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Despite the benefits of artificial intelligence, there are downsides to all of this head-spinning technological progress.

The way produce is grown, stored, shipped, and sold has already been changed by artificial intelligence technology.

Drones, cameras, robots, sensors, and assorted gizmos, as well as complex algorithms, are covering the produce supply chain like a comfortable blanket, making it easier for operators to zoom in on profitability and monitor product quality.

As the start of 2024 races into focus, this is both a season of thanksgiving for what’s been accomplished and a season of hope for what’s to come.

When fresh product arrives at destination warm, some predictable and unpleasant things tend to happen: first, the receiver objects.

Water shortages are not just a concern for agriculture or the Western states. Twenty-five countries, containing a quarter of the world’s population, face extremely high water stress, according to the World Resources Institute.

The water woes of the Western states have attracted a great deal of attention, but Texas faces similar issues.

The Yuma Valley, near the border between Arizona and California, and the Imperial Valley, in the southernmost part of the state, are also key producers of fruits and vegetables.

Outsiders sometimes think that California’s Salinas Valley—which touts itself, with some justice, as the nation’s salad bowl—is part of the Central Valley, but that’s not the case.

After the water projects that divert rainfall and snowpack, the second major source of agricultural water in the West comes from underground.