto elementary school to UC Merced to talk about agriculture technology and how it can best help those who grow the world's food. Sponsored by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers,...

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Depicted is a sign reading "UC Merced Experimental Smart Farm" with the university campus in the background.

Ag Tech For Small Farms Highlighted at UC Merced Expo

An expo at UC Merced next week will bring together farmers, ranchers, researchers and community organizers to highlight what's possible when agriculture technology is designed for small farms...

Photo depicts Ph.D. student Lynn Breithaupt holding up a native plant cutting.

Sow and Grow Workshops Connect Smart Farm, Community

On a chilly autumn morning at the UC Merced Experimental Smart Farm, about a dozen people enthusiastically dug/plunged their hands into soil in an exercise on how to propagate plants. For the less...

Old Friends and Bold Art Inspire UC Merced Professor’s Latest Film

They are longtime friends, united by a passion for art and a stubborn determination not to compromise their unconventional styles. Their brushes paint scenes of fieldhands and crops coalescing in...

Winery Executive Stephanie Gallo Joins UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees

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Agricultural Leader Jay Mahil Appointed to UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees

Community leader and Creekside Company co-owner Jay Mahil has been named to the UC Merced Foundation Board of Trustees. A fourth-generation farmer and the first in his family born in the United...

United for Education: Merced Institutions Forge a Stronger Future Together at UC Merced Summit

In an unprecedented show of unity, leaders from Merced City School District, Merced Union High School District, Merced College and UC Merced came together to discuss how continued collaboration can...

Three-year Grant Lifts Joy Provided by UC Merced Children’s Opera

UC Merced Children’s Opera, a performance that delights and enlightens thousands of schoolchildren a year while giving Bobcat students experience in theater, has received support from a...

UC Merced to Host Stargazing Night with Director of UC Observatories

UC Merced invites the public to an evening of cosmic discovery on Thursday, Oct. 23, featuring a free lecture by Bruce Macintosh, director of the University of California Observatories, followed by...

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