Ananth Kalyanaraman, director the AgAID Institute and a computer science professor at the Washington State University, was part of a panel tackling AI and agriculture. Washington farmers grow more than 300 different […]
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New training for agriculture professionals to understand and communicate AI
A CSANR team is developing an asynchronous online training course focused on understanding and communicating artificial intelligence (AI) within sustainable agriculture. Funded through a grant from Western Sustainable Agriculture Research […]
Project aims to better understand water demands from extreme heat
A project to better understand, and help balance, future water demands during high temperatures recently received a $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The project funds a Washington State University-led […]
Experts to Develop Strategy on Using AI to Feed Agricultural Advancements
Experts Meet in Washington, DC to Develop Research, Policy & Funding Recommendations for AI in Agriculture The AI for Agriculture Summit and Visioning Conference — held July 29–31, 2024 at […]
Robots reaching beyond harvest — Video
Washington and Oregon University researchers collaborate on orchard robots for many tasks Every year, apple fruit thinning overlaps with cherry harvest, posing tough labor management decisions. Northwest engineering researchers are […]
AI Taking Root in Growing Number of Agriculture Programs
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 […]
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 […]
