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Artificial Intelligence is becoming a bigger part of our daily lives at a fast pace. What role does this new AI technology play in agriculture. A local beef producer and UT extension agent discuss how AI might shape agriculture moving forward.
Thomas Capps: Artificial Intelligence and agriculture Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I’m Thomas Capps.
Jessee Millsaps: Agriculture is gonna have to include a lot of autonomy and artificial intelligence.
Thomas Capps: Machines and computer technology doing things and even thinking in ways we thought only humans could. That’s the reality we live in now as artificial intelligence or AI, as it’s called is becoming smarter and more practical in society. But what role does aI have an agriculture recent college graduate and beef cattle producer Jesse Millsaps of Moore county says AI is here to stay and can play a pivotal role in the ag industry.
Jesse Millsaps: I see a lot of a lot more autonomy and artificial intelligence coming in agriculture, John Deere and Case IH have both played around with autonomous tractors, all of the processing facilities and factories in this area have went to robots
Thomas Capps: Millsaps sees AI helping solve the labor shortage problem that farmers have faced for years,
Jesse Millsaps: Agriculture is going to have to do something in that route. I feel like with the labor shortages that we have, agriculture is going to have to include a lot of autonomy. It’s just mind boggling. How much information that some of it has instantly brought back to you and I feel like some of that artificial intelligence can be implemented into agriculture systems through any number of different ways just to help operations continue to be efficient
Thomas Capps: Moore county extension agent and County Farm Bureau President Larry Morehead has seen a lot of change in technology and his more than 45 year career in agriculture. He says AI is just the newest example of that.
Larry Moorehead: Technology, we don’t know where it’s going. And I can’t believe some of the things is happening in my lifetime and I’m just seventy years old. But look at how things have changed. My dad he saw a lot of changes. He come up in the Mule Days and stuff and then went tractors. Now things are gonna change. We’re gonna continue to change
Thomas Capps: Technology that can lead agriculture and to the future. For Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I’m Thomas Capps.
