Talk:Timeline of agriculture and food technology

History of US West Coast Organic Food Movement
I just wanted to put this here from the history and let whoever created it know why... this timeline is supposed to be of agriculture and food technology's history in the entire world, and including only the most important events. If a very few of the following subjects have articles and are of more than local imporatance, they should be added back in. But list of all the farms and people involved in the U.S. west coast organic movement either needs a separate list (which you can create) or should stay out of this one. Steven Walling 23:00, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

California'
Happy Valley Apple Farm -- Bill Denevan Harmony Farm Supply _- Kate Burroughs and David Henry Heinke Natural Juice Company --John Heinke Hoes Down Harvest Festival -- Full Belly Farm Hoon's Gardens-- Amigo Bob Cantisano and Jan (Kalita) Todd Hoot 'n Annies --Richie and Annie Marks Inner Sunset Food Coop International Tree Crops Institute--Henry Esbenshade Isao Fujimoto, UC Davis Rural Sociologist, Alternative Resource Center Jack LaLanne Jimbo's Natural Foods John Standish Johnson Brothers Farm (later Woolley Farms) -- Brad Johnson Knudsen Juice Kokx Ranch -- Laurie Kokx LaRocca Vineyards—Phil and Judy LaRocca Live Foods -- Franz Weaver Llasha Karnak Herbs Lou Falcon Lundberg Family Farms -- Eldon, Wendell, Harlan and Homer Lundberg Mark Cassidy Michael Maltas Miller’s Raw Milk Dairy Molino Creek Farming Collective -- Mark Lipson, Thomas Wittman Monterey Market--Bill Fujimoto Mother Truckers -- Michael Baranowski Mountain Peoples Warehouse (later United Natural Foods, Inc) Michael Fink, Lee May, Michael Magleby Nature’s Herbs New Age Distributing -- Fred Rohe New Age Natural Foods -- Fred Rohe New Era Farm Service – Chuck Swift Nick Pasqual Noe Valley Food Coop North Tahoe Natural Foods Buying Club -- Amigo Bob Cantisano and Ed Kitchen Northern California Cooperative Association Odwalla Olala Farm _- Robyn Martin and Arlo Acton, North San Juan On The Market Organic Garden Center—David Pace Organic Market News and Information Service (OMNIS) -- Jill Auburn, Amigo Bob Cantisano, Will Allen Organic Merchants (OM) -- Fred Rohe Pavich Family Farms -- Steve and Tom Pavich Peaceful Valley Farm -- Amigo Bob Cantisano,  Jan (Kalita) Todd, Richie Marks, Annie Console Peaceful Valley Farm Supply -- Amigo Bob Cantisano Peoples Grocery Petrik Laboratories – Valclav Petrik Pike Mt. Apple Orchard _ Molly Breen and Dan Guyer Qoung Hop Tofu Rachael Carson Rainbow Distributing-Richmond Rainbow Foods Red Star Cheese Red Circle trucking-Serge-Covelo Co-op Redwood HIll Dairy Rincon Vitova Insectary--Everett "Deke' Dietrich Rock Island Natural Foods  Rodale Press—Floyd Allen  Round Mt. Farming Collective  Rudolph Steiner College – Harold Hoven  S.F. Alemany Farmers Market  Sacramento Natural Foods Coop  Sacramento Peoples Produce -- Michael Funk  Sacramento Real Food Company -- Mark Yaksik  San Francisco Common Operating Warehouse  San Francisco Herb Company  Santa Cruz Natural Juice Company  Santa Cruz Trucking  Senate Bill 872- UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)   Paul Muller, Howard Beeman, Amigo Bob Cantisano, Senator Nicholas Petris  Short Night Farm – Jeff and Pat McAravy  Sierra People Produce  -- Lee May  Smith and Hawken  __ David Smith, Paul Hawken  Star Route Farm--Warren Weber  Starr Farms  -- Gus Rouse, Monty Rouse, Linda Rouse, Amigo Bob Cantisano, Jan (Kalita) Todd  Steering Committee for Sustainable Agriculture (later Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, later Ecological Farming Association)  