Predictability in agriculture is about as hard to find as a needle in a haystack. When you’re trying to prevent pest and disease pressures from devastating your yield, your approach to crop management ...

The increasing global demand for staple crops, projected to rise by 60% by 2050, is a pressing issue intensified by population growth, income increases, and biofuel usage. To meet this demand ...

The era of groundbreaking AgTech has manifested in the Lockyer Valley, with a Gatton academic the latest to concoct a system that predicts crop yield and farm production risks up to four months prior ...

Scientists have trained an AI algorithm to count the number of flowers on fruit trees using only smartphone images. The system could predict the size of a harvest months in advance — saving farmers ...

Six months ago, no one saw this coming – abundant rainfall and then some for the 2025 growing season throughout much of the Corn Belt. “It has been six years since we’ve seen a rainfall growing season ...

The future of almond yields is bright, according to a major prediction. A recent estimate from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted a yield of three billion pounds (1.3bn kg) of the crop ...

Developed at the University of Queensland’s Gatton campus, CropVision is the brainchild of Associate Professor Andries Potgieter, linking crop models with data from Earth Observation monitoring of ...