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AI and Agriculture: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Farming and Finance

Trimble Agriculture

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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Natural Senescence

ATTRA

As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. But a mechanical tiller? Last May, on the 10th according to my notebook, I stared at five feet of my cover crop’s spring growth. My hoe was light in this respect. Agricultural fallout.

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

By way of comparison, Climeworks, which uses mechanical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in rock, reportedly charges between $500 and $1,000 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent removed. The credits sell for roughly $250 per ton, said Running Tide. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

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