A new machine-learning model for predicting crop yield using environmental data and genetic information can be used to develop new, higher-performing crop varieties. Igor Fernandes, a statistics ...

Instead, Descartes relies on 4 petabytes of satellite imaging data and a machine learning algorithm to figure out how healthy the corn crop is from space. Corn yield prediction is big business in ...

Machine learning is now sorting through 2.6 million different compounds matching efficacy to unique proteins in different organisms, be them pests or weeds. It’s an approach Bayer is calling ...

Rather than tending fields by the hundreds of acres, farmers could one day tend each and every plant with the help of machine learning, robots and other technologies. A five-year, $7 million grant ...

The Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has published seven separate request for tenders (RFT) this week, seeking help with machine learning projects that aim to aid the ...