NMSU’s AI, Agriculture Initiative Honored With Innovators Award

Oct 06, 2025

New Mexico State University’s artificial intelligence and agriculture initiative has been honored with the 2025 Rangelands Innovators Award in the collaborative team category.

The partnership includes the Massey family of the Massey Ranch Precision Ranching and Virtual Fencing Project of Animas, New Mexico, U.S Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service Jornada Experimental Range, Bat Conservation International, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, the Sierra Water and Soil Conservation District, the Bureau of Land Management’s Abandoned Mine Lands Program and BLM’s Las Cruces District Office.

“This award acknowledges the research that NMSU, in collaboration with the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, is doing in developing intelligent technologies and integrating them into tools that are useful and accessible to ranchers,” said Santiago Utsumi, animal and range sciences associate professor.

Source : nmsu.edu

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