Joseph Byrum, Author at AgFunderNews

Joseph Byrum

Complexity, AI & the future of food: AI’s food security impact

April 22, 2021

AI must be applied not just to growing more of this crop or that crop, but to optimizing agriculture’s entire value chain, writes Joseph Byrum.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Biometrics & the future of food safety

April 15, 2021

Biometric tech has become part of our everyday lives, whether we’re opening a bank account, crossing a border, or unlocking a phone – and it’s coming to our food, too.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Toward the age of agrobots

April 8, 2021

Agrobots built around collective computational intelligence could help us better understand the interactions between plant physiology, soil structure, and other environmental factors.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Boosting agriculture’s climate resilience

March 30, 2021

AI that learns through ’embodied intelligence’ could boost agricultural resilience with its greater capacity to adapt to rapidly evolving climatic events.

Complexity, AI & the future of food: Thinking beyond human capabilities

March 24, 2021

Many see AI’s ultimate goal as replication of the inner workings of the human brain. But is there another way to look at what AI can do for us?

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Complexity, AI & the future of food: AI’s potential for addressing global food security

March 16, 2021

AI can help solve one of the greatest practical challenges facing agriculture: the problem of food security, writes Joseph Byrum.

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Covid-19 is a wake-up call to strengthen our food supply chain amid shifting geopolitics

February 10, 2021

Cyberattacks, disinformation, and buyouts are weapons in the warchest for sovereign states that want to close the competitive gap with a rival country’s ag sector.

Grow crops like a fighter pilot

April 14, 2020

The next harvest is becoming a matter of economic survival for some growers in uncertain times. With trade wars, pandemics and market plunges, farmers now more than ever need every edge they can get to make the most of the growing season. One thing they can do to up their game is to take inspiration from fighter pilots, writes Joe Byrum.

How Beer Revolutionized Math — and Just Might Save Humanity

August 1, 2018

The pioneering work of Irish brewers a century ago made today’s big data and artificial intelligence gold rush possible, write Joe Byrum.

Forget Self-Driving Tractors; Agriculture’s AI Should be Modeled on Iron Man

June 11, 2018

The Iron Man model of artificial intelligence — combining man and machine — could truly take agriculture into the next era of productivity, writes Joe Byrum.

Putting a Price on Farm Data

September 13, 2017

How do we value the data that come from the farm? The question has no simple answer, writes Joseph Byrum.

Data as Agriculture’s New Currency: Advancing to the Next Level

May 29, 2017

This last in a three-part series by Joe Byrum explores the use of data by non-farming organizations and the need to improve data collection for the benefit of the whole agriculture industry.

Data as Agriculture’s New Currency: The Farmer’s Perspective

May 15, 2017

This is the second article in a three-part series from Joe Byrum about agricultural data as a commodity and currency, this time focusing on farmers.

Data As Agriculture’s New Currency

May 3, 2017

The first in a three-part series by Joseph Byrum explores the development of data as an agricultural commodity.

How Remote Sensing Powers Precision Agriculture

March 14, 2017

Modern sensing instruments have advanced far beyond simple photographic film. Today’s devices measure light, radiation, and heat by capturing different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, writes Joe Byrum.

The challenges for artificial intelligence in agriculture

February 20, 2017

While artificial intelligence in agriculture presents many opportunities, there are some inherent challenges when compared to its application in other industries, writes Syngenta’s Joseph Byrum.

3 Pieces of Advice for Agribusinesses Wanting to Keep Up with Innovation

December 5, 2016

In his third of a three-part series on open innovation, Byrum gives three pieces of advice for agribusinesses considering using open innovation to keep up with their peers and not get left behind.

How Agribusinesses Can Ensure Success with Open Innovation

November 14, 2016

With most agribusinesses continuing to invest in R&D internally, open innovation can be an effective way to access external know-how. Here are some top tips to making it work from Syngenta’s Joseph Byrum.