AgrotechFrom March 2027 the Swiss maker's ARA sprayer gets 10 new commercial plant-detection models and 55 test models; the company reports an average 86% cut in spray inputs in 2026 trials.
AgrotechDeepMind director Ramine Tinati says AlphaFold is helping build disease-resistant crops, AlphaGenome is mapping resilient sorghum, and a farm-advice programme begun in India is scaling to 11 countries.
AgrotechUS start-up SAGE, led by former tech executive Bill Veghte, prices crop risk for each field instead of county averages, and will offer "precision crop insurance" to corn and soybean growers in 15 states in 2027 with Aon and AgriCap.
VegetablesTaylor Grant, who runs a 30,000-acre potato farm in Rupert, Idaho, faces low prices and rising diesel, fertilizer and machinery costs, and says AI reports, alerts and dashboards are the next technology step for his farm.
AgrotechCamera-based pre-sorters now remove stones, clods and defective tubers as the harvest goes into store, though growers must trade throughput against accuracy.
EnvironmentAhead of the Antalya summit, CGIAR's Ismahane Elouafi and Todd Rosenstock call for money to follow agrifood's share of emissions and warn that AI could widen gaps for smallholders.
Agtech startup Bug Bug has shrunk its AI acoustic pest detector to palm size and cut the full kit to about US$100, ahead of a year-long trial in Indonesian sugarcane.
OpinionIn a column in Ittefaq, Samiran Biswas argues that AI, IoT and drones will help farmers decide in time, but unless the technology reaches smallholders it will widen inequality.
At the AgriBusiness Global Trade Summit, executives from India and China said the next decade of crop-input sourcing will turn on trust, supply chain resilience and artificial intelligence, where the Indian side conceded China leads.
AgrotechAt an Agriculture Information Service seminar in Rangamati, officials said artificial intelligence, drones, the Internet of Things and digital advisory services together could ease the limits of hill farming, and proposed one-stop farm services.
AgrotechA legged robot with cameras, sensors and AI models is being tried among Tempranillo vines in Ribera del Duero and blackberries under tunnels in Huelva, on ground too rough for wheeled machines.
Two UK farm advisers say a lack of confidence, limited training and doubts about the benefits keep many farmers from using artificial intelligence, and suggest starting with one dull task.
AgrotechKinetic Process Technology India has installed an AI system that runs a rice mill to output specifications set by the operator, around the clock, after earlier use in China.
