July 27, 2021 | CAHNRS News Precision ag scientist Lav Khot named to Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40 Class. Lav Khot, associate professor and precision agriculture scientist at Washington State University, was named to the Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40 Awards’ Class of 2021. Created by Fruit Growers News, the awards honor outstanding leaders and […]
May 5, 2021 | The Good Fruit Washington State University announced that professor Lav Khot will serve as interim director for AgWeatherNet. AgWeatherNet is the system of weather stations and climate data tools that support growers across the state. Khot, an associate professor at WSU’s Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS), said the […]
May 5, 2021 Abhilash Chandel is one of three graduate students to win $1,000 CAHNRS Graduate Student Leadership Award. This award is supported by a generous donation by Mike and Kathy Hambelton. Dean Andre-Denis G. Wright writes about Abhilash Chandel, “I am delighted that you were selected for this honor. The contributions and efforts that […]
November 09, 2020 | IEEE MetroAgriFor 2020 Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher – The IEEE MetroAgriFor 2020 announces the Conference Award to the research group, Rakesh Ranjan, Rajeev Sinha, Lav R. Khot, R. Troy Peters, Melba R. Salazar-Gutierrez, all from Washington State University, USA. This was awarded to the group for the paper […]
October 15, 2019 | Good Fruit Grower Spray without the sprayer – To get good coverage, researchers modified low-cost irrigation emitters to bounce a cone of spray up into the grapevine canopy as part of a trial to optimize the engineering of a solid-set spray delivery system for vineyards underway at the Washington State University’s […]
August 13, 2019 | California Dutch AgFoodTech Collaboration Update #17 The summer vacation period was in between the last newsletter in July and this one. We used this period to prepare important next steps for the project. One of these steps was adding Washington State to the initiative, Peter Frans de Jong of Wageningen University […]
August 13, 2019 | WSU Insider Experts from WSU, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, Microsoft FarmBeats and ASI Robots will share updates on cutting-edge agricultural advances with growers, agricultural industry professionals, and crop consultants. This year’s event explores the theme of automation in specialty crop production, and includes field demonstrations and discussions […]
February 15, 2019 | Good Fruit Grower Against the gray, late-autumn sky, it’s hard to miss the green plume spraying into the dormant orchard. It’s a very colorful solution to a nearly invisible problem. Underlying every pesticide label regulation lie complex calculations of risk to protect workers, bystanders and the environment from drift. But the […]
February 7, 2019 | Pullman, WA BSE graduate students in the Agricultural Automation Engineering research area Haitham Bahlol and Rajeev Sinha presented their work on “Horticultural oil thermotherapy for pear psyllid management”. During the event, Rajeev Sinha spoke to CAHNRS Dean Wright at the 2019 BioAg Symposium Their poster was awarded the ‘Best Graduate Poster Award’ with […]
February 4, 2019 | The Daily Evergreen A WSU assistant professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering received a $300,000 grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to research pesticide use on crops. Lav Khot said he and his team are researching ways to reduce the use of broad-spectrum pesticides on crops, […]