WATCH ABOVE: The Olds College Smart Farm has become a giant testing ground for innovation, including artificial intelligence, in the agriculture industry. – Jan 27, 2021At Nature Fresh Farms in Leamington, Ont., there’s something new amid the rows of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and strawberries.
The next phase of that technology involves AI models using that data to make inferences, predictions and even decisions, said Keena — and AI enables agriculture to become “hyper-optimized” down to a more specific level than before.No new hotspots found in broken Calgary water main, emergency officials saySending Canadian ship to Cuba near Russian fleet was ‘carefully’ planned: minister
AI can help address issues like labour shortages and climate challenges, said Darrell Petras, CEO of the Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network. AI models are only as good as their datasets, explained Karp, who is a research associate at the college and a PhD candidate in bioresource engineering at McGill University. His focus right now is on measuring and predicting variability of soil nutrients.
“And so we can’t ask them to take big risks on integrating new technologies at scale as part of their operations in things that are unproven.”