John Deere: From Equipment Manufacturer to AgTech Firm
John Deere invests heavily as machine learning technology offers the next revolution in agricultural production.
AgTech
Round Down: John Deere Brings Machine Vision to Precision Agriculture
In 2017, the world's largest tractor company spent $305M to acquire a startup that distinguishes lettuce from pigweed. As a result, US farmers are freeing themselves from Monsanto's Roundup. Is John Deere's machine learning approach the future of ag tech?
Do More with Less: Can Machine Learning Help Feed the Growing Population?
How do we feed a growing population in the face of a changing climate and diminishing natural resources, all while protecting our planet? Monsanto thinks it has the answer: machine learning.
Farmers Business Network: Democratizing agriculture using machine learning
Farmers Business Network (FBN), a HBS grad-founded startup, is disrupting the agriculture sector by crowd-sourcing farmer data. FBN has managed to apply machine learning techniques to aggregated farmer data to generate actionable insights around input use and crop marketing for farmers.
Machine Learning and the Future of Agriculture
The world faces a fundamental food problem: quantity versus quality. For the last several decades these two notions have been at odds, with the gap widening. What can put a stop to this?
A Deere World: Incentivizing Sustainability in Agriculture
With the agriculture community facing numerous conflicting threats, John Deere is positioned to offer integrated solutions that financially incentivizes environmentally-friendly agricultural practices.
Is ADM Ready to Feed a Warmer World?
If ADM wants to retain its position as a leader in agribusiness it will need to face climate change head-on. Climate change will exert unprecedented stress on its highly complex supply chain and the time to act is now.
Ready…Aim…SPRAY!!!: How Blue River Technology is turning Free Spraying Techniques into Agricultural Surgery
In the search for an answer to the question of how we will feed a growing population, Blue River Technology has created a robot that kills plants and weeds so that others may flourish while protecting the planet in the process.
Big Data, Small Farms, and Microclimates: Exploring The Internet of Trees with Arable
The business of weather prediction was pioneered sometime between Babylon's cloud-readers and the Oracles of Delphi. Today, Arable is helping farmers access crop science and forecast what matters without that expensive trip to the Temple of Apollo (though it is still stored in a cloud).
Is climate change a silver bullet or pot of gold for Monsanto?
The risks and opportunities for the agriculture industry.