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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND AGRICULTURE
Transfarmative Companies Innovating
Agriculture with AI
Who should be on your radar?
RYAN RIDLEY
MANAGING EDITOR
The ag tech sector never ceases to amaze
with its new techniques, technologies, and
processes. It seems almost daily that new
innovations and ideas are presented to the
market.
It’s a daunting task to keep tabs on everything, but the
Farms.com team is committed to providing a variety
of relevant information to readers of the Precision
Agriculture Digital Digest.
One area of precision ag where innovation continues
to accelerate is artificial intelligence (AI). According to
a research study by Markets and Markets, the global
AI market for agriculture is expected to reach USD 4
billion by 2026 with a compound annual growth rate of
25.5%.
There are several areas where AI is used in
agriculture—intelligent spraying, yield predicting,
crop and soil monitoring, price forecasting, disease
diagnosing, aerial imaging, livestock health monitoring,
automatic weeding—just to name a few.
Melanie Johnson explores AI’s uses in agriculture on page 15 ,but who are the players?
In this article we explore six companies in agriculture
that continue to innovate within the ag tech space by
using AI.
FarmWise
Weeds—the enemy of every producer. The FarmWise
system uses AI and robotics to mechanically remove
individual weeds with sub-inch precision.
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