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Mapping the Earth's crops with the help of AI can help farmers and policymakers improve planning

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As agricultural research continues to become more entwined with technology, smart farming—a phrase that encompasses research computing tools that help farmers to better address issues like crop disease, drought and sustainability—has quickly become a ubiquitous term in Ag labs across the country. The availability of NCSA resources like Delta for researchers, both nationally and on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) campus, ha…

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Strategic Farming: Let’s talk crops! session talks drones for field images, diagnosing problems and pesticide application - Montevideo American News

On March 19, Ryan Huffman, Iowa State University Digital Ag Innovation Lab senior research manager and Jorden Kuntz, founder of Biosphere Drone Solutions, joined UMN Extension crops educator Ryan Miller for a discussion about drones in row crop agriculture. This was the penultimate weekly episode of the 2025 Strategic Farming: Let’s talk crops! series of webinars.

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AI Agriculture Boosts Soil, Crops, and Human Health

Hailed as “the beginning of a new era” and “a revolutionary way to improve agriculture,” artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to monitor potato harvests and discover which soil microbes best feed crops. This novel AI tool also can expose past (and current) technological follies and hazards in agriculture. Drone-Farmed Potatoes Potato researchers collected data ... Read more Source

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