Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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The organisers of HAICTA 2026 report a hybrid conference in Kos that connected digital agriculture, resilient food systems and biodiversity research, with scientific contributions from across six continents.
South Africa’s agricultural engineering symposium runs on 21–23 October 2026 in Upington, with technical sessions and planned tours spanning precision agriculture, water management and renewable energy.
ESA and the WorldCereal consortium presented global crop products in an April 2023 webinar, showing how Sentinel and Landsat observations support seasonal crop-type mapping and an interactive viewer.
Bayer announced a March 2024 pilot trained on internal agronomic knowledge and trial information, working with Microsoft and EY to explore faster support for agricultural advisers and company teams.
Syngenta announced Cropwise AI in September 2024, combining agronomic models and a multilingual language interface, initially serving selected customers in the United States and Brazil.
Microsoft Research presented FarmVibes.AI in October 2022, providing models and workflows that combine field sensors, weather and aerial imagery to support agricultural analysis and new research applications.
A University of Glasgow-led study reported printed biodegradable sensing patches in April 2025, combining replaceable measurement elements with reusable electronics to reduce waste from agricultural monitoring.
NASA, IBM and Forschungszentrum Jülich released an expanded open-source geospatial foundation model in December 2024, supporting applications such as crop classification, cloud-gap reconstruction and land monitoring.
A Northwestern-led team reported a microbial fuel-cell design in January 2024 that powered soil-moisture and touch sensors, exploring an alternative to replacing batteries in distributed monitoring systems.
Team AuTomatoes won the second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge in 2020, with the competition assessing cultivation results, resource use and the robustness of AI strategies for remotely managed cherry tomatoes.
USDA’s 2023 irrigation survey, released in October 2024, reported lower total irrigated acreage and water use than in 2018, alongside significant spending on equipment, computer technology and pumping energy.
University of Almería researchers released GREENBOT data combining lidar, stereo imagery and inertial measurements from a tomato greenhouse, creating a research resource for localisation and mapping under changing crop conditions.
