Scientists from Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) are using artificial intelligence to analyse drone images shot above the soil to better understand how root crops respond to drought or heat beneath the soil. The work utilises CIAT’s Pheno-i platform, which relays real-time data to scientists, to help develop more climate-resilient crops. Pheno-i is a web-based application originally developed by CIAT to rapidly analyse drone and satellite images, providing decision support to plant breeders and farmers. The platform maps physical features to evaluate water flow, germination and productivity zones of individual farms. Growers can assess traits…
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John Deere has updated its entire header lineup for combines to include new HDR rigid cutterbar drapers, RDF HydraFlex drapers, CR and CF corn heads and a BP15 belt pickup. Each is compatible with John Deere X Series and most S Series and T Series combines, to help achieve maximum harvesting capacity while minimizing grain loss under a wide range of crops and conditions. Each of the new drapers, corn heads and the belt pickup come with a header control unit (HCU) that communicates seamlessly with the combine. The HCU saves head-specific factory calibration settings and collects and sends header-width information to…
Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has partnered with Goanna Ag, a Queensland-based manufacturer of agricultural sensing systems for water-use efficiency, to ensure irrigation water used to grow crops is not wasted. In an Australian first, WaterWise is the only water-use efficiency product for irrigated crops that measures crop water stress and predicts future water needs in real time. The solution is set to help growers save water or boost crop yield. Goanna Ag will be delivering WaterWise’s smart analytics as a data stream to its on-farm customers, which will now have access to a brand new, Australian-made, science-based technology that…
