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Digital twin technology helps scientists simulate problems, provide solutions to help growers


January 2, 2024

Farmers should benefit greatly from digital twin technology, which leverages significant advances in big data, computing power and artificial intelligence to generate virtual representations of the physical world. A digital twin is a virtual ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: #aiatuf, Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Charlie Li, Damian Adams, Dana Choi, Digital Twin, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Precision-ag, UF/IFAS Research

Forum tackles how AI can help deal with global food security


March 13, 2023

With the world’s population predicted to hover around 9.8 billion by 2050, artificial intelligence could help feed people across the globe now and in the future. That makes artificial intelligence (AI) an ideal topic for the third annual Future ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Adegbola Adesogan, Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Charlie Li, Crops, Diseases, Future Of Food Forum, Harvest, HiPerGator, J. Scott Angle, Karen Garrett, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Plant Pathology, Raquel Dias, Supply Chain

National Farm Safety and Health Week: A time to recognize the potential dangers of agricultural work and to stay safe


September 15, 2022

Dangers lurk for those working in agriculture – an economic sector that includes farms, forestry, fisheries and hunting. When you combine agriculture, forestry and fishing, 18,750 people suffered nonfatal injuries in 2020 in the United ... READ MORE

Category: Farm Management
Tags: Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Farms, Injuries, Machinery, National Farm Safety And Health Week, OSHA, Serap Gorucu

Read the fine print: Who owns and controls farm data?


November 23, 2021

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, data derived from farms might be more valuable than the crops growers produce. That's because farmers can make money from their data when companies use it for other purposes, says a University ... READ MORE

Category: Farm Management
Tags: Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural Technology Firms, Albert De Vries, Animal Sciences, Contracts, Data, Farm Data, Irrigation, License, Operational Data, Ownership, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Yiannis Ampatzidis, Ziwen Yu

UF researchers lead effort to streamline, reuse data to help feed the world


October 7, 2021

Data sets are often easy to find but complicated to use because scientists store and use information differently, and they vary their vocabulary. That’s why University of Florida researchers are leading a national project to help scientists ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE
Tags: Ag Data Commons, Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Agricultural Data, Agricultural Research Data Network, Breeding, Cheryl Porter, Crop Modeling, Crops, Food, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Grant, National Agricultural Library, National Institute Of Food And Agriculture, Research

Drone Images Detect Two Tomato Diseases with 99% Accuracy


January 13, 2020

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- New technology being developed by University of Florida scientists identifies two dangerous tomato diseases with 99 percent accuracy. This finding is critical because diseases can cost growers millions of dollars annually ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Detection, Diseases, Drone Technology, Images, Pamela Roberts, Plant Pathology, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Tomatoes, Yiannis Ampatzidis

UF Convenes International Experts to Advance Sustainable Food


January 8, 2020

As the world’s population grows, producing enough food — and doing it sustainably — will be one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. So how can Florida, one of the most diverse agricultural states in the nation, help solve ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Coasts & Marine, NATURAL RESOURCES, SFYL Hot Topic, Water
Tags: Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Board Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, Future Of Food Forum, Institute For Sustainable Food Systems, Jim Anderson, Kati Migliaccio, News

UF/IFAS Researchers: Robots May Run Future Farms


February 13, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Agriculture, one of the world’s oldest vocations, is also one that continues to reinvent itself with new technology. From the introduction of the steel plow to automated tractors to modern fertilizer applications, technology ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Farm Management
Tags: #AI, Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Farming, Frank Asche, Future, Institute For Sustainable Food Systems, Robots, School Of Forest Resources And Conservation, Senthold Asseng, Technology

UAV-based Remote Sensing Can Help Avocado Growers by Detecting Asymptomatic Pathogen


January 22, 2019

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Remote imaging can effectively detect a pathogen that endangers the $100 million-a-year Florida avocado industry – even before the trees show symptoms -- University of Florida scientists say. Yiannis Ampatzidis, an ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultultural And Biological Engineering, Avocado, Laurel Wilt, Multispectral Cameras, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Yiannis Ampatzidis