Researches & Trends

India’s Pest Surveillance AI Has Reached National Scale, But Its Impact Is Unproven

Ridhika Basnet | AUGUST 26, 2026https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-features/indias-pest-surveillance-ai-has-reached-national-scale-but-its-impact-is-unproven Born out of a need to provide farmers with precise crop treatment, India’s National Pest Surveillance System (NPSS) has grown over the last two years into a large-scale digital platform for detecting crop pests and helping farmers. Launched in August 2024, it has expanded to 31 states and union territories,

UI awarded $6M grant for AI agriculture research

Moscow-Pullman Daily Newshttps://www.dnews.com/local-news/ui-awarded-6m-grant-for-ai-agriculture-research-6163497a MOSCOW — The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Idaho $6 million to use artificial intelligence to breed higher-yielding cereal crops. “The research aims to reduce harvest losses that disrupt the global food supply and cost farmers billions of dollars each year,” the UI said in a statement. The UI is

Agriculture’s Drone Revolution Is Soaring as Drones-as-a-Service Targets a Multi-Billion-Dollar Market

Market News | Aug 27, 2026https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/agricultures-drone-revolution-is-soaring-as-drones-as-a-service-targets-a-multi-billion-dollar-market-302861885.html NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Agriculture is changing, and drones are becoming a much bigger part of that story. The interesting part isn’t simply that farmers can buy a drone and fly it over a field. It’s that they may not have to own one at all. With Drones-as-a-Service

Ruggedize conference unites farm robotics and AI innovators to Salinas.

Royvi Hernandez Aug 26, 2026https://www.montereycountynow.com/svnow/news/ruggedize-conference-unites-farm-robotics-and-ai-innovators-to-salinas/article_52279a1d-96da-4ebb-9303-34266d6a9e6e.html Reservoir Farms is hosting Ruggedize, a two-day deep tech conference, focused on robotics, artificial intelligence and the engineering challenges of deploying technology in real-world farms. Reservoir Farms is a 40-acre working agricultural campus in Salinas, designed to give technology companies access to real fields for testing and development. The inaugural

How Artificial Intelligence can improve crop performance

August 27, 2026 By Meghan Grebnerhttps://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/how-artificial-intelligence-can-improve-crop-performance/ The director of research agronomy and Practical Farm Research for Beck’s says the future of farming will be more prescriptive.  Jim Schwartz says corn hybrids build yield in different ways. “How we manage those hybrids has a great impact on the success we experience on our farm,” he says. He

Bowles Farming Company Part 2: Labor, Technology and the Fight to Keep Farming

 August 27, 2026https://agnetwest.com/bowles-farming-company-part-2-labor-water-technology/ The future of California agriculture may depend on solving some problems that farmers simply cannot solve on their own. In Part 2 of his conversation on the AgNet News Hour, Cannon Michael, president and CEO of Bowles Farming Company, discusses the need for a reliable agricultural workforce, the growing role of automation and his concerns

PANIM AI System Limited Prepares Field Trials of Its Distributed AI Protocol, Targeting the Growing Agricultural Technology Sector

LONDON, Aug. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/panim-ai-system-limited-prepares-field-trials-of-its-distributed-ai-protocol-targeting-the-growing-agricultural-technology-sector-1036499201 Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape agriculture, from computer vision systems capable of monitoring crops and livestock to autonomous machinery, precision farming platforms and robotic systems designed to perform increasingly complex tasks in the field. Yet as AI moves beyond research environments and into farms, greenhouses, processing facilities and

Experience Future-Ready Agriculture in Action

B.Sc. Moritz Schröder | August 28, 2026https://www.igp.fraunhofer.de/en/news/2026/smart-farming-field-day.html The first Smart Farming Field Day will take place at the Thünen Innovation Farm in Tellow on 2. September 2026. The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Large Structures in Production Engineering IGP, together with partners from research, industry, and startups,

ZenaTech Named 2026 “Drone Technology of the Year” Winner by AgTech Breakthrough Awards for Its ZenaDrone Precision Agriculture Solutions

Vancouver, British Columbia, August 27, 2026https://www.zenatech.com/zenatech-named-2026-drone-technology-of-the-year-winner-by-agtech-breakthrough-awards-for-its-zenadrone-precision-agriculture-solutions ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) (“ZenaTech” or the “Company”), a technology company specializing in AI-powered drones, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions, announces it has been named the winner of the “Drone Technology of the Year” award in the 2026 AgTech Breakthrough Awards program. “Precision

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