Mellon Farms – Yuma, Arizona celebrates 75 years of family farming excellence. Yuma, Arizona – February 2020 – Mellon Farms founded in 1945 is celebrating a milestone anniversary of 75 years of being stewards of the land they farm as well as having provided families across this great country the highest quality fresh winter vegetables […]
Mention artificial intelligence and Tom Sawyer comes to mind, someone who wanted to work smarter, not harder, and was willing to hand the actual work over to someone — or now, something — else to get the job done. AI and machine learning are becoming pervasive on, in, under, and above farmlands across the country […]
(BPT) – Smartphone? Check. GPS? Check. Seed, fertilizer and tractor? Check. Welcome to the world of modern agriculture, where high-tech is the rule and savvy millennials are in demand as U.S. agriculture embraces the many challenges of feeding a growing world. (Read More)
Just about everyone in Yuma knows that the county boasts a multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry that feeds the nation during the winter months. What they might not know is that it could be the global epicenter of desert agriculture innovation, an important focus considering 40 percent of the world’s ag production is in arid climates. (Read […]
Field demonstrations of new and developing farming equipment dominated the first morning of the Southwest Agriculture Summit Wednesday, with about a dozen devices in various stages of development and marketing going on test runs at Arizona Western College. Leigh Loughead, agriculture science manager at AWC and the announcer for the demo event, said any implements […]
Its mission is simple. “Our job is to promote and protect the Yuma produce industry,” said Bruce Gwynn, executive director of the Yuma Fresh Vegetable Association. Back in 1947 — when it was established by Ted McDaniel, Floyd Newcomer, J.L. Coyer, H.P. Fites and Wilton Woods — YFVA was solely a vehicle to lobby the […]
It is 80 miles long, irrigates more than half a million acres of farmland and provides water service to more than 150,000 residents — and now, the All-American Canal System is also a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. (Read More)
About 14 state legislators were among more than 30 people who took a biannual tour Friday of Yuma’s agricultural scene targeting state leaders, who also got lunch with the governor as a last-minute addition to the schedule. The jaunt hosted by the Yuma Area Agricultural Council has become a December tradition, in odd years offered […]
The Yuma County Chamber of Commerce selected Shelley Jones Mellon as its Member of the Year and Dan Shay as its Small Businessperson of the Year at their Annual Awards & Installation Dinner Friday night. Jones Mellon, president of RL Jones Insurance Services, is a founding member of San Luis Rotary, a board member of […]
A wet, drawn-out rainstorm soaked the Yuma area with more than half an inch of rain Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, with about a 50/50 chance of more this weekend. All the moisture left area growers and field workers struggling with a muddy mess to work around as the produce season begins to head […]