Is artificial intelligence better suited to solving agriculture's big challenges than in other sectors? A study by @ufresearch.bsky.social reckons so. farmingfuturefood.com/ai-set-to-di... #AI #MachineLearning #Agritech #farming

Breeding sweatier cattle could help beef farmers mitigate losses associated with heat stress, which cost the ag industry $370mUSD every year: farmingfuturefood.com/sweaty-cows-... #climatechange #ag #beef

Spending the next two weeks here at Dartington Hall for the Worshipful Company of Farmers’ Challenge of Rural Leaderahip course. Bracing myself for lots of late nights and chilly weather.

A bit of shameless self-promotion: Farming Future Food, the #agtech news site I co-publish with @garybugsyou.bsky.social, has joined the Blue Sky party. Give it a follow if you want to learn about developments in agri-tech and ag research, without the confusing jargon and science-speak.

If anyone wonders why I’m slow at replying to emails at the moment… This is Herbert (Herbie to his friends). Eleven weeks old, 80% fluff, 15% Fraggle, 5% baby shark. Needs to learn to sleep until the sun comes up, but otherwise very cute.

In Arizona this week revisiting some of our old haunts from when we used to live here. I don’t miss the bonkers politics, but the skylines can be pretty special.

I’ve created a starter pack of people to follow across UK agriculture - if I’ve missed anyone let me know. Nice to see some old faces from t’other place… go.bsky.app/EJFoZ2u

I am born once more, sin-free and smooth, on bluesky

It’s so long since I used Twitter that I can’t remember what I used to post about. Pics of my dog? My dinner? My dog eating his dinner?