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The Daily Beast
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CAM
Agriculture that appears to be more eco-friendly but uses more land may actually have greater environmental costs per unit of food than “high-yield” farming
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University of Illinois
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Scientific American
Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said
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Photosynthesis
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EurekAlert
A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to help plants hold onto water, which could stem the tide of massive annual crop losses from drought and help farmers grow food despite a changing climate.
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ReasonTV
The U.S. Cattlemen's Association petitioned the USDA to declare that "meat" and "beef" exclude products not "slaughtered in the traditional manner."---Subscr...
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Nesta
Novel data rich approaches promise increased farming profits while minimising environmental impact. But how could this change day-to-day life on the farm and what should Government do to support these changes?
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FWI
Bosch-funded start-up company Deepfield Robotics is the latest company to develop a field vehicle that can distinguish weeds from crops and neatly fish
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Bloomberg
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Hackaday
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TechTimes
Panasonic has announced a slew of new robots, one of which can lend a hand to farmers and pick tomatoes. Using sensors and image processing technology, the robot can 'see' the color, shape and size of fruit.
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Climate Change News
Drones, satellites and weed killing lasers could slash the energy used to grow crops, say experts
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MIT Technology Review
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—better known as drones—have been used commercially since the early 1980s. Today, however, practical applications for drones are expanding faster than ever in a variety of industries, thanks to robust investments and the relaxing of some regulations governing their use. Responding to the rapidly evolving technology, companies are creating new business and…
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Stratfor
Agriculture is having a technological revolution of its own.
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The Verge
The rise of autonomous vehicles is a recent trend but self-driving tractors have been in operation for the last 15 years. The Verge's Jordan Golson speaks wi...
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ZDNet
CNH Industrial revealed its concept for a self-driving tractor that farmers control via tablet or computer. Naturally, we had to ask whether this robotic farmer would steal jobs from human workers.
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Modern Farmer
Farm. Food. Life.
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IEEE
New U.S. rules for commercial drones will benefit farmers and the drone industry
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Newser
"Robot-obsessed Japan" is how Phys.org describes a country bent on automation, and its latest agricultural efforts seem to back that claim up. The world's first robot-run farm will be... Green News Summaries. | Newser
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Modern Farmer
It's made using some old videogame parts.
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Popular Mechanics
The robot uses advanced sensors and artificial intelligence to maximize its tomato-picking speed.
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Fraunhofer
Automation-intensive sectors such as the automotive industry are not the only
ones to rely on robots. In more and more agricultural settings, automation
systems are superseding strenuous manual labor. As part of the EU’s CATCH
project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology
IPK is developing and testing a dual-arm robot for the automated harvesting
of cucumbers. Th
ones to rely on robots. In more and more agricultural settings, automation
systems are superseding strenuous manual labor. As part of the EU’s CATCH
project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology
IPK is developing and testing a dual-arm robot for the automated harvesting
of cucumbers. Th
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Wired
The multitalented Dot Power Platform could raise crop yields 70 percent by 2050.
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BBC
Farmers are turning to robots to plant seedlings and pick produce because of human worker shortages.
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Radio NZ
A drone flying farmer says since bringing the technology on-farm, herding his livestock has become much less arduous.
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Reuters
In a field of sugar beet in Switzerland, a solar-powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, identifies weeds and zaps them with jets of blue liquid from its mechanical tentacles.
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Syracuse
Company says it's the first time a drone has been used to pollinate an apple orchard.
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CNBC
Smart weed-killing robots are here and could soon reduce the need for herbicides and genetically modified crops. Swiss company EcoRobotix has a solar-powered robot that can work for up to 12 hours detecting and destroying weeds. Ecorobotix says the robot uses 20 times less herbicide than traditional methods. Blue River Technology has a See and Spray robot that uses a library of images to identify
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Techcrunch
In the very near future, robots are going to be picking the vegetables that appear on grocery store shelves across America. The automation revolution that’s arrived on the factory floor will make its way to the ag industry in the U.S. and its first stop will likely be the indoor farms that are now dotting […]
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CNBC
Bear Flag robotics is making autonomous tractors to help farmers make more food with fewer people.
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CNBC
Bear Flag robotics is making autonomous tractors to help farmers make more food with fewer people.
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Salon
AgriTech startups are booming. Their aim isto use fewer pesticides and produce cleaner, better food
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CNBC
"Sweeper" uses a combination of cameras and computer vision to determine if a pepper is ripe and ready to be picked.
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New Yorker
Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
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New China TV
Watch how China's driverless "super tractors" conduct test runs in the fields in Henan Province.
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NYU
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McKinsey
Smart agriculture suppliers are giving farmers what every consumer wants: a digital interface for speed and convenience and human interaction when they need it. Here’s how they’re doing it.
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Scientific American
Solar arrays placed in agricultural fields can benefit both energy and crop production
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GreenBiz
Articial intelligence and big data may help produce more food, use less water, limit resource consumption, redirect food waste and reduce food prices.
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The Toronto Star
AI is now helping farmers across the country to increase yields, save costs and minimize environmental damage. Instead of spreading fertilizer across ...
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VentureBeat
IBM's Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture taps AI and internet of things devices to predict crop prices, combat pests, and more.
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Time
China is racing to become the world leader in Artificial Intelligence and the nation's AI farms are where the struggle is being waged.
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Nature
Growing demand for agricultural commodities for food, fuel and other uses is expected to be met through an intensification of production on lands that are currently under cultivation. Intensification typically entails investments in modern technology — such as irrigation or fertilizers — and increases in cropping frequency in regions suitable for multiple growing seasons. Here we combi
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MIT Technology Review
Somewhere on a dairy farm in Wellsville, Utah, are three cyborg cows, indistinguishable from the rest of the herd. Just like the other cows, they eat, drink, and chew their cud. Occasionally, they walk over to a big, spinning red-and-black brush, suspended at bovine back height, for a scratch. But while the rest of the…
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Global News
Generations of farmers have relied on knowledge and family expertise to grow food, but the sector is set for a surge of disruption at the hands of made-in-Canada artificial intelligence-powered systems.
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NPR
Laser beams that sweep erratically across crops have shown promise in protecting harvests from loss caused by birds. But researchers are still studying whether the beams may harm the animals' retinas.
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Forbes
Hummingbird Technologies turns pictures of fields into instructions for tractors, and says it can cut farming costs by as much as 10%.
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Singularity University
Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Partner, Flagship PioneeringThe combination of data and innovation means we can have the ability to feed our growing global population...
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How self-driving tractors, AI, and precision agriculture will save us from the impending food crisis
Tech Republic
Go inside the race to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit planet earth in 2050. See how John Deere and others are working to change the equation before it's too late.
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The Guardian
For some farmers in New Zealand, Britain and Australia, drones are not just a toy theyre an increasingly vital tool
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BBC
Just four crops - wheat, maize, rice and soybean - provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. But Malaysian scientists want to change that with the help of 'forgotten' varieties.
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Tech Insider
It could represent the future of farming.
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Business Insider
From apple-picking robots, to machine learning and wearable tech — these companies are changing the way we grow our food.
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The Guardian
With fears over long delays, high trade tariffs and a lack of migrant workers, here’s what firms are doing
