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AI brings precision to modern weed control

Automated systems are turning from the “way of the future” to our present lives. Artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT has shown there are impressive ways these programs can adapt and learn in the middle of a conversation or with new data input.

There are still plenty of kinks to iron out, however.

Xin Sun, associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at North Dakota State University, was a part of a 2023 study looking at “deep learning,” or ways in which artificial intelligence is improving its ability to detect weeds.

He said this is still an evolving process, but significant progress is being made with site-specific weed management.

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Dry Farming, Deer Fencing, and Cover Crops in the Paths with Eric Nordell

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We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.