Amigo Bob Cantisano, Elizabeth MArtin, Bill Olkowski, Dru Rivers Stereoscope Bakery Stuart Fishman, Rainbow Grocery, Veritable Vegetable Sunburst Farms SuperNatural Foods -- Joe Morasco Terra Viva Apple Farm The Diggers The Well, Pure and Simple Thom's Natural Foods Three Beemans Farm -- Howard Beeman, Susan Pelican Timbercrest Farms Tony Scherr Transitional Farming Conferences -- Mariposa Guido, Amigo Bob Cantisano Tree Crops Nursery UC Berkeley Gil Tract Biological Control Division -- Robert van den Bosch, Leo Caltagirone, Lou Falcon, Bill and Helga Olkoswki UC Davis Student Farm — Dru Rivers UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden - Alan Chadwick, Paige Smith United Natural Foods-Arcata-Jethern Phippips Van Dyke Ranch --Betty, Peter, Kurt, Eric Van Dyke Veritable Vegetable Vital Vittles Watermelon Poisoning Incident We The People Natural Foods Cooperative -- Amigo Bob Cantisano, Jan (Kalita) Todd Westbrae Natural Foods Whole Earth Catalog – Stuart Brand Will Allen Woodland Food Coop Zuckerman Farms
 * A.B. Pagala
 * Acres, USA— Charles "Chuck" Walters, Jr.
 * Adam's Olives and Citrus - Fred Adams
 * Alan Chadwick, UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden
 * Alar Sunday
 * Alta Dena Dairy
 * Andriotti Farm—Dino Andriotti
 * Andy Scott & Carolyn Brown
 * Apple Farm—Tim Bates and Karen Schmidt
 * Association of Applied Insect Ecologists (AAIE)
 * Auburn Food Coop
 * Bargyla Rateaver
 * Barney Bricmont, CCOF
 * Bill Jessup
 * Bio Integral Resource Center (BIRC) -- Bill and Helga Olkowski, Sheila Darr
 * Briarpatch Coop
 * Caesar Chavez (UFW boycotted Pavitch Organic)
 * Cal Slewing
 * California Agrarian Action Network (CAN) (aka California Agrarian Action Project) -- Elizabeth "Izzy" Martin
 * California Certified Organic Farmers
 * California Organic Foods Act of 1979
 * California Organic Growers
 * Camp Joy – Jim and Beth Nelson
 * Cannard Farm – Bob Cannard
 * Capay Fruits and Vegetables – Martin Barnes and Kathleen Barsotti
 * Captain Carrot--Cary Nosler
 * Chez Panisse — Alice Waters
 * Chico Natural Foods Coop
 * Chico San
 * Circle I Farm—Zea Sonnabend, Leslie Weidman, Rick Ensley, Malcolm Dorn
 * Common Ground/Ecology Action--John Jeavons, Willits
 * Cooportunity – Santa Monica
 * Covelo GArden - Alan Chadwick, Steve and Gloria DeCauter
 * David Gardener (later David Posner)
 * Davis Food Coop - Martin Barnes, Ann Evans, Annie Main
 * Desert Center Grape Farm - Evan Engber, Johnnie Coons
 * Desiderata Picking Collective -- Paul Paterson, Lee May
 * Detroit Pond-Sy Wiseman
 * Dharma Distributing-Franz Weaver
 * Down To Earth/Wolters Farm -- Russell and Karen Wolters
 * Dr. Robert van den Bosch
 * Earth Day 1970
 * Earth Trine Farm __ Robert "BD" Dautch
 * Ecological Farming Conference
 * Eddie Albert
 * Effie May
 * Enterprise Vineyards – Phil Coturri
 * Epperson Family Farm --Ron Epperson
 * Erewhon -- Paul Hawken
 * Esalen --Steve Beck
 * Famines End -- Brian Fitzpatrick
 * Ferrari Farms --George and Wayne Ferrari
 * Fitzpatrick Wiinery—Brian and Diane Fitzpatrick
 * Food Bin- Oakland
 * Fowler Brothers __ Terry and Brian Fowler
 * Fred Rohe
 * Frey Winery—Frey Family
 * Full Belly Farm --Dur Rivers, Paul Muller, Judith Redmond, Raoul Adamchak
 * Full Circle Farm
 * General Feed and Seed-Santa Cruz
 * George Stevens and Sarah Adkinson
 * Giusto's Specialty Foods, Mill and Bakery -- Al Guisto
 * Golden Age Bee Farm -- Gus, Monty and Linda Rouse
 * Good Earth Apple Farm
 * Good Humus Produce – Jeff and Annie Main
 * Good Karma Cafe -- Fred Rohe
 * Good Morning Natural Foods, Nevada City
 * Green Gulch Farm and Zen Center --Peter Rudnick and Wendy Johnson
 * Gypsy Boots

