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AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced


Investors are sinking billions into high-tech agriculture systems, but farmers are still waiting for simple, adaptable and reliable tools.

Perhaps remote sensing technology will monitor ever more of a farm system, autonomous vehicles will patrol it, and AI will predict crop growth or cattle weight gain. Windmills, wire fences, and even the iconic Australian sheepdog have been a crucial part of the technological narrative of settler colonial farming. “More automation, less features” is in this sense a farmer envisaging a digital product that fits with their image of a useful technology: transparent in its operations, and a reliable replacement for or an addition to human labour.

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