{"id":7147,"date":"2025-06-17T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7147"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:05:00","slug":"20250617en","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/news\/20250617en\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Skeepon&#8221; Featured in California local newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tokyo, Japan \u2013 May 30, 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 Ac-Planta Inc. (Head Office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Jong-Myong Kim) We are excited to share that our flagship product\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skeepon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was featured in a front-page article of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Democrat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a leading local newspaper in California, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Published on May 29, the article\u2014titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYolo County Farmer Gains Attention with Climate-Resilient Farming Technologies\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014spotlights Ray Yeung, a tomato grower in Yolo County, California, who is embracing advanced agricultural technologies to address extreme heat and water stress. The piece introduces his use of AI-based irrigation systems as well as his successful integration of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skeepon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into field operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile other products try to change the environment around the plant, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skeepon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> changes the plant itself,\u201d Yeung told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Democrat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He emphasised the biostimulant\u2019s ability to reduce transplant shock and improve heat resilience\u2014key advantages in California\u2019s increasingly harsh farming conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ac-Planta is honoured that Mr. Yeung\u2019s use of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Skeepon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was featured as part of an innovative response to climate change in U.S. agriculture. We remain committed to supporting growers worldwide with solutions that enhance plant resilience and ensure stable food production under extreme environmental stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read the full article here:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydemocrat.com\/2025\/05\/29\/from-the-fields-ray-yeung-yolo-county-farmer\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.dailydemocrat.com\/2025\/05\/29\/from-the-fields-ray-yeung-yolo-county-farmer\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan \u2013 May 30, 2025 \u2013 Ac-Planta Inc. (Head Office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Jong-Myong Kim) We are excited to share that our flagship product\u00a0 Skeepon was featured in a front-page article of the Daily Democrat, a leading local newspaper in California, USA. Published on May 29, the article\u2014titled \u201cYolo County Farmer Gains Attention with Climate-Resilient Farming Technologies\u201d\u2014spotlights Ray Yeung, a tomato grower in Yolo County, California, who is embracing advanced agricultural technologies to address extreme heat and water stress. The piece introduces his use of AI-based irrigation systems as well as his successful integration of Skeepon into field operations. \u201cWhile other products try to change the environment around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7144,"template":"","news_category":[40,37,35],"class_list":["post-7147","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-overseas-business-trip","news_category-user-interviews-en","news_category-overseas-case-studies-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7147\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-planta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}