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UF’s AI Supercomputer Works on Improving Cattle Yields

The average American consumes over 58 pounds of beef and 141 pounds of milk per year, but cattle farming is a deeply resource-intensive process with significant impacts on land use and carbon emissions – so any gains i Read more…

AI Algorithm Improves Crop Yield Prediction

As climate change puts greater and greater stressors on crops, precision agriculture – which pursues lower inputs and higher yields – is a booming market, poised to reach nearly $13 billion by the late 2020s. Read more…

Drone Data Accelerates Mapping

Add to the mounting list of data types: aerial data captured by drones, much of it used for map making and field surveys. A recent report on trends in the booming drone industry finds that commercial drones equipped w Read more…

Farm Net Seeks to Plant Seeds of Big Data

Farmers used to swap stories and discuss the weather at the feed store or the grain elevator. Now they are just as likely to be gathered around a computer screen analyzing data on crop yields across the country. That' Read more…

Dairy Industry Asks: Got Big Data?

The bucolic days of the family dairy farm are long gone. Even in places like "America's Dairyland" (aka, Wisconsin), huge dairy operations that milk thousands of Holstein cows twice a day are an increasingly common site. Read more…

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