Why the industry that feeds 8 billion people still can’t read its own data

Agriculture is drowning in data it can barely use. A new class of AI wants to fix that.

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BY Kolawole Samuel Adebayo

Agricultural data is “fragmented, distributed, heterogeneous, and incompatible.” That’s the verdict from a major Council for Agricultural Science and Technology report published barely a year ago, and it helps explain why AI has struggled to gain traction on farms. Other data-heavy industries, like healthcare or financial services, have established data standards, but agriculture has no universal framework for translating between the dozens of systems that generate field-level........

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