AgribusinessAs growers get more product information and advice from digital tools, US farm input retailers are asking which of their services growers will keep paying for, Amy Asmus of Asmus Farm Supply told CropLife Retail Week.
AgrotechVenture capitalist Hemendra Mathur argues that voice-based AI advisers on toll-free lines have reached millions of Indian farmers, and that small, crop-tuned language models wired into public digital infrastructure will serve them better than large ones.
AgrotechIn a signed column, AgFunderNews editor Jennifer Marston argues that the digitisation of farms, food plants and cold chains has opened the food system to hackers, and that the sector has been slow to talk about it.
AgrotechUnder India's Digital Agriculture Mission, each farmer's identity, land and crop records are being linked to a 12-digit Unique Farmer ID so that subsidies, insurance and crop payments go straight to genuine farmers' bank accounts.
AgrotechA study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems finds that in Ghana's Ashanti and Bono regions younger men use smartphones and online farm advice, while older women rely on basic phones, radio and voice services because of literacy, language, cost and social norms.
AgrotechThe new tool for farm-input retailers combines past performance data, in-season crop information and satellite imagery, with anomaly detection, NDVI-based weekly reports and an AI summary.
AgrotechFarmers Business Network will get early access to Google frontier models to build a system that tailors AI advice to each farm's soil, crops, weather, equipment and finances.
AgrotechWith 76.3 million Farmer IDs and a voice chatbot answering over 9.3 million questions, the next step is advice farmers can understand, question and hand to a human expert.
Ram Kiran Dhulipala, who directs CGIAR's Digital Transformation Accelerator, writes after visiting ICRISAT and IRRI that the research centres already have plenty of digital tools and now need shared infrastructure and standards to connect them.
AgrotechComparing two 2026 producer surveys, researchers found 52% of US farmers say AI and data tools bring no meaningful benefit, against 21% in Argentina.
At the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR researchers argued that AI advisory, insurance and speech tools only help women farmers when women shape the design, data and governance behind them.
NASS administrator Joe Parsons says farmers will soon be able to type or speak a question to get official data, as most reports move to the interactive Ag Insights platform.
AgrotechAt an AWS Cloud and AI Day, NZ Young Farmers' Cheyne Gillooly said AI will speed dairy, sheep and plant genetics research to market, while farmers described the shift to per-animal and in-paddock data.
