Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture

Local and state growers and agricultural leaders meet up with ag technology companies to learn about the future of 'smart fields.'

Hosted by Lou Gum, Arizona Edition, KAWC's news program, is our focus on the issues facing Arizona. Through interviews with local newsmakers, KAWC keeps you informed on issues in the region.

Yuma’s winter agriculture season usually ends around April but this year it ended a few weeks early. The COVID-19 pandemic led to industry shutdowns that…

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the local, state and federal response to it are wide ranging, impacting Yuma's biggest and smallest industries.On…

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted many industries, including Yuma’s agriculture business. While farmworkers have stayed on the job during the current…

In Yuma, Arizona, the Colorado River is not what it was. For thousands of years, its raging water deposited rich soil in the delta, creating one of the…

Yuma, Arizona provides the majority of winter leafy greens in the U.S. and Salinas, California grows those same crops in the summer. When harvest periods…

It has been an unusually wet winter thus far for the sunniest city in the world and meteorologists predict the trend will continue. The recent rainfall in…

International accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers recently projected a 32-billion-dollar market for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use in the agriculture…

For decades, industries using rubber have looked for alternatives to supplement and back up their supply. 90% of natural rubber is from trees grown…