The Backstory (sponsored by National Farmers Federation) is a backstage pass to discover the innovation backstory behind some of Australia's best agricultural products. Crafting the stories to communicate agtech innovation is critical for customers, supply chains, investors and tech producers. https://farmers.org.au/backstory/
From the cauliflower capital of the world, Riverhead, New York, USA, comes this usual cauliflower. It was arrayed with other more usual cauliflowers in the common white, but also purple and orange.
With populations growing and temperatures rising, shifting to a more sustainable future in agriculture is essential.The model potato farm feels a little like Star Trek: an international, multicultural crew armed with laptops, sensors and drones boldly going where no potato farmer has gone before.A team of postgrads from Dalhousie University, for example, is working on a crop-spraying rig that uses artificial intelligence to identify bugs and weeds that can harm the crop. Instead of spraying the whole field, pattern-recognition systems spot unwanted invaders and direct nozzles to target them. It takes just 200 milliseconds to identify a beetle and spray it.https://inkl.com/a/AmywxatAXN
