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Autonomous Pivot is enabling growers to turn their center-pivot irrigation systems into an army of autonomous AI farming robots by utilizing proprietary sensing of oil & crop, deep learning, and AI for autonomous farming. AP's goal to turn center-pivot irrigation systems into a robotics platform for autonomous irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection, will employ the world’s first on-pivot Ground Penetrating ...
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Carbon credits are in the news recently with the industry marking some significant milestones. Indigo Agriculture announced the first carbon credit purchase commitments from major global brands, including JPMorgan, Barclays, Shopify, and IBM. At the same time, carbon marketplace developer Nori is about to finalize the first high-volume purchase of credits on its platform which, coincidentally is being sold to ...
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Understand this is NOT a Climate Change debate! The big questions in climate change debates are how, why, and when? Are we looking at too short of a data set? Are we simply in some type of different rotational cycle that has caused the change? The list of questions associated with climate change debates can go on and on. But today ...
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The "Ynsect" experimental insect farm in Dole, eastern France, is pictured on February 8, 2018, a facility that produces premium proteins natural ingredients for aquaculture and pet nutrition. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) French startup Ÿnsect is so confident that insects can revolutionize the global food chain that they are building the world's largest bug farm in France. The ...
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While digital tools and the data collected from sensors, spreadsheets and GPS struggle to fully capture agriculture’s complexity, Alphabet’s X lab, the former Google division that launched the Waymo self-driving car unit has unveiled "Mineral", a computational agriculture project working to take agriculture to the next level. "Mineral" is looking to change the current standardized management practices of the crops ...
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NEW "Highly Volatile" Zoom Call: Corona, Crop Prices, the Election, and Investments with Tom Willis and Greg Beck. This is one you don't want to miss as I speak with Tom Willis, CEO at Conestoga Energy; Greg Beck, Senior Vice President of the Grain Division at CGB; and Andy Daniels about some hot topics of debate. Overall, we will be discussing our ...
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Scientists believe the hope of using pig hearts to solve the chronic donor shortage for humans is now truly in reach. The current wait for most patients is six months or longer, a time span many patients don't have the luxury of surviving. A new review of hearts harvested for pigs indicates that these transplants could vastly expedite the process ...
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Cooks Venture had been working in stealth for many years as they bred and raised a proprietary slow-growth, heirloom chicken, taking into account the health of the animal and the health of the environment. Over the last decade, the team has re-imagined how selective breeding is conducted through more natural criteria and heritage lines, which stands in stark contrast to ...
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Argentina just made agricultural history becoming the first country in the world to approve genetically modified wheat. The government approved the HB4 genetically modified drought-resistant wheat by biotechnology firm Bioceres SA, though it may be some time before farmers actually begin growing the new variety as no country in the world accepts GM wheat. Bioceres says marketing won't begin until ...
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Maybe you have already been hit with cold winter temperatures this year, but in Kansas City, we touched 90 this past week and have been in the mid-80's the past several days. We all know winter is right around the corner, so I wanted to provide a handy link to a great source of information on crop and field stress ...
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