Farmers have long been using technology to measure yields, monitor plant growth and adjust application rates for seed, fertilizer and pesticides. Those practices are accumulating massive amounts of ...

Specialty crops may never rival row crops in the number of acres planted, but there’s no reason they can’t use the same technological advances – such as big data. In the United States, the specialty ...

Five federally funded AI institutes provide a backbone for agriculture-focused AI research. The grand challenge facing global agriculture today is the need to increase food production to feed a ...

For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to predict nature. Now, a new generation of Latin American start-ups is helping to achieve this with artificial intelligence tools that promise an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about innovation, finance, energy, climate and sustainability. Managing agricultural emissions is a concern that is rising ...

Case School of Engineering PhD candidate Olatunde Akanbi’s agricultural and geospatial research synthesis involves so much data that a regular computer would crash trying to process it. Monitoring ...

Smart agriculture refers to the use of technologies such as IoT, sensors, location systems, automation, robotics and AI/ML on farms. The main goal of smart agriculture is greater efficiency and ...

Need for greater resilience of supply chain behind McDonald's strategy to adopt regenerative agriculture Company piloting numerous trials to see which novel technologies can scale cost-effectively One ...