Optics Innovations
A New Lens on Agricultural Monitoring
An agri-tech startup aims to increase the quality and efficiency of food-process monitoring in the rural United States.
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For decades, laboratory-based on-site optical analyzers have played an important role in providing key analysis metrics for a range of agricultural produce and processes. Compared with waiting days or weeks for chemistry reports to come back from external labs, on-site optical technologies can report important product information to mill operators, ethanol producers and food processors within minutes.
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