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The Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture

A group of maize farmers stands huddled around an agronomist and his computer on the side of an irrigation pivot in central South Africa. The agronomist has just flown over the pivot with a hybrid UAV that takes off and lands using propellers yet maintains distance and speed for scanning vast hectares of land through the use of its fixed wings.
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Keith Byerly

Digital Records of Visual Observations

As we are watching this corn crop come out of the ground this year, it’s time to begin evaluating what has happened thus far. Different areas have had wet spells and planted corn in wet soils, while almost everybody has planted in cold soils. We have had humidity that made residue management difficult, and the wind that has buried clean strips with trash. Through it all, you all did the best job you could to manage the conditions that you had and planting to the best of your abilities. So now is the time to grade your work.
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[Technology Corner] Termination of Deere Deal Doesn’t Devalue Data

One of the more interesting elements of John Deere’s planned acquisition of Precision Planting from parent company Monsanto, involved the data collection capabilities provided by the hardware. The cancellation of the deal included a digital collaboration agreement between Deere and the Climate Corp., which would have allowed for sharing of agronomic data between Deere’s Operations Center and Climate’s FieldView platform.
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Sentera Launches Enhanced High-Precision Single Sensor

Sentera announced new additions to its small, lightweight high precision single sensor product family. The new High-Precision NDVI Single and High-Precision NDRE Single utilize patent-pending technology to improve spectral band separation and generate more accurate vegetation index measurements.
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Swift Navigation & Carnegie Robotics Announce New RTK Receiver

Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power a world of autonomous vehicles, in conjunction with Carnegie Robotics LLC (CRL), a robotic components and systems producer, announced their first joint product, Duro, a ruggedized version of Swift Navigation's flagship Piksi Multi dual-frequency RTK GNSS receiver.
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