AI and Agriculture

At a House Science Environment Subcommittee hearing on ag innovation, Corteva Vice President Brian Lutz emphasized that artificial intelligence has a growing role in crop protection product development. “AI has revolutionized discovery by allowing us to trade randomness and chance for prediction specificity,” said Lutz, “We can now model proteins and molecules with unprecedented speed and accuracy.” An expert from the University of Florida testified the U.S. is losing ground to countries like China and Japan in agricultural innovation.