A Growing Investment Technology has always co-existed with agriculture, but, over the last few years, there has been a concerted cross-pollination. In 2020, the National Science Foundation launched its National […]
Category: Research
WSU’s AgAID Institute attends White House event on AI
The “AI Aspirations: R&D for Public Missions” event held in Washington, D.C. in early June brought together leading experts from across the federal government as well as from universities and industry. The […]
Promise and Pitfalls: Cultivating understanding of agricultural artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is filtering your spam, gatekeeping your newsfeed, chatting with you online, and underpinning many of your regular activities. Many vaunt the potential of AI in agriculture to […]
Temperature Inversion Forecasts Available for AgWeatherNet Mesonet Tower Stations
AgWeatherNet (AWN) has rolled out 24-hour temperature inversion forecasts for 21 Mesonet tower stations. These stations (Figure 1) measure air temperature (Tair) at two distinct heights, i.e., 6.6 ft (2 […]
Is it important to monitor bud tissue temperature for spring frost management in sweet cherry?
Temperature is used to predict lethal temperatures for sweet cherry buds, but it can differ from the actual bud tissue temperature. We compared different types of sensors to quantify bud […]
Data Driven Decision Making: Empowering Farmers in a Changing Climate
Can data be a game changer for farmers in the face of climate change? Farmers are at the forefront of risk and uncertainty in the face of a rapidly changing […]
Highlighting growing portfolio of innovative agricultural AI work
WSU leads the Institute for Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support, commonly known as AgAID, launched in 2021 with support from NSF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National […]
WSU tech field day introduces a wide variety of research projects
It takes a diverse team of researchers to tackle orchard technology development. So, a diverse team of students, university faculty and technology suppliers spoke at a technology field day organized […]
Using Autonomous Pathing Orchard Robots
I spent this summer working as an intern at the Center for Precision and Automation Agricultural Systems at Washington State University, a renowned research facility dedicated to advancing the field of sustainable […]
Cantwell Calls for AI Bill to Prepare Workers for Jobs of the Future
For farmers and the agriculture industries, Washington State University’s AgAID Institute showcased how AI can track and analyze factors influencing crop yields. Carbon Robotics also attended and showed how their […]
