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Agriculture & Food · 3 min read

2026 Is the Proof Year for Precision Agriculture AI — Farmers Are Demanding Real ROI

The global AI-in-agriculture market hit $3.37 billion in 2026, up 24.5% — and farm operators are done accepting pilot results. They want documented ROI, and vendors are now under pressure to deliver it.

May 16

Agriculture & Food · 4 min read

$3.15 Billion Flows Into AI-Powered Crop Micronutrients as Precision Agriculture Scales

More than $3 billion has flowed into AI-powered precision agriculture for crop micronutrients. John Deere covers 5 million acres. Syngenta manages 70 million hectares. Smallholder farmers are being left behind.

May 13

Agriculture & Food · 4 min read

Precision Farming's AI Gains Are Real. The Environmental Claims Aren't.

AI precision agriculture delivers genuine per-acre efficiency, but an investigative report finds those gains are being captured as yield increases and intensification — not environmental recovery — as the Farm Bill directs billions toward AI subsidies without outcome requirements.

May 12

Agriculture & Food · 4 min read

Precision Agriculture Is Booming — But Critics Question Whether AI Actually Helps the Climate

The 2026 Farm Bill proposes 90% federal reimbursement for AI farm tools, but environmental researchers say the climate benefits of precision agriculture are largely unmeasured and unverified.

May 7

Agriculture & Food · 5 min read

Only 14% of Farmers Use AI. And It's Mostly the Big Ones Watching Their Books.

The 2026 State of the Farm Report finds just 14% of farmers use AI tools, concentrated in large operations deploying AI for financial analysis — not field management. The precision agriculture promise and the practice are still far apart.

May 5

Agriculture & Food · 4 min read

The 2026 Farm Bill Has a Hidden AI Subsidy — and It Could Hand Big Tech a Foothold on American Farmland

A provision in the 2026 Farm Bill reimburses farmers up to 90% of the cost of AI tools through EQIP — but critics warn it subsidizes Big Tech data collection from American farmland without requiring farmers to own their own data.

May 2

Agriculture & Food · 3 min read

AI-Driven Autonomous Drones Eliminate Pre-Mapping in Precision Agriculture

GEODASH Aerosystems' AI drone platform removes the pre-mapping step that has blocked smallholder adoption of drone-based precision agriculture — arriving as only 14% of North American farmers use AI at all.

Apr 20

Agriculture & Food · 3 min read

Polybee Scales Physical AI Drone Agents for Specialty Crop Monitoring and Harvest Forecasting

Polybee is scaling a fleet of self-recharging AI drones to continuously monitor specialty crops and generate harvest timing forecasts — one of the rare AgTech deployments that has achieved immediately measurable financial returns.

Apr 19

Agriculture & Food · 3 min read

USDA Launches National Network to Stress-Test AI Farm Tech Before It Reaches Fields

The USDA's new National Proving Grounds Network for AgTech will independently evaluate AI-powered farm tools — precision drones, autonomous equipment, yield models — under real farming conditions before commercial release.

Apr 18