To celebrate National Washington Day on May 10, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is highlighting the innovative NIFA-funded research conducted by Washington State University (WSU). With backing […]
Category: Research
WSU college studies A.I. in farming
Washington State University’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Science received a $20 million federal grant in 2021 from USDA to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools and approaches to […]
Hackathon aims to solve agriculture challenges
Almost 200 students from around the U.S. had the chance to work on two challenges for the agricultural industry as part of the NSF/USDA-NIFA-funded AgAID Institute’s Digital Agathon. The event was held […]
WSU tree fruit Extension specialist recognized with Latino Leadership Award
Washington State University’s Bernardita Sallato was not expecting to receive the Latino Leadership Award from the Washington State Tree Fruit Association (WSTFA), but the recognition motivates her to continue her […]
AgAID: Tackling Agriculture with AI
The AgAID Institute, a powerful coalition of technology firms and universities, including Oregon State University, is employing artificial intelligence to tackle some of the most important and difficult problems facing farmers […]
Looking to the Future: AgAID Institute
In September 2021, WSU began leadership of a new Agriculture-Artificial Intelligence (AI) research Institute: the AgAID Institute. As the growing population increases food demand, agriculture faces complex challenges related to labor, […]
AgTech offers the labor upgrade our industry needs
There are several areas ripe for assisting employees, and they are the most labor intensive and hardest to replace: blossom thinning, pruning and small fruit removals. Research at the University […]
Where are the orchard bots? OSU shares the latest research on tree fruit robotics
Robots are commonplace in row crops, but the fresh market tree fruit industry still relies on large, seasonal workforces. “Every apple you see at the grocery store was picked by […]
Smarter Orchards
Last spring, WSU launched the AgAID Institute with $20 million from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and National Science Foundation. It will accelerate AI-driven ag technology research, and help the development of pruning and […]
How AI Can Help Farmers Fight Drought in a Hotter World
The AgAID Institute hopes to apply AI to many areas of agriculture amid the anthropogenically changed climate. This will include a search for AI solutions to everything from the dangers […]
