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Mission Produce to deliver corporate campus in Oxnard

By   /  Friday, May 30th, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Real Estate, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Mission Produce to deliver corporate campus in Oxnard

As sales plump up at Oxnard-based avocado marketer Mission Produce, the company has started construction on a new 20-acre corporate campus.

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Ceres plans to license corn-derived gene patent

By   /  Friday, May 16th, 2014  /  Agribusiness, East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Ceres plans to license corn-derived gene patent

Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm Ceres has been granted a patent on a gene sequence derived from corn and plans to license the patent to big seed companies.

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Counting crops: Linkfresh makes planning software for food firms

By   /  Friday, May 9th, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Counting crops: Linkfresh makes planning software for food firms

A Ventura company is bringing the same kind of sophisticated software that global manufacturers use to run their businesses to the fresh food industry.

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Spilling the beans on Ventura County’s lima legacy

By   /  Friday, May 2nd, 2014  /  Agribusiness, East Ventura County, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Spilling the beans on Ventura County’s lima legacy

Before there were strawberries, lemons and avocados, the lima bean dominated agriculture on Ventura County’s coastal plain for nearly a century.

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Calavo gets $10M for FreshRealm food delivery platform

By   /  Thursday, May 1st, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Banking & Finance, East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Calavo gets $10M for FreshRealm food delivery platform

Santa Paula-based Calavo Growers has received $10 million in funding and named a CEO for its FreshRealm food distribution platform, it said on Thursday. Michael Lippold, who is the former director of strategic development at Calavo, will lead the new venture, which is based in Ventura. FreshRealm, a new cloud-hosted technology platform that connects growers, Read More →

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Location, location is key to drought outlook for region’s vintners

By   /  Friday, April 18th, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Central Coast, Small Business, Tourism, Tri-County Economy, Wine & Viticulture  /  Comments Off on Location, location is key to drought outlook for region’s vintners

California’s production of wine grapes is likely to decline this year after record yields in 2012 and 2013, but it’s uncertain whether the booming Central Coast will join in the slide.

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Irrigation technology firm raises $3.5M

By   /  Thursday, April 3rd, 2014  /  Agribusiness, Central Coast, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Irrigation technology firm raises $3.5M

San Luis Obispo-based Hortau, a company that makes cloud-based irrigation control systems for farmers, has raised $3.5 million in financing from Avrio Capital.