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The Natural Choice for Cheese Visit us at Summer Fancy Food Lower Level Booth 5769 US contact: McKenna Marketing on (415) 621 2569 petersyard.com Authentic Swedish Provenance 6. New-School Crop Management Agricultural practices are constantly evolving, with water management, planting, and even harvesting becoming automated. Now drones and tiny wireless sensors are being utilized to help improve production in everything from grain to grapes. Student start-up Amber Agriculture has introduced technology that monitors stored grains. Amber uses pellet-sized wireless sensors that are spread across the bin to monitor carbon dioxide, volatile organic com- pounds, temperature, and humidity, with trend lines and alerts of changes being pushed to a smartphone app. Precision farming is the name of the game when it comes to improv- ing yields in California's drought-stricken vineyards. North Carolina- based PrecisionHawk is partnering with Verizon and California's Hahn Estate Winery to deploy drones that collect data to analyze crop health. The aerial drones infer canopy cover to determine crop vigor while ground sensors keep track of temperature and soil moisture. PrecisionHawk is then able to run the data against its own analytics to look for patterns and anomalies and make valuable recommendations to the farmer. food tech for the future 7. Food Photos for Fitness While it doesn't work for everyone, counting calories and keeping a food diary is a proven method of losing weight, and the people behind the diet tracker Lose It! are making it even easier for users to log their meals and snacks. The company recently debuted the Snap It feature, which uses advanced image recognition technology to identify foods and report calorie levels in seconds. When a user takes a photo of a food, the app makes suggestions of what it could be, then offers specific options and serving sizes. After making a few choices, the food is automatically logged. Snap It's technology includes the foods users care about most and is also able to detect multiple foods from a single image. When a user snaps a photo of a sushi dinner, for example, the app can suggest the sushi, wasabi, and ginger in one fell swoop. The user then chooses the type of sushi and how many pieces he or she is eating. Summer Fancy Food Show Booth 5769 60 ❘ SPECIALTY FOOD MAGAZINE specialtyfood.com