Karen Ross, secretary of California Department of Food and Agriculture, discusses the prospects of the agricultural industry of 2025.
Tulare, California – the American agriculture industry is used to overcome obstacles, but 2025 promises to be a particularly intimidating year. The labor shortages, the water restrictions and the threatening threat of the prices are at the forefront of the spirit of each farmer.
“There are always challenges in agriculture, but so many people perform at the same time,” said Karen Ross, secretary of California Department of Food and Agriculture. “I think it happens once at each generation where there are just a bunch of engines.”
In 2023, the agricultural industry won more than half dollars in cash receipts – 267.4 billion dollars for crops and 249.6 billion dollars for animal products. But 86% of farms are “small farms” – which means that they are raw of less than $ 350,000 per year. These are the farms the most feel the pressure.
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“Production agriculture tends to be a marginal company with regard to profit. You talk about an average type of return on investment typical of low to intermediate to the farm is quite typical,” said Roland Fumasi, Responsible for Raboresearch food and agro-industry. “So, all kinds of downward pressure on the markets … Takes up a lot of pressure on the finances of the farm which are already at best marginal anyway during most years.”
In 2023, the agricultural industry won more than half a bill of dollars in cash received – 267.4 billion dollars for crops and 249.6 billion dollars for animal products. (Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post / Getty Images)
From now on, farmers are turning to technology to get help, and at the World AG Exo – the largest agricultural fair in the world – manufacturers wanted to show their latest products.
More than 1,200 agricultural equipment manufacturers went down to the California Central Valley last week in the hope of finding buyers among the more than 100,000 people present. Tulare, in California, has housed Agexpo since 1968, and this year, a fashionable word made waves – ai.
Ai, or artificial intelligence, is used in all kinds of ways. From driving autonomous vehicles to the execution of arduous tasks to the analysis of environmental changes, AI is intended for everything, from the resolution of labor shortages to the increase in crop yield – And farmers are on board.
“We are part of this first wave of AI that allows us to see things that happen on the field,” said Paul Mikesell, founder and CEO of Carbon Robotics. “The farmers are incredibly curious. They are very innovative and inventive, and they therefore obtained what we did right away.”
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Mikesell’s company has generated a lot of buzz around their product, the laserweeder, which uses AI to identify weeds and kill them with a laser. Not only does he cut the physical toll that accompanies weeding, but it also eliminates the need for herbicides.
“It can kill the weeds that humans cannot even see. And we enter them and kill them before flying nutrients to compete with cultures,” added Mikesell.
Farmers turn to technology, including artificial intelligence, to deal with the challenges they expect to face in 2025. (Sandy Huffaker / AFP via / Getty Images)
Another company uses AI to help one of the busiest and most threatened bees in the ecosystem. According to the APIs of the M. Project, the levels of colonies see unprecedented losses, at more than 50%. Some beekeepers indicate a 100%loss of colony, a frightening perspective for almond producers, who count on bees to pollinate their trees.
Beehero uses AI sensors inside the hives to measure everything, the queen’s acoustic signatures to the number of bee visits per minute to give farmers a real time understanding of the coverage and pollination of bees. This provides beekeepers with the information they need to help bees to prosper.
“Beekeepers who work with us, their collapse rates of the colony are 33% lower than the average of the industry,” said Brent Wellington, director of product marketing at Beehero.
John Deere, who commands more than 40% of the market share in the United States agricultural machinery industry, is also on board with AI. The company has developed the 5 ml autonomous tractor which is used for breath spraying, essentially spraying nuts with chemicals to protect trees. Normally, it is a task which must be accomplished at night, in a combination of danger, leading to less than 3 MPH, six to eight times a year – a chore farmer prefers to go to the machines.
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“”The answer was really very positive. The average age of farmers in the United States is about 58 years old, and many of them work 12 and up to 18 hours during peak seasons just to manage their operations due to qualified work shortages, “said Jason Brantley, vice-president of John Deere production systems for small agriculture and lawn.
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The AG industry is evolving, but farmers and manufacturers adopt everything you need to keep their growing crops and producer animals, said Ross.
“It is very important that we continue to look for ways to automate, to relieve the jobs we have,” said Ross. “How do we think the Use of technology, Autonomous vehicles, robotics, such as creating new jobs for existing agricultural workers, as well as attracting young people to bring this energy and creativity to new tools and technologies that are absolutely essential to our survival. “”
