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12/22/2020 SOURCE: www.fastcompany.com

Smart farming: The growing role of precision agriculture and biotech

Efficiency and sustainability go hand-in-hand, with an added bonus: farmers improve crop yields

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Topics: Soybeans, Education U.S. MidWest, Drones UAV, Ag Innovation, World Population, Plant Breeding,

Drones and AI detect soybean maturity with high accuracy

URBANA, Ill. – Walking rows of soybeans in the mid-summer heat is an exhausting but essential chore in breeding new cultivars. Researchers brave the heat daily during crucial parts of the growing season to look for plants showing desirable traits, such as early pod maturity. But without a way to automate detection of these traits, breeders can’t test as many plots as they’d like in a given year, elongating the time it takes to bring new cultivars to market.

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Economics, Drones UAV, Ag India, Ag Innovation,

Drone-a-thon 2020: How ‘Made in India’ drones could help revolutionise agriculture, health sector

Drones can be used as a crucial tool to benefit law enforcement in the future and there have been few examples already where the technology has been used to spot the offenders

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Topics: Drones UAV, Ag India, Ag Innovation, World Hunger, World Population,

Drone-a-thon 2020: How ‘Made in India’ drones could help revolutionise agriculture, health sector

Drones can be used as a crucial tool to benefit law enforcement in the future and there have been few examples already where the technology has been used to spot the offenders

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Economics, Drones UAV, Sustainability, Research, Ag Tech, Education,

Robots in Agriculture: Council for Agricultural Science and Technology | Grainnet

In a new issue paper published on Nov. 16, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) outlined opportunities provided by ground and aerial…

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Topics: Commodities, Markets/Pricing, Livestock/Meat, Crop Consultant, Economics, Drones UAV, Sustainability, Beef Cattle, Ag Tech, Ag Innovation, World Hunger, World Population, Ag Australia/NZ,

Coronavirus reveals need to bridge the digital divide | UNCTAD

The global crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has pushed us further into a digital world, and changes in behaviour are likely to have lasting effects when the economy starts to pick up. But not everyone is ready to embrace a more digitized existence.

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Topics: Agriculture US, Crop Consultant, Drones UAV, Sustainability, Ag Tech, Ag Innovation, Weather,

Broadband Connectivity Advancements for Rural America | AgAmerica

Learn more about the digital divide that exists within rural communities and why closing this gap is critical for the future of American agriculture.

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Topics: Wheat, Precision AG , Agriculture US, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Drones UAV, Sustainability, Research, Ag Innovation,

Unmanned aerial vehicles help wheat breeders

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 - Breeding programs for crops with limited per-plant seed yield require one or more generations of seed increase to generate sufficient quantities for sowing replicated yield trials. The ability

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Topics: Jobs, Fruit, Economics, Drones UAV, Ag Tech, Ag Innovation, World Population, Ag Middle East,

Fresh fruit picked from the tree by Israeli robots

10 percent of fruit worldwide rots on the trees. Tevel Aerobotics combines aeronautics, robotics and artificial intelligence to pick it

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