Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology – In the News!
by WGCIT Western Growers Center for Innovation
Posted on July 29, 2016 11:31 AM
The Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology [WGCIT] was featured in a wide variety of press throughout the month of July, as anticipation of the Forbes AgTech Summit grew. Coverage and recaps of the Forbes AgTech Summit highlight the WGCIT and Western Growers’ mission to create value to its membership through creating an innovation center where “agriculture meets technology.”
Western Growers and the WGCIT were featured in more than 20 stories including the following:
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Trace Genomics, Inteligistics and specright Speak AgTech at Meetup
by WGCIT Western Growers Center for Innovation
Posted on July 22, 2016 12:49 PM
More than 30 growers, entrepreneurs, agtech enthusiasts and community members gathered on July 19, 2016, for an AgTech Salinas Meetup to learn more about the innovations being developed out of the WG Center for Innovation & Technology. Trace Genomics, specright and Inteligistics spoke about their respective technologies and their experience as finalists in the Thrive Accelerator II program and residents in the Center.
Continue ReadingWestern Growers Awarded $30K from Wells Fargo to Accelerate AgTech Innovation
by WGCIT Western Growers Center for Innovation
Posted on July 14, 2016 09:56 AM
IRVINE, Calif. (July 14, 2016) – Western Growers has received a $30,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to support start-up companies that are developing technologies to solve agriculture’s most critical challenges. The grant was awarded during the opening reception of the 2016 Forbes AgTech Summit on July 13.
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