Women have always been vital to the success of family farms and comprise nearly half the U.S. farmer population—but their work often goes unnoticed. Funded in part by Precision Sustainable Agriculture, researchers published a three-part series in August 2024 on women’s experiences in agriculture, on the American Farmland Trust website ..read more

In July 2024, Tech Briefs magazine interviewed PSA Co-director Chris Reberg-Horton on why and how we’re building the Agricultural Image Repository, how a supercomputer is training AI to recognize plant species and phenotypes, the benefits to farmers of PSA’s low-cost technology, and more ..read more

In this 16-minute July 2024 episode of the AgTech360 podcast, Adrian Percy, executive director of the NC State Plant Sciences Initiative, interviews PSA Co-director Chris Reberg-Horton about his current research and the practical applications of robotics and sensor technology in agriculture ..read more

The June 13, 2024, issue of the NC State Plant Sciences Initiative newsletter features an in-depth article on how PSA is using technology and AI to help farmers increase yield, reduce waste, and become more sustainable ..read more

This ABC11 Raleigh-Durham news story from July 2024 describes how PSA’s BenchBot 3.0 is training AI to recognize plant species and phenotypes. It also explores how our camera technology, PlantMap3D, informs farm management decisions and how our open-source data and software serve the agriculture community ..read more

Farmers have no shortage of tools to increase their crop output, but the Agriculture Department is taking the next step with industry to help establish the data-driven farms of the future.  ..read more

Farmers around the world are facing the urgent question of how to sustainably feed a global population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 — and the answer, in part, might be found ..read more