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We're looking forward to meeting other innovators at Fresno State's Center for Irrigation Technology AgTech Day this Friday October 29th. Come and meet us at the Water Energy Technology (WET) Center or virtually if you can't make it!

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Win-Win scenarios advance the fight against climate change by aligning incentives for behavior that prevents or removes carbon from entering the atmosphere. In these small scale pilots farmers get paid to sequester carbon and large input providers like Cargill, Nutrien, Yara Myanmar advance their ESG goals. At Sweetsense Inc.we're excited to see this approach be adopted across agriculture.

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Dollars in the dirt: Big Ag pays farmers for control of their soil-bound carbon The biggest global agriculture companies are competing on a new front: enticing farmers to join programs that keep atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide in the soil.

We're big fans of sound investment in infrastructure including programs like these that compensate agriculture and their communities for conserving water. Everyone wins when we take a long-term sustainable outlook to the natural resources millions of people and billions of dollars of industry rely upon.

Infrastructure Bill Seen as Way to Pay Farmers to Cut Water Use Four states in the drought-wracked West considering whether to pay farmers to cut their water use see federal infrastructure legislation as a possible revenue source.

Can automation technologies help CA agriculture reduce their costs to operate without fundamentally changing how they grow our food? At SweetSense we continue to innovate around automation and data to help them adapt to a the challenges ahead.

California’s rising costs for water quality have bumped fees 130% An agriculture coalition is raising pressure on Gov. Newsom to approve taxpayer dollars to subsidize public environmental benefits.

Some rain is good to see during these historic drought conditions but more is needed - "The state will need to receive 140% of its annual rainfall this winter to get normal runoff into reservoirs, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Water Resources. The last two years have been so dry that much of the water will soak into the arid soil before the ground is saturated enough to produce sizeable runoff in creeks and rivers."

Atmospheric river storms to soak Bay Area, Northern California — biggest in 9 months The storms are forecast to bring the most rain to the Bay Area since January.

SweetSense is developing tools to help farmers balance the needs of climate change and growing affordable healthy food. A lot of innovation and collaboration will need to take place in the coming decade to keep these two forces in balance.

Amanda Little column: Climate change already is shocking our food chain By Amanda Little

Thanks for the coverage from Morning Brew highlighting out work with Swarm Technologies. They enable our work monitoring critical water and energy infrastructure all over the world.

How sandwich-sized satellites are helping transmit data from remote locations SpaceX recently bought Swarm, the leading CubeSat maker. Here's what CubeSats do