{"id":40839,"date":"2025-01-17T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=40839"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:57:35","slug":"growing-the-future-how-ai-is-reshaping-agriculture-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/department-of-agricultural-and-biological-engineering\/growing-the-future-how-ai-is-reshaping-agriculture-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing the Future: How AI is reshaping agriculture in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fewer than 2% of Americans live on a farm, so the other 98% can be excused for a misperception of farming based on YouTube reruns of \u201cGreen Acres.\u201d Here\u2019s the reality: 21st-century American agriculture is a high-tech enterprise. Since the days of farmer-president Thomas Jefferson, American farmers have relied on cutting-edge technology to provide more nutritious food more affordably for American families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why the University of Florida is pioneering new programs in artificial intelligence to make the Florida farmer more productive. At the same time, these efforts show the way to new career paths for high school and college students who have never considered farming. And we can use AI to protect the environment \u2014 and farmers\u2019 finances \u2014 by using only what fertilizers and pesticides the crops actually need rather than wasting them and, worse, letting them wash into Florida\u2019s precious waterways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/opinion\/2025\/01\/17\/ai-florida-agriculture-will-improve-farming-create-careers-put-better-food-your-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read full story on Tampa Bay Times.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than 2% of Americans live on a farm, so the other 98% can be excused for a misperception of farming based on YouTube reruns of \u201cGreen Acres.\u201d Here\u2019s the reality: 21st-century American agriculture is a high-tech enterprise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5667,"featured_media":40841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[433,9,535,55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025issue","category-department-of-agricultural-and-biological-engineering","category-agritech-solutions","category-magazine","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40845,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40839\/revisions\/40845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}