In this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Farmers Edge, we welcome Ohio State University Agriculture and Bioengineering professor Scott Shearer to discuss the current state of artificial intelligence as it pertains to the ag industry and its potential future.

John Deere Labs focuses it attention to AI in food production.

A group of maize farmers stands huddled around an agronomist and his computer on the side of an irrigation pivot in central South Africa. The agronomist has just flown over the pivot with a hybrid UAV that takes off and lands using propellers yet maintains distance and speed for scanning vast hectares of land through the use of its fixed wings.