The Australian state of Victoria will help farmers establish network connectivity on their farms. The first step is a trial that will allow thousands of sensors to be connected to the internet. Farmers will get access to real-time data to improve their productivity, efficiency and sustainability.
Unless you’ve been lucky enough to be stranded on a desert island for the past few years, you’re no doubt aware that the farming industry is on the cusp of a so-called ‘technological revolution’. The enabler of this revolution: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Scientists have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time.
Robovision develops and hires out artificial ‘brains’. These make it very easy for companies to automate complex production systems and machinery, such as a combine harvester. We spoke to Jonathan Berte, the (human!) brain behind the Belgian company Robovision.
It's become an all-too-common tale: An introduced insect takes hold in a new home and then spreads, wreaking havoc with ecosystems and economies. Take, for instance, the emerald ash borer, an Asian beetle first spotted in North America in 2002; researchers estimate it has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees and caused more than $10 billion in damage.
In the Péloponnèse region of southern Greece, some of the olive trees are a hundred years old and have been farmed via tried and tested methods over the decades; but these time-honoured approaches are now being augmented by Precision Farming.