Oregon
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) -- Norma Greer Oregon Tilth --Yvonne Frost Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) Organically Grown Cooperative (later Company) -- Lively Brothers, Robert deSpain Pacific Botanicals--Mark Wheeler Peace Seeds-Alan Kapuler (aka Mushroom), Linda Kapuler Royal Blue Organics -- Dahinda Meda Springfield Creamery -- Kesey Family Sunflower Trucking Collective Winter Green Farm -- Jack Gray, Wali Via

Washington
Anne Schwartz Cascadian Farm--Gene Kahn Charlie's Produce-Diane Dempster Mark Musick Nash's Produce--Nash Huber The Future Is Abundant Trout Lake Farm--Lon Johnson Washington Tilth Woody Derycxk

Assessment comment
Substituted at 21:35, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Please update with items post 2000
The article is missing items post 2000. I think in many cases it should be kept broad, for example having a larger item or multi-item for precision agriculture and for digital agriculture. The following is likely too detailed as is (but "laserweeding" probably should be mentioned and wikilinked in said multi-item), recently featured this in 2022 in science:

"News outlets report about a novel agricultural robot for viable weed control using lasers or 'laserweeding'. There are similar precision agriculture machines that have been reported before, also e.g. applying low amounts of herbicides and fertilizers with precision while mapping plant locations, in some cases autonomously. Their benefits may include 'healthier crops and soil, decreased herbicide use, and reduced chemical and labor costs'."

It may also be worth considering whether such content should go into a separate article like 21st century agriculture and food technology, with only e.g. the most relevant items or summaries being featured here or content getting transcluded here from there.

Once coverage has improved and the article is up to date, it could be added to the box of timelines at the top of 2022 in science (like Timeline of psychology) if there is at least 1 item on average for the years of the 2020s.

Some of the content may best be added as an informative chart, such as one with statistics about the adoption and development of agricultural robots.

Moreover, I don't think this is worth mentioning there, at least in the form as is:

"2005 – Lasers used to replace stickers by writing on food to 'track and trace' and identify individual pieces of fresh fruit."

Maybe a broader, slightly larger item for Produce traceability&Product information developments could get added.

More relevant items can probably found at
 * Sustainable food system
 * Pesticide
 * Sustainable packaging
 * Genetically modified crops & CRISPR gene editing
 * and, especially, Bioeconomy
 * For example, cellular agriculture and cultured meat is not even mentioned here yet, albeit it could be added before these yield widespread commercialized products (once that happens the items could still get replaced if needed).
 * See for example or especially: Microbial food cultures & Single-cell protein & Algaculture & Animal feed

Lastly, the article seems to be missing at least some other basic inventions and developments such as that of the oven, According to that article:

"The earliest ovens were found in Central Europe, and date back to 29,000 BC."

See also Timeline of prehistory.

Prototyperspective (talk) 17:55, 6 December 2022 (UTC)