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 ...

According to the United Nations' prediction ... use of specialized fertilizers, insecticides by crop, planting cycles and irrigation cycles all affect yield is a perfect problem for machine learning.

Avalo, a crop development company based in North Carolina, is using machine learning models to accelerate ... “Since consequences of mis-prediction in this case may have disproportionate effects ...

Heritable Architecture ... gauntlet that is Google X.” Using machine learning, Heritable analyzes plant genomes to determine combinations that could improve crop production.